 Author Brett Alan Weiss wrote that "Skeet Shoot" was "a shoddily programmed, graphically primitive game" and said that the poor controls and difficulty levels rendered the game "virtually worthless".A writer for "Atari HQ" called it a mediocre game.Lee Peppas of "ANALOG Computing" remarked that "Atari & Activision have nothing to fear from the graphics on this first release."