The following is a list of computer and video game musicians, those who have worked in the

video game industry The video game industry encompasses the development, marketing, and monetization of video games. The industry encompasses dozens of job disciplines and thousands of jobs worldwide. The video game industry has grown from niches to mainstrea ...

to produce

video game soundtracks Video game music (or VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as programmable sound generators (PSG) or FM synthesis chips. These limitations have led to ...

or otherwise contribute musically. A broader list of major figures in the video game industry is also available. For a full article, see

video game music Video game music (or VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as programmable sound generators (PSG) or FM synthesis chips. These limitations have led t ...

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Rod Abernethy Rod Abernethy is a performing songwriter, guitarist, and composer. His music has been used as scores for EA, Midway, Vivendi, Universal, Sony, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Paramount, Disney, THQ, Activision, Konami, Majesco Entertainment, NC Soft, Namco ...

– ''The Hobbit'', ''Star Trek: Legacy'', ''King Arthur'', '' Rise of the Kasai'', ''Blazing Angels'', ''Marvel Universe'', ''The Gauntlet'', ''The Sims Bustin' Out'' *

Masamichi Amano is a Japanese music composer, arranger and conductor. He studied at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo and completed master's degree in 1982. Biography He graduated from Akita Minami High School and went on to study at Kunitachi College of ...

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Quest 64 ''Quest 64'' (''Holy Magic Century'' in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, in Japan) is a role-playing video game developed by Imagineer for the Nintendo 64. It was released in North America in June 1998 by THQ, Europe in September 1998 by Kon ...

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Mega Man X3 ''Mega Man X3'' (stylized as ''MEGA MAN X³''), known as in Japan, is a video game released by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The game was originally released in Japan on December 1, 1995, and later in North American ...

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Breath of Fire III ''Breath of Fire III'' is a role-playing video game developed and published by Capcom originally for the PlayStation (console), PlayStation console as part of the ''Breath of Fire'' series. Initially released in Japan on September 11, 1997, the g ...

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Breath of Fire IV ''Breath of Fire IV'' is a role-playing video game developed by Capcom, and is the fourth game in the ''Breath of Fire'' series. It was originally released for the PlayStation home console in Japan and North America in 2000, and Europe in 2001. T ...

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Noriyuki Asakura is a Japanese composer and vocalist, best known for composing the soundtracks to the anime series ''Rurouni Kenshin'' and the video game franchises ''Tenchu'' and '' Way of the Samurai''. He is well known for combining traditional Japanese mus ...

– '' Tenchu: Stealth Assassins'', '' Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins'', '' Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven'', ''

Way of the Samurai ''Way of the Samurai'', known in Japan as , is a PlayStation 2 action-adventure game developed by Acquire and released in 2002. Set in 19th century Japan, the player takes on the role of a rōnin who wanders into a remote village and becomes i ...

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Half-Life Half-life (symbol ) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value. The term is commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay or how long stable at ...

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Half-Life 2 ''Half-Life 2'' is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed by Valve Corporation, Valve. It was published by Valve through its distribution service Steam (service), Steam. Like the original ''Half-Life (video game), Half-Life'' (1998), ''Half- ...

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Portal Portal often refers to: * Portal (architecture), an opening in a wall of a building, gate or fortification, or the extremities (ends) of a tunnel Portal may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Gaming * ''Portal'' (series), two video games ...

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Clint Bajakian Clint Bajakian (born 1962) is an American video game composer and musician. Biography Bajakian was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He was linked with music since age of eight. In middle school, Bajakian played in marching bands, and also pla ...

– '' Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast'', '' Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy'', '' Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'' *

Lorne Balfe Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer and record producer of film, television, and video game scores. A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, Balfe is known for his composing music for big-budget films like ...

– '' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'', '' Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure'', '' Assassin's Creed: Revelations'', '' Skylanders: Giants'', ''

Assassin's Creed III ''Assassin's Creed III'' is a 2012 action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and Microsoft Windows. It is the fifth major installment in the ''Assassin's Creed'' serie ...

'', '' Beyond: Two Souls'' *

Danny Baranowsky Danny Baranowsky (born April 5, 1984), also known as Danny B or by the company name dB Soundworks, is an American electronic music composer, composing music mainly for indie films and indie games. He founded dB Soundworks to sell and promote his ...

– '' Super Meat Boy'', '' Canabalt'', ''

Crypt of the Necrodancer ''Crypt of the NecroDancer'' is a roguelike rhythm video game developed and published by Canadian independent game studio Brace Yourself Games. The game takes fundamental elements of a roguelike dungeon exploration game and adds a beat-matching ...

'' and '' The Binding of Isaac'' * Stephen Barton – '' Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'', ''

Titanfall ''Titanfall'' is a series of video games that mainly feature first-person shooter games. The series was created by Respawn Entertainment and debuted on Xbox and Microsoft Windows; it has expanded to other consoles and platforms. Gameplay In ''T ...

'' series, '' Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order'' * Joe Basquez – ''

Ultima Online ''Ultima Online'' (''UO'') is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released on September 24, 1997 by Origin Systems. Set in the '' Ultima'' universe, it is known for its extensive player versus player combat system. ...

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Jean Baudlot Jean Baudlot (16 February 1947 – 24 March 2021) was a French music composer, most notable for composing music for videogames in the 1980s and 1990s and collaborations with Richard Clayderman, Nicolas de Angelis, Michèle Torr and Joe Dassin. H ...

– ''Bio Challenge'', '' Bad Dudes'', '' Future Wars'', ''Castle Warrior'', '' Beach Volley'', '' Snow Brothers'', ''

Operation Stealth ''Operation Stealth'', also known as ''James Bond 007: The Stealth Affair'' in the United States, is an adventure game from Delphine Software International, released in 1990. The game is mainly the work of Paul Cuisset (programming) and Jean Baud ...

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Cruise for a Corpse ''Cruise for a Corpse'' (orig. ''Croisière pour un cadavre'') is an adventure game from Delphine Software International, made for the Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC. Overview The game is designed as a murder investigation. The player assumed the r ...

'', '' Flashback: The Quest for Identity'' *

Stephen Baysted Stephen Baysted (born January 1969 in London, England), is a British composer of film, television and video game music. He is known for composing music for racing simulator video games. Works ;Video games *GTR – FIA GT Racing Game (2005) * ...

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Project Cars ''Project CARS'' is a racing video game series developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The franchise was introduced in 2015 and received a sequel in 2017, followed by ''Project CARS 3'' in 2020. Games ...

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Robin Beanland Robin Beanland is a British composer of video game music, composing music for numerous Rare titles, such as the ''Killer Instinct'' franchise, '' Conker's Bad Fur Day'' (which he also co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Seavor), and many oth ...

