It was ported to the Master System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum platforms in the following year.

They are Lucy's pets, and must travel through six stages set in real locations, though everything else in the game is very cartoonish, reminiscent of Tex Avery.

Along with a varied set of enemies (all oddball cartoonlike characters) each level has a number of other obstacles that can inflict damage on the player(s).

[4][5] In Japan, Game Machine listed Dynamite Düx on their February 15, 1989 issue as being the third most-successful table arcade unit of the month.

"[1] Sinclair User reviewed the arcade game and gave it a rating of 9 out of 10, describing it as an entertaining pseudo-3D scroller with "a surreal sense of the ridiculous.

"[7] Sinclair User later gave it the 1988 award for Most Original Game of the Year, calling it "a cutsie, surreal job that'll be tickling your ribs well into '89.

[9] In a retrospective overview of the arcade game, Kurt Kalata of Hardcore Gaming 101 noted that, in contrast to the "dark and gritty rampages of violence" in other beat 'em ups (such as Double Dragon, Final Fight, Golden Axe and Streets of Rage), Dynamite Dux instead had a more light-hearted, "sillier" direction, stating "Dynamite Dux is to Double Dragon as TwinBee is to Xevious."

Bean also appears in AM2's Sega Saturn fighting game Fighters Megamix, and as a minor character in Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog series.