Golden Axe: The Duel/Production credits
From Sega Retro
Initials being wrong
It's known S.Makino is Taku Makino, and mistakenly using S instead of a T could be Taku kanji can also be read as Suguru (thanks Chimes!)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8D%93#Japanese
But, I wonder if that's not the only incorrect name. A.Toshikawa is a complete unknown, and yet seems to be the lead programmer here. Granted, I think they're a Team Shinobi/Golden Axe veteran (TSI in Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars, TOPI in Shinobi, TOS. in Altered Beast, TOSHI in Golden Axe, all right under lead programmer Kenichi Hokari.
I think the A could be a mistake because there's a well-known Toshikawa from gaming, Noriaki Toshikawa (利川哲章), whose name Noriaki is a pretty uncommon reading of those characters 哲章. More commonly it's read as Tetsufumi, Tetsuaki, Akifumi or Akinori. Noriaki joined Koei at some point in the late 80's and helped program Winning Post 3, Saiyuki: Journey West and Crimson Sea. Nicolaas Hamman (talk) 11:41, 9 December 2024 (GMT+2)