 In 1984 "Softline" readers named the game the eighth-worst Atari program of 1983, tied with "Gwendolyn".The 1983 sequel, "The Spy Strikes Back", was not written by Zeldin, but Penguin Software founder Mark Pelczarski and Robert Hardy.Both games, along with Penguin's "Thunderbombs", were later released together as "Arcade Album #1" for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and Commodore 64.