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Why, why, why can nobody ever get it right? How many times have you bought a game that told you to use a joystick in port two when it should be in port one? Mastertronic have surpassed themselves this time. Joystick in port 0 it says. Perhaps I'm nit-picking, but is it too much to ask for correct instructions?

Fortunately, that's about the only thing wrong with this game. It's not the most original game I've ever seen - it reminds me of about four or five others all mixed together, but it is very well done.

You are Super Strawberry. It's getting round to the time of year for picking cherries and, as everybody knows, cherry picking is the kind of job strawberries were born for. Out to stop you, for reasons best known to themselves are the Acid Apple Gang.

Tutti Frutti is a bit like a cross between Pacman and Jack Attack. On the opening level, it's simply a case of munching, sorry, picking the cherries as fast as you can without getting caught by the rotten apples. If things get tough you can drop strawberries on their heads by munching the maze immediately underneath them (the strawberries that is, life gets confusing with all this fruit around!).

On level 2, you have to munch the maze walls as well as the cherries. The walls look like they're made from strawberry jam so this shouldn't prove too unpleasant. Level 3 has you squashing the bad apples by pushing blocks off the wall. From there on up it's variations on the same fruity theme.

As I said, not the most original game in the world, but good fun all the same. As well as good, clean graphics, the author's managed to squeeze a respectable tune out of the C16's TED chip. Definitely worth buying if you missed out on a munchman derivative last Christmas.