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Killer Instinct ''Killer Instinct'' is a series of fighting video games originally created by Rare and published by Midway, Nintendo, and Microsoft Studios. The original ''Killer Instinct'' was released for arcades in 1994; the game was then released for ...

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Conker's Bad Fur Day ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' is a 2001 platform game developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64. The game follows Conker, a greedy, hard-drinking red squirrel who must return home to his girlfriend. Most of the game requires the player ...

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Sea of Thieves ''Sea of Thieves'' is a 2018 action-adventure game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Studios. The player assumes the role of a pirate who completes voyages from different trading companies. The multiplayer game sees players explore ...

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Ratchet and Clank ''Ratchet & Clank'' is a series of action platformer and third-person shooter video games. The franchise was created and developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation consoles, such as PlayStation ...

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Daniel Bernstein Daniel Bernstein is a composer for video games and movies. Born in Leningrad in the Soviet Union (now part of Russia), he received a B.S. in computer science and an M.A. in music composition from the University of Virginia. Bernstein started in ga ...

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Claw A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds). Some invertebrates such as beetles and spiders have somewhat similar fine, hooked structures at the end of the leg or tarsus ...

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Teddy Blass Teddy Blass (born April 16, 1984 in Dallas) is an American film composer and record producer. Biography Teddy Blass was born in Dallas, Texas. He studied music throughout his youth, and went on to receive degrees in Music Production and Digital ...

– ''Chain Shooter'', ''Fortune's Prime'' *

Alexander Brandon Alexander Brandon (also known as Siren in the demoscene and tracker community) is an American musician, former member of Straylight Productions, who composed music mostly for games produced by Epic Games, or games based on Epic technology, inc ...

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Unreal Unreal may refer to: Books and TV * ''Unreal'' (short story collection), a 1985 book of short stories by Paul Jennings * ''Unreal'' (TV series), a 2015 television drama series on Lifetime Computing and games * ''Unreal'' (video game series), ...

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Unreal Tournament ''Unreal Tournament'' is a first-person arena shooter video game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. The second installment in the '' Unreal'' series, it was first published by GT Interactive in 1999 for Microsoft Windows, and late ...

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Deus Ex ''Deus Ex'' is a series of role-playing video games, set during the mid 21st century. Focusing on the conflict between secretive factions who wish to control the world by proxy, and the effects of transhumanistic attitudes and technologies in a ...

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Alpha Protocol ''Alpha Protocol'' is a 2010 action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Sega. The player assumes control of agent Michael Thorton, a new recruit at a clandestine United States agency called Alpha Protocol, whic ...

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Unreal 2 ''Unreal II: The Awakening'' is a first-person shooter video game developed by Legend Entertainment and published by Infogrames under the Atari brand for Microsoft Windows, the game was later ported to Microsoft's Xbox console by Tantalus. I ...

'', '' Deus Ex: Invisible War'', '' Battlestar Galactica'', '' Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer'', ''

Bejeweled 3 ''Bejeweled 3'' is a tile-matching puzzle video game developed and published by PopCap Games. It is the fifth game in the ''Bejeweled'' series following '' Bejeweled Blitz'' and succeeds ''Bejeweled 2'' as the latest mainline title in the ''Be ...

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Allister Brimble Allister Brimble is a British video game music composer. He began composing music and sound effects for the video game industry in the mid-1980s. He also produced various audio tracks, as "Brimble's Beats", that were distributed on cover disks ...

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Alien Breed ''Alien Breed'' is a series of top-down science fiction shoot 'em up video games developed by Team17 primarily for the Amiga in the 1990s, heavily inspired by the ''Alien'' films and featuring game play reminiscent of the classic arcade game Ga ...

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Driver 2 ''Driver 2: Back on the Streets'' (named ''Driver 2: The Wheelman Is Back'' in North America) is a 2000 action driving video game and the second installment of the '' Driver'' series. It was developed by Reflections Interactive and published by ...

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 ''RollerCoaster Tycoon 2'' is a 2002 construction and management simulation game developed by Chris Sawyer and published by Infogrames Interactive. Released in October 2002 as the sequel to ''RollerCoaster Tycoon'', the game simulates the manage ...

'' * Russell Brower – World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm,

Diablo III ''Diablo III'' is a hack-and-slash action role-playing game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment as the third installment in the ''Diablo'' franchise. It was released for Microsoft Windows and OS X in May 2012, PlayStation 3 and Xb ...

Starcraft 2 ''StarCraft II'' is a military science fiction video game created by Blizzard Entertainment as a sequel to the successful ''StarCraft'' video game released in 1998. Set in a fictional future, the game centers on a galactic struggle for dominance ...

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Return to Castle Wolfenstein ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein'' is a first-person shooter video game published by Activision, released on November 19, 2001, for Microsoft Windows and subsequently for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Linux and Macintosh. The game serves as a reboot of the ...

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' is a series of military tactical shooter video games published by Ubisoft. In the series, the player is in charge of a fictional, newly conceived squad of U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers from Delta Company, 1st Ba ...

'', '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder'', '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm'', ''

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six'' (often shortened to ''Rainbow Six'') is a tactical first-person shooter video game franchise by Ubisoft, based on the novel ''Rainbow Six'' by American author Tom Clancy. Critically and commercially successful, the ...

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David Buckley David Buckley (born 7 June 1976) is a British composer of film and television scores, based in Santa Monica, California. Career Born in London in 1976, Buckley's first involvement with film music was as a cathedral choirboy performing on Pe ...

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Shrek Forever After (video game) ''Shrek Forever After'' (also known as ''Shrek 4'', and ''Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter'') is an action-adventure video game based on the film of the same name. It was released on May 18, 2010, in North America. It is the fourth video ...

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Sean Callery Sean Callery (born 1964) is an American musician and composer, best known for composing the music for the action/drama '' 24'' and the Marvel adaptation ''Jessica Jones''. Other projects include the 2004 James Bond video game, '' James Bond 007: ...

– '' James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing'', '' 24: The Game'' *

Pedro Macedo Camacho Pedro Macedo Camacho is a Portuguese composer of classical music as well as film and video game scores. He is known for his Requiem to Inês de Castro, his score for ''Star Citizen'' and for his contribution to World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. Bi ...

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Star Citizen Logo Cloud Imperium Games ''Star Citizen'' is an in-development multiplayer, space trading and combat simulation game. The game is being developed and published by Cloud Imperium Games for Microsoft Windows. An extended retry of unrealized plans ...

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Independent Games Festival The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the largest annual gathering of the independent video game industry. Originally founded in 1998 to promote independent video game developers, ...

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Gamecock A cockfight is a blood sport, held in a ring called a cockpit. The history of raising fowl for fighting goes back 6,000 years. The first documented use of the ''word'' gamecock, denoting use of the cock as to a "game", a sport, pastime or ente ...

