Nintedo Composers Discussion

My addition to the list: Ken Kojima. He's responsible for the soundtracks to a few Virtual Boy games developed by T&E Soft, most notably Red Alarm. Awesome, bizarre music that game has.

Originally Posted by Dhsu

Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando are where it's at.

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Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando are where it's at.

HAL sound staff for the fucking win. And not just the Kirby series; Arcana has an excellent soundtrack and Alcahest and Hyper Zone are pretty good too.

All Kirby games but two were worked on by Ishikawa or Ando (or both). Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble was done by Takuya Maekawa, Yuichi Ozaki, and Masami Yone, but that game's music is terrible so we can disregard it. Kirby's Block Ball's music was done by Sukezo Ouyama and Ryoue Takagi. Bloody fantastic job they did too; KBB has my favorite GB/GBC soundtrack in the Kirby series. Ouyama has no credits anywhere else, but Takagi has a rather eclectic group of other soundtracks worked on: Resident Evil Zero, Dragon Quest VIII (not Nintendo, clearly), and the GBA remake of FFIV.

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

Could Keiichi Suzuki be considered a "Nintendo" composer? I was never really clear that, especially since Hirokozu Tanaka appears to have contributed as well.

Depends on how far we're extending the definition of "Nintendo composer." We seem to be counting second-party developers since the Kirby series is on the list, so Ape, Inc. and Mother 1/2 seem to fall under the umbrella.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Dhsu

HAL and Ape, along with Intelligent Systems, don't really fall under the 2nd party category as they're all in-house development teams.

Intelligent Systems is in-house, but HAL is still second-party unless Nintendo acquired them without informing me. They started off as an MSX developer, actually. Probably their best known MSX games are the first two games in the Eggerland series, whose most famous member is Adventures of Lolo for the NES.

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Originally Posted by WarpStar

I'm not so sure. There weren't ever any credits given for Kirby's Pinball Land, so I don't really know if either of them were involved with that game.

The rip I have for Kirby's Pinball Land is tagged as being composed by Jun Ishikawa, although now that you mention it, I don't recall ever coming across credits in KPL. The game just loops after you beat Board 4 if I remember correctly (if).

Originally Posted by WarpStar

And Kirby & the Amazing Mirror's credits list Hironobu Inagaki and Atsuyoshi Isemura under Sound.

Hmm, that's the fault of the GSF set, which credits Ishikawa. Checking out the credits at MobyGames, you are indeed correct. Thanks.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.