It was also the winner of a "Crash" Reader's Award for "Best Strategy and Simulation". The magazine commented positively on the graphics, partly because the visual style was "suited to a game set in the roaring twenties"; this was despite "Mugsy" having to take place before 1919, since that is when its sequel, "Mugsy's Revenge", begins. A sequel, "Mugsy's Revenge" was published two years later, and ported to the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. Russel Comte, a leading member of the design team, went on to work as an artist on a number of other significant computer game titles.