Codemasters The Codemasters Software Company Limited (trade name: Codemasters) is a British video game developer based in Southam, England, which is a subsidiary of American corporation Electronic Arts. Founded by brothers Richard and David Darling in Oct ...

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A Vampyre Story ''A Vampyre Story'' is a 2008 point-and-click adventure game developed by Autumn Moon Entertainment for Windows, published by Crimson Cow. The game is set in Europe during the 1890s, and follows a young female opera singer turned vampire as she ...

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Autumn Moon Entertainment Autumn Moon Entertainment is an independent computer game developer founded in 2002 by Bill Tiller. The company specializes in traditional graphic adventure games in the style of the LucasArts classics, particularly '' The Curse of Monkey Island'' ...

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Driver 3 ''Driver 3'' (stylized as ''DRIV3R'') is a 2004 action-adventure game, the third installment in the ''Driver'' series. It was developed by Reflections Interactive, published by Atari, and released on PlayStation 2, Xbox and mobile phones in ...

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Reservoir Dogs (video game) ''Reservoir Dogs'' is a 2006 third-person shooter video game based on the Quentin Tarantino film of the same name. It garnered mostly low reviews and caused minor controversies for its heavy violence, being banned in Germany, Australia and New Z ...

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Driver 76 ''Driver '76'' is a video game for the PlayStation Portable, which was released on 8 May 2007 in the US, and on 11 May 2007 in the EU. The game is a prequel to '' Driver: Parallel Lines'', and is set two years prior. It is the first and only gam ...

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Far Cry 2 ''Far Cry 2'' is a 2008 first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A top-down shooter version for mobile phones was developed and published by Gameloft. It is th ...

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Killzone 2 ''Killzone 2'' is a 2009 first-person shooter developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is the second main installment in the ''Killzone'' series, following 2004's '' Killzone''. Simil ...

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Split/Second ''Split/Second'' (released in Europe as ''Split/Second: Velocity'') is an racing video game developed by Black Rock Studio and published by Disney Interactive Studios for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Announced on 11 March 2009, ...

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The Secret World ''The Secret World'' is a massively multiplayer online role-playing video game set in a modern-day real world under attack from occult forces. Ragnar Tørnquist led development of the initial game for Funcom. ''The Secret World'' uses a subsc ...

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Infamous First Light ''Infamous First Light'' is an action-adventure video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 4. The game was announced at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo and was released dig ...

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Infamous Second Son ''Infamous Second Son'' (stylized as ''inFAMOUS Second Son'') is a 2014 action-adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. The standalone sequel to the 2011 video game ...

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Road Rash 3D ''Road Rash 3D'' is a racing video game developed and published by Electronic Arts exclusively for the PlayStation. Gameplay The game plays similarly to previous games developed in the '' Road Rash'' series, which involves the player racing thei ...

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NHL 2002 ''NHL 2002'' is a video game released by EA Sports in 2001. It is the predecessor to ''NHL 2003''. The game's cover man is Pittsburgh Penguins superstar and owner Mario Lemieux, who had just made a comeback after being retired for three and a half ...

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Battles of Prince of Persia ''Battles of Prince of Persia'' is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for the Nintendo DS on December 6, 2005. It is a spin-off of the ''Prince of Persia'' series, and sees players assuming the ro ...

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Jun Chikuma is a Japanese music composer and musician. She is most known for her various contributions to the ''Bomberman'' series, amongst other video game soundtracks. She has studied ney performance and Tunisian style composition under professors Slah ...

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Faxanadu is an action role-playing platform video game developed by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The name was licensed by computer game developer Nihon Falcom ("Falcom") and was developed and released in Japan by Hudson Soft for the ...

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Bomberman is a video game franchise originally developed by Hudson Soft and currently owned by Konami. The original game, also known as ''Bakudan Otoko'' (''爆弾男''), was released in Japan in July 1983 and has since spawned multiple sequels and sp ...

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Jamie Christopherson Jamie Christopherson is an American musician who has contributed scores to a number of popular films and video games, including the movie '' The Crow: Wicked Prayer'', and the games '' Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams'' and '' Metal Gear Rising: Revengean ...

– '' Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle'', ''

Lost Planet ''Lost Planet'' is a video game series of third-person shooters published by Capcom. The series follows a number of protagonists on E.D.N III, a planet in the process of an ice age, as they survive and fight the environment, various alien creature ...

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The Last Express ''The Last Express'' is an adventure video game designed by Jordan Mechner and published by Broderbund in 1997 for PC. Players take on the role of an American who accepts an invite by a friend to join them on the Orient Express, days before the ...

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Ori and the Will of the Wisps ''Ori and the Will of the Wisps'' is a platform-adventure Metroidvania video game developed by Moon Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios. Announced during E3 2017, the title is a direct sequel to 2015's '' Ori and the Blind Forest'', and wa ...

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Immortals Fenyx Rising ''Immortals Fenyx Rising'' (originally known as ''Gods and Monsters'') is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Quebec and published by Ubisoft. The game was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Wi ...

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Halo Infinite ''Halo Infinite'' is a 2021 first-person shooter game developed by 343 Industries and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is the sixth mainline entry in the ''Halo'' series, following '' Halo 5: Guardians'' (2015). The campaign follows the h ...

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Tomb Raider series ''Tomb Raider'', also known as ''Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' from 2001 to 2008, is a media franchise that originated with an Action-adventure game, action-adventure video game series created by British gaming company Core Design. Formerly owned b ...

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Stewart Copeland Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is a Scottish-American musician and composer. He is best known for his work as the drummer of the English rock band the Police from 1977 to 1986, and again from 2007 to 2008. Before playing with th ...

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Spyro the Dragon ''Spyro the Dragon'' is a platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation on September 9, 1998. The first game in the '' Spyro'' series, it stars the title character, a young purple ...

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Normand Corbeil Normand Corbeil (April 6, 1956 – January 25, 2013) was a Canadian composer known for his work on films, video games and television. Biography Corbeil won a BAFTA Award and an Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences award for composing the sound ...

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Fahrenheit The Fahrenheit scale () is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). It uses the degree Fahrenheit (symbol: °F) as the unit. Several accounts of how he originally defined hi ...

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Heavy Rain ''Heavy Rain'' is a 2010 adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game features four protagonists involved with the mystery of the Origami Killer, a serial murderer who uses extended periods ...

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Jonathan Coulton Jonathan William Coulton (born December 1, 1970), often called "JoCo" by fans, is an American folk/comedy singer-songwriter, known for his songs about geek culture and his use of the Internet to draw fans. Among his most popular songs are " Co ...

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Portal 2 ''Portal 2'' is a 2011 puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The digital PC version is distributed online by Valve's Steam service, while all retail editions were distributed b ...

