(辻横 由佳
Tsujiyoko Yuka) is a
Japanese video game music composer for
Nintendo. She is the music composer for the
Fire Emblem video game franchise, which was not released outside
Japan until
2003, and several other
Intelligent Systems developed games. She also scored the
Super Scope games
Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge and
Battle Clash,
Paper Mario and its sequel
The Thousand-Year Door, and part of
Tetris Attack. She was born
Yuka Baba in
Uji,
Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Tsujiyoko studied piano when she was in a preschool. She composed her first original composition when she was in high school, and that was her assignment for her music class. Tsujiyoko attended Osaka Electric Communications Junior College, and she majored in electronic engineering. Before she entered Intelligent Systems (a second-party video game developer for
Nintendo), Tsujiyoko worked as a computer programmer for a productivity (or non-entertainment) software company. The largest game soundtrack she composed was for the
emulation-popular
Super Famicom game
Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu, composed of 114 tracks. She works at Intelligent Systems part time, and formerly worked there full time. She was first known in the United States for scoring
Paper Mario, with Taishi Senda. She left Intelligent Systems as full time employee after scoring
Paper Mario. Tsujiyoko was inspired by her favorite artist
Pat Metheny. Her mentor is
Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka.
Tsujiyoko did not score
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, but she only supervised the score. Under Tsujiyoko's supervision, the game was scored by Saki Haruyama, Yoshihiko Kitamura, and Yoshito Hirano. However, Tsujiyoko was actively involved in scoring
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.
