"Castlevania" was directed and programmed by Hitoshi Akamatsu for the Family Computer Disk System in 1986. The game's staff roll features names taken from famous horror movie icons, with Akamatsu being credited as 'Trans Fishers', a reference to film director Terence Fisher. This is possibly because Konami did not allow the use of real names at the time in order to prevent other companies from hiring people who worked for them. An admirer of cinema, Akamatsu approached projects with a "film director's eye", and said the visuals and music for "Castlevania" were "made by people who consciously wanted to do something cinematic". The protagonist Simon Belmont uses a whip because Akamatsu liked "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and it also matched the world he wanted to create. After the success of "Castlevania", it was released in cartridge format for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) as one of its first major platform games, and also as part of an unofficial second wave of video games for the system. The international name of "Castlevania" was the result of Konami of America senior vice president Emil Heidkamp's discomfort with the religious connotations of the Japanese title, "Akumajō Dracula", which he believed translated as "Dracula Satanic Castle." Because of Nintendo of America's censorship policies at the time, most instances of blood, nudity and religious imagery were removed or edited in early "Castlevania" games.