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Energy is an early Japanese HuCard. It seems to revolve around a post apocalyptic future of some sort, with the main character having come type of psi powers. 

From what I have seen of the game, you must travel through - 'flick scrolling' - screens searching for hidden people and messages, defeating mutants and 'level' bosses on the way, gaining ever increasing mental powers. 

The graphics are really poor, like a NES or Famicom game, and the flick scrolling reminds me of my days with my hunble 48k spectrum (not my beefy 128k though ;) 
Sound fares little better, with bleeps and bloops and tinny effects accompanying you. 

It's a pity that I cannot understand a word of Japanese, because it looks like it could have been an alright game - as it is I just jump around all over the place and shoot stuff!! - the adventure aspect could be fine as far as I know. 

One thing I have found, or to be more precise - haven't, is the lack of a dumped ROM image on the 'net. With all my other HuCard based games, I have downloaded a ROM so that I can get screengrabs (hence the lack of them here). I don't have ROMs that I don't own the original for though, that's illegal, and I would rather buy the original. I f anyone has a dump of this game, I would appreciate you sending me a copy. Thanks. 

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                          This page and review by J.Snowdon 1998. All images are my own.