[6] Pressing the joystick button briefly stuns the enemies so they don't move and can be passed through by the player (analogous to "jumps" in Amidar).

[3] Arti Haroutunian wrote Kid Grid in two months using the Atari Assembler Editor cartridge.

Tronix ran magazine adverts promoting both Kid Grid and another game by Haroutunian, Juice!, mentioning him by name.

"[9] David H. Ahl criticized the simplistic sound effects, but concluded, "All in all, we found Kid Grid to be one of the most playable and addictive games around.

"[3] In a "C−" review, Addison Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984 wrote, "the game's utter simplicity works against it after repeated play.