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Left 4 Dead 2 ''Left 4 Dead 2'' is a 2009 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. The sequel to Turtle Rock Studios's ''Left 4 Dead'' (2008) and the second game in the ''Left 4 Dead'' series, it was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox ...

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Jessica Curry Jessica Curry (born c. 1973) is an English composer, radio presenter and former co-head of the British video game development studio The Chinese Room. She won a BAFTA award in 2016 for her score for the video game '' Everybody's Gone to the Ra ...

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Dear Esther ''Dear Esther'' is a first-person exploration and adventure video game developed by The Chinese Room for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. First released in 2008 as a free-to-play modification for the Source game engine, ...

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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture ''Everybody's Gone to the Rapture'' is an adventure video game developed by The Chinese Room and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. It is a story-based game, taking place in a small English village whose inhabitants ...

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Joris de Man Joris Maarten de Man, known as Joris de Man, (born 30 June 1972) is a Dutch composer and sound designer, well known for his work on the video games '' Killzone'' and '' Horizon Zero Dawn''. His first work involving video games was chip music wri ...

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Killzone ''Killzone'' is a series of first-person shooter video games for Sony Interactive Entertainment's (SIE) video game consoles. The main series and the PlayStation Portable (PSP) installment were developed by Guerrilla Games, a subsidiary of SI ...

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Horizon Zero Dawn ''Horizon Zero Dawn'' is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The plot follows Aloy, a young hunter in a world overrun by machines, who sets out to uncover her past. The ...

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Charles Deenen Charles Deenen (born 15 January 1970 in Holthees), is a Dutch computer/video game audio director, music composer, sound designer, and mixer. He is also known for his music and sound efforts for games of the C64 and Amiga era. He was one of the ...

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M.C. Kids ''M.C. Kids'' is a 1992 platform video game developed and published by Virgin Interactive. It was initially released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in February 1992 in North America, and by Ocean Software in May 1993 in Europe. As a lice ...

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The Lost Vikings ''The Lost Vikings'' is a puzzle-platform game developed by Silicon & Synapse (now Blizzard Entertainment) and published by Interplay. It was originally released for the Super NES in 1993, then subsequently released for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, M ...

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Descent II ''Descent II'' is a 1996 first-person shooter game developed by Parallax Software and first published for DOS by Interplay Productions. For the PlayStation (console), PlayStation, it is known as ''Descent Maximum''. It is the second installme ...

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Rom Di Prisco Rom Di Prisco (sometimes known as Morphadron) is a Canadian composer and producer. He has provided music for over 30 video games, including ''Guacamelee!'', '' Unreal Tournament 3'', ''SSX Tricky'', '' Spy Hunter 2'', ''NHL'' series, '' Need for ...

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Fortnite ''Fortnite'' is an online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in three distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', a free-to- ...

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Need for Speed II ''Need for Speed II'' is a racing video game released in 1997. It is a part of the ''Need for Speed'' series and is the second installment, following '' The Need for Speed''. Gameplay Like its predecessor, ''Need for Speed II'' allows pla ...

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World Cup 98 The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the football world championship for men's national teams. The finals tournament was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. The country was chosen as the host nation by FIFA for the ...

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NHL 2000 ''NHL 2000'' is an ice hockey video game developed by Electronic Arts Canada. It was released in 1999 and was the successor to ''NHL 99''. The game did not boast great improvements to the game from ''NHL 99'', nor did ''NHL 2001'' feature any ide ...

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FIFA 2000 ''FIFA 2000'' (titled ''FIFA 2000: Major League Soccer'' in North America) is a football simulation video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts. It was the seventh game in the main ''FIFA'' series. The game was released fo ...

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Rune Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised ...

'', '' Blair Witch Volume 2: The Legend of Coffin Rock'', '' Rune: Viking Warlord'', ''

NHL 2001 ''NHL 2001'' is a video game released by Electronic Arts in 2000. It is the successor to ''NHL 2000''. An add-on featuring Elitserien and SM-Liiga was released on the PC version on March 8, 2001, that added Swedish and Finnish hockey leagues and ...

'', '' Rune: Halls of Valhalla'', ''

SSX Tricky ''SSX Tricky'', also known as ''SSX 2'' or ''SSX 2: Tricky'', is a snowboarding video game, the second game in the ''SSX'' series published by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports BIG label and developed by EA Vancouver. A direct sequel to ''S ...

'', '' Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2'', ''

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SpyHunter 2 ''SpyHunter 2'' is a video game published by Midway in 2003 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. This game is the sequel to the 2001 remake of the 1983 game ''Spy Hunter''. The player's first mission begins in Russia, right where the last level left of ...

'', ''Dead Man's Hand'', ''

Full Auto ''Full Auto'' is a 2006 vehicular combat racing game for the Xbox 360 developed by Pseudo Interactive and published by Sega. The game was originally developed by Pseudo Interactive for the PC. It features destructible environments and (in ce ...

'', '' Full Auto 2: Battlelines'', '' Unreal Tournament 3'', '' SSX'', ''

Guacamelee! ''Guacamelee!'' is a Metroidvania action platforming video game developed and published by DrinkBox Studios, initially launched in April 2013 for platforms PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita and was later ported to Microsoft Windows in August a ...

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Guacamelee! 2 ''Guacamelee! 2'' is a Metroidvania platform video game developed and published by DrinkBox Studios. A sequel to '' Guacamelee!'', the game was released for PlayStation 4 and Windows in August 2018 while the Nintendo Switch version was released ...

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Sascha Dikiciyan Sascha Dikiciyan, known professionally as Sonic Mayhem, is a German game musician, producer and professional sound designer of Armenian origin, who has produced the soundtrack for ''Quake II'', ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' and '' Hellgate: London'', ...

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Quake II ''Quake II'' is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. It is the second installment of the ''Quake'' series, but not a direct sequel to '' Quake''. The game's storyline is continued in its ...

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The Long Dark ''The Long Dark'' is a first-person survival video game developed and published by Hinterland Studios. The player assumes the role of crash-landed bush pilot Will Mackenzie who must survive the frigid Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic st ...

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Mass Effect 3 ''Mass Effect 3'' is an action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. The third major entry in the ''Mass Effect'' series and the final installment of the original trilogy, it was released in March 2012 ...

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Ramin Djawadi Ramin Djawadi (, fa, رامین جوادی; born 19 July 1974) is an Iranian and German score composer. He is known for his scores for the 2008 Marvel film ''Iron Man'' and the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', for which he was nominated for Gramm ...

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Epic Mickey ''Epic Mickey'' is a 2010 platform game for the Wii developed by Junction Point Studios and published by Disney Interactive Studios, except in Japan, where it was published by Nintendo. The game focuses on Mickey Mouse, who accidentally damag ...

