Nintedo Composers Discussion

Just recently I begin to love and appreciate more works from Nintendo Composers. Nintendo has several main composers which consists of Koji Kondo, Kazumi Totaka, Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, and Asuka Ohta. I'm sure you have been familiar with these names already. They are the composers that cross my mind when talking about nintendo music.

Kondo is well known for composing the Mario Bros themes and Legend of Zelda music. My favorite of his discography is Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Kazumi Totaka is well known for composing the smooth theme of Animal Crossing. Kenta Nagata is known for his contribution on Legend of Zelda, the Wind Waker, his 138 Dragon Roost Island. for Hajime Wakai and Asuka Ohta, I dont have much things to say except they have done very good music in New Super Mario Bros DS.

Perhaps this is my prejudice, but I feel that Nintendo is quite strict when releasing album for their composers. While Kondo's compositions have been released numerously in the past (mario series, zelda), none of other composers have their own single albums released. I'm really looking forward for the future release of Animal Crossing though!

What do you say about these composers? Hope this could lead into good discussion. List arranged alphabetically.

-Akito Nakamura
-Asuka Ohta (The New Super Mario Bros DS)
-Dan Miyakawa (Kirby Superstar)
-Einosuke Nagao (Kirby Ghost Trap)
-Hajime Hirasawa (star Fox)
-Hajime Wakai (The New Super Mario Bros DS, Pikmin)
-Hirokazu Ando (Kirby Series)
-Hirokozu Tanaka (Balloon Fight, Mario Paint)
-Hironobu Yahata, (Mario Party 7)
-Ichiro Shimakura (Mario Party 3, and 4. Mario Party 7 sound producer)
-Jun Ishikawa (Kirby Series)
-Kazumi Totaka (Animal Crossing (K.K Music), Mario Paint)
-Keiichi Suzuki
-Ken Kojima (Red Alarm)
-Kenji Yamamoto (Metroid Prime)
-Kenta Nagata, (Animal Crossing, Hours musics)
-Koji Kondo (Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda Series)
-Kozue Ishikawa (Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening)
-Mariko Nanba (Yoshi Topsy Turvy)
-Masaru Setsumaru, (Yoshi Topsy Turvy)
-Masaru Tajima (Sawaru made in Mario)
-Masami Yone (Kirby Tilt n' Tumble)
-Minako Hamano (Link's Awakening)
-Mitsuhiko Takano (Legend of Zelda: the Minish Cap)
-Ryoji Yoshitomi (Mario Paint)
-Ryoue Takagi (Kirby's Block Ball's)
-Shinobu Tanaka (Animal Crossing, Mario Kart Double Dash!!)
-Shinya Ohtouge, (Mario Party 7)
-Sukezo Ouyama (Kirby's Block Ball's)
-Soyo Oka (Super Mario Kart)
-Taro Bando (F-ZERO X Expansion Kit)
-Takuya Maekawa (Kirby Tilt n' Tumble)
-Tatsuyuki Maeda, (Yoshi Topsy Turvy)
-Toru Minegishi (Animal Crossing)
-Yuji Tsujiyoko (Fire Emblem)
-Yuichi Ozaki (Kirby Tilt n' Tumble)
-Yumiko Kanki (F-ZERO)



*Motoi Sakuraba (Mario Tennis)
*Yoko Shimomura (Mario RPG)
*Yasunori Mitsuda (Mario Party 1, partly Mario Party 2 as well)

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@dhsu
I familiar with Ando (Kirby?), but Ishikawa? Which game he was working on?

@darkcomet
Probably because Totaka （おたか）might be mistaken for "Todaka"　（とだか）
the た (ta) and　だ　(da) might be mistranslated in that game. But I'm sure his name written in kanji, such mistranslation actually supposed not to happen.

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Oh thanks for noticing that. Here are several composers which are yet to be discussed:
-Einosuke Nagao
-Dan Miyakawa
-Toru Minegishi
-Akito Nakamura
-Kozue Ishikawa
-Minako Hamano
-Shinobu Tanaka
-Hirokozu Tanaka
-Ryoji Yoshitomi
-Tatsuyuki Maeda,
-Masaru Setsumaru,
-Mariko Nanba

They are found mostly in gamerips. I salute to people who could identify their names in the game.

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He's the composer of Balloon fight?! totally a crime I dont put it on the list. Balloon fight is the most memorable (and the hardest) game I ever play in the nes. I also love the theme of balloon flight very much.

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Personally I dont enjoy Fire emblem music too much, but I salute the composer, considering fire emblem contains around 200 music. I wonder how much time it takes to complete the scores.

Oh yeah, is mother series also considered as nintendo games?

I was speaking idiomatically.

In the future I will just add the link to tracks done by those composers individually. Oh yeah, I miss the name for composer of Pikmin, Legend of Zelda Link's awakening, Oracle of Season & Ages, and minish cap. Anyone could recall the names?

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ok, fixed.

Just my opinion, but I think Koji Kondo and Kazumi Totaka style really similar to each other. Or is that happened because Nintendo's games policy which only release games for adult-friendly segment? I have listened Animal crossing, Legend of Zelda, and many other franchises, they all have general similarities of being simple and melodious, and most are fillers. It felt very different if we compare to other games such as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Well, perhaps that what distinguish nintendo music from other game musics.

My favorite discography of Koji Kondo is obviously LoZ:OoT OST. I love all of the music. The Hyrule Symphony [ZMCX-102] is my most favorite of LoZ arrangement album.

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I just have realized that the title of this thread is a typo >_>, could someone fix the title?

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Whoops, I really forget about that game. Who is the composer of Paper Mario?

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For tetris (gameboy version?), I think there is no VGM composer, because all the songs used are originally folk songs.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

* The theme tune used in the Game Boy edition of Tetris (Music A) has become very widely known, to the point that it is the theme song of level 20 of Tetris DS, even though that level is based on the NES version of Tetris. It is a Russian folk tune called "Korobeiniki" or "Korobeyniki."
* Music A in the NES version is "Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy," a tune noted to be scene 14c of act two of The Nutcracker, which was composed by Tchaikovsky.
* Music B in the Tengen version is the Kalinka, a famous Russian song written by Ivan Petrovich Larionov
* Music C in the Game Boy version is an arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite No. 3 In B Minor, BWV 814, IV. Menuett - Trio.

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