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"The river of time moves forever onward, while you stand still." -- The Oracle
Nah, not that kind of wisdom.

Soleau Software made a whole range of family friendly puzzle games or other strategy games all the way to early 2000s. Their website was also still online for at least a decade and a half afterwards.
This weird one right here was developed in 1989 and was their second game. Not much of a game though.

Read the instructions? Good because that was a mouthful and should be summed up.
Your runner, the white emoji, has to locate the plans then the computer core and then the vault where this wisdom is located. All the while the evil agent, the red emoji, is trying to capture your runner. What the instructions slightly gloss over, is that the game goes on and on until you do get those plans and fulfil the rest of the objectives even though the levels advance in a sense. You also need to land on the O tile eventually to unlock the computer core and get the numbers to reach the vault. The instructions do mention all of this but in a little overly wordy way.
You cannot control your runner and the "the great deal of strategy" is basically choosing one of the three openings. The skill I am not sure what is and the rest truly is luck. If you have a visual route for your runner, it does not mean he will actually proceed that way and might as well do something dumb... but also smart. You never know. It is mostly all LUCK.

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That made me laugh. Such a sudden "eff you" escape that leaves the evil agent at a loss so he panics and tries to force his way through walls! Wow!