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Christopher Drake Christopher Drake is an American film, television and video game composer. Drake was selected by director Guillermo del Toro to provide the music for the first two 75-minute animated films, '' Hellboy: Sword of Storms'' and '' Hellboy: Blood an ...

– '' Batman: Arkham Origins'', '' Injustice: Gods Among Us'', ''

Injustice 2 ''Injustice 2'' is a 2017 fighting video game it is the sequel to 2013's '' Injustice: Gods Among Us'' and is the second installment in the ''Injustice'' franchise based upon the DC Universe. It is developed by NetherRealm Studios and publishe ...

'' * Howard Drossin – '' Comix Zone'', ''

Sonic Spinball ''Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball'' is a 1993 pinball video game developed by Sega Technical Institute and published by Sega. It is a Spin-off (media), spinoff of the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series set in the continuity of the ''Sonic the Hedgehog ...

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Dynamedion Dynamedion GbR is a German music composition and production company based in Mainz. Founded in 2000 by composers Pierre Langer and Tilman Sillescu, Dynamedion specialises in composing music for video games. The group has won several industry aw ...

- '' Hitman: Absolution'', ''

Halo Legends ''Halo Legends'' is a collection of 7 short films set in the ''Halo'' universe. Financed by the franchise's overseer 343 Industries, the stories were created by six Japanese anime production houses: Bee Train, Bones, Casio Entertainment, Product ...

'', '' Call of Duty 4'', ''

Mortal Kombat X ''Mortal Kombat X'' is a 2015 fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It is the tenth main installment in the ''Mortal Kom ...

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Randy Edelman Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is an American musician, producer, and composer for film and television. He began his career as a member of Broadway's pit orchestras, and later went on to produce solo albums for songs that were picked up by ...

Greg Edmonson Greg Edmonson is an American music composer for television and movies. He is primarily known for composing the soundtrack to the cult TV series '' Firefly''. He is also the composer for the first three games in the '' Uncharted'' video game seri ...

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Final Fantasy X-2 is a 2003 role-playing video game developed and published by Square (video game company), Square for the PlayStation 2. Unlike most ''Final Fantasy'' games, which use self-contained stories and characters, ''X-2'' continues the story of ''Fin ...

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Jared Emerson-Johnson Jared Nathaniel Emerson-Johnson (born October 13, 1981) is an American video game music composer, sound designer, voice director and voice actor. Emerson-Johnson is the Music Supervisor and lead composer at Bay Area Sound, an audio production co ...

– '' Sam & Max series'', '' Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures'', '' Back to the Future: The Game'', '' Jurassic Park: The Game'', ''

The Walking Dead (video game) ''The Walking Dead'' (also known as ''The Walking Dead: The Game'' and later ''The Walking Dead: Season One'') is an episodic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games. It is the first game in the series, which consists o ...

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Eminence Symphony Orchestra The Eminence Symphony Orchestra founded in Sydney, Australia is an independent symphony orchestra which delves into the classical music featured in video games and anime, as well as film scores. History Eminence was founded in 2003 by a s ...

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Odin Sphere ''Odin Sphere'' is an action role-playing game developed by Vanillaware for the PlayStation 2. It was published by Atlus (Japan and North America) in 2007, and by Square Enix (Europe) in 2008. A remake, titled ''Odin Sphere Leifthrasir'' (styl ...

'', '' Deltora Quest: The Seven Jewels'', ''

Valkyria Chronicles ''Valkyria Chronicles'' is a series of military-themed tactical role-playing video games created by Ryutaro Nonaka and Shuntaro Tanaka, and developed by Sega. The series began with '' Valkyria Chronicles'', which was released for the PlayStat ...

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Soulcalibur IV is the sixth installment in the '' Soulcalibur'' series of fighting games, released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2008. It features greatly improved graphics over the previous title, and includes three guest characters from the ''Star Wa ...

'' * Jon Everist - ''

BattleTech (video game) ''BattleTech'' is a Mecha turn-based strategy video game developed by Harebrained Schemes and published by Paradox Interactive. It was released on macOS and Windows on April 24, 2018, with a Linux release on November 27, 2018. The developers set ...

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Overwatch 2 ''Overwatch 2'' is a 2022 first-person shooter by Blizzard Entertainment. As a sequel to the 2016 hero shooter ''Overwatch'', the game intends a shared environment for player-versus-player (PvP) modes while introducing persistent cooperative ...

'', '' Shadowrun: Hong Kong'', '' The Solitaire Conspiracy''

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Eveline Fischer Eveline Novakovic (née Fischer) (born 1969 in Christchurch, Hampshire) is a British video game music composer who composed some of the music for ''Donkey Kong Country'', most of the tracks for '' Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Troubl ...

(now Eveline Novakovic) – ''

Donkey Kong Country ''Donkey Kong Country'' is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare (company), Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It is a Reboot (fiction), reboot of Nintendo's ''Donkey Kong'' franchise and foll ...

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and David Wise), '' Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!'' (with David Wise) * Ron Fish – '' Batman: Arkham City'', ''God of War'' * The Flight – '' Alien: Isolation'', '' Horizon: Zero Dawn'' * Tim Follin – '' Ghouls and Ghosts'' (

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and C64 versions), '' Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future'' (

Dreamcast The is a home video game console released by Sega on November 27, 1998, in Japan; September 9, 1999, in North America; and October 14, 1999, in Europe. It was the first sixth-generation video game console, preceding Sony's PlayStation 2, Nint ...

), and various assorted tracks for 8- and 16-bit videogames. * Troels Brun Folmann – '' Tomb Raider: Legend'' and '' Tomb Raider: Anniversary'' *

Dan Forden Daniel Warner Forden (born September 28, 1963) is an American sound programmer and music composer. He has worked on video games developed by Midway and its successor NetherRealm Studios since 1989. Forden achieved recognition for his audio wo ...

– '' Mortal Kombat'' series *

Toby Fox Robert F. Fox (born October 11, 1991), known professionally as Toby Fox (previously Toby "Radiation" Fox), is an American video game developer and video game composer. He is known for developing the role-playing video games ''Undertale'' and ...

– ''

Undertale ''Undertale'' is a 2015 2D role-playing video game created by American indie developer Toby Fox. The player controls a child who has fallen into the Underground: a large, secluded region under the surface of the Earth, separated by a magical ...

'', ''

Hiveswap ''Hiveswap'' is an episodic adventure game developed by What Pumpkin Games and overseen by Andrew Hussie and Cohen Edenfield. Based in the universe of Hussie's MS Paint Adventures webcomic ''Homestuck'', it focuses on a girl who is accidentall ...

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Deltarune ''Deltarune'' is a role-playing video game developed by Toby Fox. The player controls a teenage human, Kris, who is destined to save the world together with Susie, a monster, and Ralsei, a prince from the Dark World. During their quest to seal t ...

