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Trumbel Bullard had a big problem. He needs somebody young and attractive to die while playing Tracker, otherwise the telecast ratings would surely dip below seventy percent for the fourth successive week, causing all advertising revenues from the Fringe Worlds Federation to be lost. The Imperial Prator would not be pleased!

You are Tallis, a female Novenian with a mission, and just what Bullard has been looking for, or so he thinks. Since their abortive attempt to destroy the Stargliders on Novenia, the Ergons have been the race most feared by the Novenians.

Tracker, the computer game, begins as you're about to take on the might of Centrepoint. Your Skimmer's display shows a plan view of the seven interconnected hexagonal sectors that make up the 'playing arena'. The Centrepoint computer sticks out like an ugly growth in the centre of the central sector. Each sector is made up of numerous maze-like trackways which are connected by 'nodes'.

Above the Skimmer's cockpit displays, you can see out onto the trackway or node through which you're flying.

As you get further into Tracker, it becomes clear that an immense amount of thought and planning went into the ST version to carefully balance all the game variables enabling you to play hundreds of games, each completely different from the last.

If you're after a first rate strategy/arcade game which can be played in colour or on a monochrome monitor, and cracked using countless different strategies, all of them hard to pull off, then make tracks for this one.