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The idea of Cruising is to guide your player, a little yellow square, around four different grids as fast as possible while avoiding the computer's square which comes speeding after you. As an extra aid, you are able to interrupt the chaser's path by causing a temporary break in the grid behind you. After completion of the last grid the game returns to the beginning. Each time, one more chaser appears.

The display is adequate for a game of this simplicity and the controls are well positioned and easy to master. The instructions, however, are presented with perhaps an unnecessary display of animated titles and fanfares of weird bleeps and buzzes whereas the game is accompanied by the most modest of clicks and squeaks.

Although the game is simple it demands a high degree of dexterity and is often annoyingly fast. Beginners tend to last only a few seconds. However, with practice, it will keep people happy or frustrated for many hours.