'', ''

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' is a 2018 crossover fighting video game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth installment in the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series, succeed ...

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Little Town Hero ''Little Town Hero'' is a role-playing video game developed by Game Freak. It was first released for the Nintendo Switch in October 2019 before being ported to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows in 2020. It received mixed reviews fro ...

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Pokémon Sword and Shield and are 2019 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch console. They are the first installments in the eighth generation of the Pokémon (video game series), '' ...

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Hiroshi Fujioka , better known by his stage name , is a Japanese actor known for playing the hero Takeshi Hongo in the tokusatsu superhero series '' Kamen Rider'', and later the Sega Saturn mascot Segata Sanshiro (jokingly revealed to be Takeshi Hongo himse ...

– '' Growlanser II'', '' Growlanser III'', ''

Langrisser III ''Langrisser III'' is the sequel to ''Langrisser II'', released in a number of Asian countries but not in the West. It is the first 32-bit installment in the series. ''Langrisser III'' introduced a non-linear relationship system similar to datin ...

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Yasuhiko Fukuda is a Japanese composer and keyboardist. History and career Born in Tokyo's Itabashi prefecture, Fukuda began playing piano at the age of 4, and while at school became interested in anime ("We were the first anime generation"). He graduated f ...

– sometimes credited as Hirohiko Fukuda, known for '' Emerald Dragon'' (SNES) *

Kenichiro Fukui is a Japanese video game composer and electronic musician. Before working at Square Enix, he was employed at Konami. He was also an arranger and a keyboardist in the band The Black Mages. Additionally, Fukui arranged Angela Aki's " Kiss Me Good- ...

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Einhänder ''Einhänder'' is a scrolling shooter developed by Square for the PlayStation console. It was released in Japan on November 20, 1997 and in North America on May 5, 1998. It was also re-released for the Japanese PlayStation Network on June 25, 20 ...

'' * Brad Fuller (composer) – '' Tengen Tetris'', ''

Marble Madness ''Marble Madness'' is an arcade game, arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny and published by Atari Games in 1984. It is a platform game in which the player must guide a marble through six courses, populated with obstacles and enemies, within ...

'', '' Gauntlet II'', ''

S.T.U.N. Runner ''S.T.U.N. Runner'' (Spread Tunnel Underground Network Runner) is 3D racing/shooter game released in arcades by Atari Games in 1989. The player pilots a futuristic vehicle which can exceed 900 mph, through various tunnels and courses with ...

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RoadBlasters ''RoadBlasters'' is a combat racing video game released in arcades by Atari Games in 1987. In ''RoadBlasters'', the player must navigate an armed sports car through 50 different rally races, getting to the finish line before running out of fuel. ...

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Xybots ''Xybots'' is a 1987 third-person shooter arcade game by Atari Games. In ''Xybots'', up to two players control "Major Rock Hardy" and "Captain Ace Gunn", who must travel through a 3D maze and fight against a series of robots known as the Xybots ...

'', ''

Blasteroids ''Blasteroids'' is the third official sequel to the 1979 multidirectional shooter video game, ''Asteroids''. It was developed by Atari Games and released in arcades in 1987. Unlike the previous games, ''Blasteroids'' uses raster graphics instead ...

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Klax (video game) ''Klax'' is a puzzle video game released in arcades in 1990 by Atari Games while Namco distributed the game in Japanese markets. It was designed by Dave Akers and Mark Stephen Pierce. The object is to catch colored blocks tumbling down a machine ...

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Steel Talons ''Steel Talons'' is a 3D combat flight simulator arcade game released by Atari Games in 1991. The player takes on the role of a pilot for an "AT1196 Steel Talons combat helicopter". ''Steel Talons'' was ported to the Sega Genesis, Atari Lynx, Ata ...

'', '' Off the Wall (video game)'', ''

Toobin' ''Toobin is an Atari Games and Midway Games video game originally released as an arcade game in 1988 and is based on the recreational sport tubing. It was later ported to systems such as NES, Amiga, Commodore 64, MSX, and Game Boy Color. In ...

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Rampart (video game) ''Rampart'' is a 1990 video game released by Atari Games and Midway Games that combines the shoot 'em up, strategy, and puzzle genres. It debuted as an arcade game with trackball controls, and was ported to home systems. It had a limited US relea ...

'', '' APB (1987 video game)'', ''

720° ''720°'' is a skateboarding video game released in arcades by Atari Games in 1986, in which the player controls a skateboarder skating around a middle-class neighborhood. By doing jumps and tricks, the player can eventually acquire enough point ...

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Peter Pack Rat ''Peter Pack Rat'' is a 1985 platform game developed and released by Atari Games for the Atari System 1 arcade hardware. It was programmed by Peter Thompson, with graphics by Debbie Hayes and music by Brad Fuller. The game was only produced in s ...

'', '' T-Mek'', ''

Rolling Thunder (video game) is a run-and-gun shooter produced by Namco, originally released as a coin-operated arcade video game which ran on the Namco System 86 hardware in 1986. It was distributed in North America by Atari Games. The player takes control of a secret ag ...

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Vindicators ''Vindicators'' is a one or two player arcade game released by Atari Games in 1988. Home ports were by Tengen. ''Vindicators'' was not licensed by Nintendo and used an alternate chip to defeat the 10NES lockout system. Ports were planned for th ...

'', '' Space Lords'', '' Firefox (video game)'', ''

Road Runner (video game) ''Road Runner'' is a racing video game based on the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts. It was released in arcades by Atari Games in 1985. Gameplay The player controls Road Runner, who is chased by Wile E. Coyote. In order to escape, Road R ...

'', ''

Explore Technologies Explore Technologies, Inc. was founded in Sunnyvale, California in 1995. Its offices were located at 2880 Lakeside Drive, Suite 130. Products Odyssey Atlasphere The first product released was ''Odyssey'', ''The World's First Altasphere'', ...

'' * Takeshi Furukawa – ''

The Last Guardian ''The Last Guardian'' is a 2016 action-adventure game developed by Japan Studio and GenDesign and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. Players control a boy who befriends a giant half-bird, half-mammal creatur ...

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Martin Galway Martin Galway (born 3 January 1966, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is one of the best known composers of chiptune video game music for the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum. His works include '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'', '' Comic Bakery'' and ...

– '' Commodore 64'' sound programmer and composer for ''

Ocean Software Ocean Software Ltd was a British software development company that became one of the biggest European video game developers and publishers of the 1980s and 1990s. The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and was based in Manchester. ...

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Imagine Software Imagine Software was a British video games developer based in Liverpool which existed briefly in the early 1980s, initially producing software for the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20. The company rose quickly to prominence and was noted for its polished, ...

