NES

Adventure Island

This is one of the many games that appears to be a co-development project between Hudson Soft Company, Ltd., Susumu Matsushita and Light & Shadows, Inc. (see covers). Does anyone know more about the relationship between the three?

Susumu Matsushita is a character designer.

Should it be an entity or does it refer to an individual person too?

Susumu Matsushita is a person, his (current) company is Susumu Matsushita Enterprise.

Susumu Matsushita writes:

"I work as an illustrator, and The Shadows' music has had such a great influence in my life that I find that I often try to capture the spirit of their music as much as possible in my pictures and I am grateful to them for this inspiration. My company is called "Light and Shadows Inc." but of course there is no connection to The Shadows."

His current company is called Susumu Matsushita Enterprise, so this is an earlier effort. We can add Light and Shadows as package design for Adventure Island.

Company added, but with the name as shown on the Spanish NES cart (ampersand). Also, it's the only cover art item where it's shown, so I only added it there.