Did Bullfrog Productions' staff obey regularly? I bet Molyneux played a lot of boxyboy.
I'm serious, the only console that the icon of Simon Hunter could possibly be is the PC Engine... And the game was made in 1989 so it's a possibility.
Ha! Amazing, now I cannot UNSEE a PCE! But the controller, what's up with that?
We must investigate further, because, quite honestly, if that's not a PCE, then I want to know what the heck it is!
STATUS: I fear this will turn out to be an obscure EuroGadget (like a Pachinko controller for an AMIGA, or a Speccy, or a CD32 prototype, or a Gizmondorola handheld (prototype, again)...)