In the latter, the player controls a character who runs along the top of a train, performing acrobatic leaps between the cars.

The player drives a car attempting to—at places where the tracks and road intersect—jump through boxcars and to steal the gold contained within.

In the third segment the overhead maze returns, but the player now controls the train, picking up gold along the tracks while avoiding vehicles on the road.

Reviewing the Atari translation for Softline, Marcia and Gary Rose concluded, "Track Attack is an original game that makes good use of the cops and robbers theme, an area that has sadly been overlooked in these times of extraterrestrial warfare and adventure.

"[4] In a "D+" review, Addison Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984 called the controls "somewhat crazy" and found there to be too many random factors in the game.