'' (after Ocean bought the company). *

Genki Rockets is a virtual band created by video game developer Tetsuya Mizuguchi and record producer Kenji Tamai. Rachel Rhodes portrayed the band's frontwoman, a fictional 17-year-old girl named Lumi who was the first human born in outer space on the Inte ...

– '' Lumines II'', '' Child of Eden'' *

Raphaël Gesqua Raphaël Gesqua (born February 11, 1972 in Paris) is a French composer, arranger and sound designer. Biography Raphaël Gesqua's professional career began in the video games industry, in the early 1990s, under his real name ''Raphaël Gesqu ...

– '' Flashback: The Quest For Identity'', '' Mr. Nutz'', '' Moto Racer'' *

Michael Giacchino Michael Giacchino (; born October 10, 1967) is an American composer of music for films, television and video games. He has also served as a director for television. He has received many awards, including an Oscar for his work on '' Up'' (2009), ...

– ''

Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valo ...

'' series (1999–2003, 2007), '' Call of Duty'' series (2003-2004), ''

Secret Weapons Over Normandy ''Secret Weapons Over Normandy'' is a World War II-based arcade video game. Published by LucasArts and developed by Totally Games, the game is composed of 15 objective-based missions set in 1940s European, North African, and the Pacific theat ...

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BLACK Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white ...

'' * Mick Gordon – '' Need for Speed: Shift'', ''

Shift 2 Unleashed ''Shift 2: Unleashed'' (also known as ''Need for Speed: Shift 2 – Unleashed'') is a simcade racing video game, the seventeenth installment of the ''Need for Speed'' series. It was developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Electronic ...

'', ''

'', '' Wolfenstein: The New Order'', ''

Doom Doom is another name for damnation. Doom may also refer to: People * Doom (professional wrestling), the tag team of Ron Simmons and Butch Reed * Daniel Doom (born 1934), Belgian cyclist * Debbie Doom (born 1963), American softball pitcher * ...

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Doom Eternal ''Doom Eternal'' is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks. The sequel to ''Doom'' (2016), and the sixth main game in the ''Doom'' series, it was released on March 20, 2020, for Windows, PlaySt ...

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Simon Gosling Simon "Goose" Gosling (born 9 April 1969) is a British designer and builder of special effects Scale model, models and props. He is best known for his work on the Millennium Falcon cockpit for ''Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' in 2014. Also his ...

– ''

Croc 2 ''Croc 2'' is a platform game developed by Argonaut Software and published by Fox Interactive. The sequel to '' Croc: Legend of the Gobbos'', it revolves around the title character going on a quest to search for his missing parents, as well as sa ...

'' * Jason Graves – '' Command and Conquer 4'', ''

Dead Space ''Dead Space'' is a science fiction/ horror media franchise created by Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, developed by Visceral Games, and published and owned by Electronic Arts. The franchise's chronology is not presented in a linear format; ...

'' series, '' City of Heroes'', '' Silent Hunter'' series, ''

Tomb Raider (2013 video game) ''Tomb Raider'' is a 2013 action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix's European subsidiary. It is the tenth main game in the ''Tomb Raider'' franchise and a reboot of the series, acting as the first ...

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Until Dawn ''Until Dawn'' is a 2015 interactive drama horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. Players assume control of eight young adults who have to survive on Blackwood ...

'' * Fred Gray – Shadowfire, Mutants, Madballs, Enigma Force, Black Lamp, Eco, Stargoose, Victory Road * Gustaf Grefberg – '' Enclave (video game)'', '' The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay'' *

Harry Gregson-Williams Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is a British composer, conductor, orchestrator, and record producer. He has composed music for video games, television and films including the ''Metal Gear'' series, '' Spy Game'', ''Phone Booth'' ...

– '' Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty'', '' Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater'', '' Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots'' *

Mark Griskey Mark Griskey (born 1963) is an American composer for video games such as '' Marvel Heroes'', '' Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords'', and '' Star Wars: The Old Republic'' as well as several titles for ''Disney Publishing Wor ...

– '' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'', '' Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords'', '' Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith'', ''

Rayman Raving Rabbids ''Rayman Raving Rabbids'' is a 2006 party video game developed and published by Ubisoft. The game is a spinoff in the '' Rayman'' series. The game consists of 75 minigames. The game was released for the PlayStation 2, Wii, Xbox 360, and Microso ...

'', '' Rayman Raving Rabbids 2''

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Gordy Haab Gordy Haab (born 1976) is an American film, video game and television composer based in Los Angeles, California. His work has been featured in works associated with franchises including most recently '' Star Wars Battlefront II'', for which he ...

– '' Star Wars: The Old Republic'', '' Star Wars Battlefront'' series, ''

Halo Wars 2 ''Halo Wars 2'' is a real-time strategy video game developed by 343 Industries and Creative Assembly. It was published by Microsoft Studios and released in February 2017 on Windows and Xbox One. The game is set in the science fiction universe ...

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Peter Hajba Peter Hajba (born 15 December 1974), also known by his demoscene nickname Skaven, is a Finnish electronic musician, video game composer and graphic artist. His most recent project is with Remedy Entertainment as an animator, sound designer and gr ...

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Bejeweled ''Bejeweled'' (also referred as ''Bejeweled Deluxe'' in some releases) is a tile-matching puzzle video game by PopCap Games, developed for browsers in 2001. The first game developed by PopCap under their current name, ''Bejeweled'', involves ...

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Masashi Hamauzu is a Japanese composer, pianist, and lyricist. Hamauzu, who was employed at Square Enix from 1996 to 2010, was best known during that time for his work on the ''Final Fantasy'' and ''SaGa'' video game series. Born into a musical family in German ...

– ''

SaGa Frontier 2 is a role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation. It is the eighth original game in their '' SaGa'' series. Initially released in Japan in April 1999, an English version was made available in North America in January 2000 ...

'', ''

Tobal No. 1 is a fighting video game for the PlayStation developed by DreamFactory and published by Square in 1996. The game was DreamFactory's first release, as well as Square's first release on the CD-based console. ''Tobal No. 1'' marks Square's first i ...

'', '' Final Fantasy X'' (with Nobuo Uematsu and Junya Nakano), '' Final Fantasy XIII'', ''

Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was released in 2011 in Japan and 2012 in North America and PAL regions, and was ported to Microsoft Windows in 2014 and iOS and Android ...

'', ''

Final Fantasy VII Remake is a 2020 action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix. It is the first in a planned trilogy of games remaking the 1997 PlayStation game '' Final Fantasy VII''. Set in the dystopian cyberpunk metropolis of Midgar, playe ...

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Kentarō Haneda was a Japanese pianist, composer and arranger. He composed for popular anime series, movies and video games. His popular name was Haneken. Biography Haneda was born in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from the Toho Gakuen School of Music, he ...

– ''

Wizardry ''Wizardry'' is a series of role-playing video games, developed by Sir-Tech, that were highly influential in the evolution of modern role-playing video games. The original ''Wizardry'' was a significant influence on early console role-playing ...

