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A curious dose of Spanish arcadia that's on the whole slightly more rewarding than a week's vacation in Majorca. Although clearly a distant cousin of Jetpac, Tuneles maintains its credibility by framing the action in a format not entirely dissimilar to Fantasy's Ziggy hit, The Pyramid.

Screens of uglies alternate with a display of inter-locking cells which reveal your current game position. The ultimate aim of the game is to travel to the final cell located in the upper left hand corner of the screen. Exactly what this display represents though is unclear, as the "instrucciones" are in an unrepentant Spanish tongue (luckily the gameplay is easy enough to suss out).

Initially I thought it might depict a massive starship but that seems a little too obvious. More likely its network of ghastly coastal resorts with the final room no doubt containing a much-needed medi-kit and a return ticket home!

Lending support to this theory are the denizens of the cells who are both fiendish and Spanish in appearance. There's a swarm of bearded waiters, plates of paella, fly sprays and hungry crabs (which I'm told are rife in Benidorm). The assault is unrelenting. Thankfully, there's a full range of familiar joystick options to help you get home.