1'', ''2'', and ''3''; ''Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom'' *

James Hannigan James Hannigan (born 23 July 1971) is a British composer with credits in the ''Harry Potter'', ''The Lord of the Rings'', ''Command and Conquer'' (including Red Alert 3's well-known Soviet March), ''Dead Space'', ''Warhammer'', ''Cloudy With ...

– ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'', ''Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight'', ''The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest'', ''Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3'', ''Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs'', ''Primeval (ITV)'', ''

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the sixth and penultimate novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. Set during Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts, the novel explores t ...

'', ''Red Alert 3 Uprising'', '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', '' Republic: The Revolution'', '' Freelancer'', ''Art Academy'', '' Sim Theme Park'', ''

Mr. Bean ''Mr. Bean'' is a British sitcom created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, produced by Tiger Aspect and starring Atkinson as the title character. The sitcom consists of 15 episodes that were co-written by Atkinson alongside Curtis and R ...

'', ''

Grand Prix 4 ''Grand Prix 4'', commonly known as ''GP4'' is a Formula One racing simulator game co-developed by Geoff Crammond's development studio Simergy and Infogrames' Chippenham development studio, and published by Infogrames. Released for the PC on June ...

'', '' Reign of Fire'', '' Jetix'', '' Evil Genius'', ''

Catwoman Catwoman is a fictional character created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman. Debuting as "the Cat" in ''Batman'' #1 (spring 1940), she is ...

'', '' Warhammer: Dark Omen'', ''

FIFA Soccer Manager ''FIFA Manager'' is an association football series of sports management games published by Electronic Arts. The games were developed by the German studio Bright Future and EA Sports. The game was called ''Total Club Manager'' until the name changed ...

'', '' Conquest: Frontier Wars'', '' Sim Coaster'', '' F1 Manager'', ''Evil Genius 2'' *

Jon Hare Jon "Jops" Hare (born 20 January 1966, Ilford, Essex, England) is an English computer game designer, video game artist, musician and one of many founder members of the early UK games industry as co-founder and director, along with Chris Yates, ...

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Cannon Fodder Cannon fodder is an informal, derogatory term for combatants who are regarded or treated by government or military command as expendable in the face of enemy fire. The term is generally used in situations where combatants are forced to deliberatel ...

'' series, ''

Sensible Soccer ''Sensible Soccer'', often called ''Sensi'', is an association football video game series which was highly popular in the early 1990s and which still retains a cult following. It was developed by Sensible Software and first released for Amiga ...

'' series, ''

Sensible Golf ''Sensible Golf'' is a 2D golf game released by Sensible Software in 1995 for the Amiga. It uses the same pin-like characters as ''Sensible Soccer'' and '' Cannon Fodder''. The theme tune was written by the lead game designer, Jon Hare, and a pro ...

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Kurt Harland Kurt Harland is an American singer, songwriter, and audio engineer and is the lead singer of Information Society. He also works on video game scores, including two of the soundtracks for the ''Legacy of Kain'' video game series ('' Legacy of Ka ...

– '' Soul Reaver'' * Aki Hata (occasionally credited as AKI) – '' Rocket Knight Adventures'' (with Masanori Ohuchi, Masanori Adachi, Hiroshi Kobayashi and

Michiru Yamane is a Japanese video game composer and pianist. Yamane's musical style draws on baroque, classical and rock traditions, with both Johann Sebastian Bach and Yellow Magic Orchestra as prominent influences. She is best known for her two decades ...

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Dynamite Headdy ''Dynamite Headdy'' is a platform video game developed by Treasure and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis in 1994. The game follows a puppet named Headdy in his efforts to stop an evil puppet king from taking over his world. Headdy can throw ...

'' (with Norio Hanzawa and Nazo² Suzuki) *

Kärtsy Hatakka Kari Arvo Ilari "Kärtsy" Hatakka (born December 17, 1967 in Helsinki, Finland) is the vocalist and bassist for the Finnish music group Waltari, which he founded in 1986. He has been a full-time musician since 1991, and worked on the soundtrack f ...

– '' Max Payne'', ''

Max Payne 2 ''Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne'' is a 2003 third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Rockstar Games. It is the sequel to 2001's ''Max Payne (video game), Max Payne'' and the second game in the ''Ma ...

'' * Christophe Héral – ''

Beyond Good & Evil ''Beyond Good & Evil'' is a 2003 action-adventure video game developed and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Xbox and GameCube platforms. The story follows the adventures of Jade, an investigative reporter and m ...

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Rayman Origins ''Rayman Origins'' is a 2011 platform video game developed and published by Ubisoft. It is the fourth main installment in the ''Rayman'' series and the first main installment since '' Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc'' (2003). The game was released for ...

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Rayman Legends ''Rayman Legends'' is a platform video game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and published by Ubisoft. It is the fifth main title in the ''Rayman'' series and the direct sequel to the 2011 game ''Rayman Origins''. The game was released for Mi ...

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Norihiko Hibino is a Japanese video game composer and saxophonist. Biography Hibino was born in Osaka. He graduated from the Osaka University School of Human Sciences in 1996. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1997, he moved to Kansas City to s ...

– '' Metal Gear: Ghost Babel'', ''

Zone of the Enders is a video game franchise created by Hideo Kojima and Konami that focused around combat in space with mecha called Orbital Frames. The original ''Zone of the Enders'' was released for the PlayStation 2 in March 2001. A sequel, '' Zone of the ...

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Joe Hisaishi , known professionally as , is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. He is also known for his piano scores. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore ...

- professional name of Mamoru Fujisawa, composer and musical director known for '' Ni no Kuni'' *

Silas Hite Silas Hite (born March 30, 1980) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and visual artist. Early life Hite began playing drums when he was eleven, studying with jazz drummer Mel Zelnick. He taught himself guitar and ba ...

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Skate 3 ''Skate 3'' is a skateboarding video game, the third installment in the ''Skate'' series and the sequel to 2009's '' Skate 2'', developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts. It was released worldwide in May 2010 for PlayStation 3 a ...

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The Simpsons ''The Simpsons'' is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer Simpson, Homer, Marge ...

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The Sims 2 ''The Sims 2'' is a 2004 strategic life simulation video game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the second major title in ''The Sims'' series, and is the sequel to ''The Sims.'' The game was released for Microsoft Windo ...

'', '' The Sims 2: University'', '' The Sims 2: Open For Business'', '' The Sims 2: Pets'', '' The Sims 2: Castaway'', '' The Sims 2: Bon Voyage'', '' My Sims'', '' My Sims: Agents, ''

MySims Kingdom ''MySims Kingdom'' is a video game developed by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts as a spin-off to Maxis' ''The Sims'' franchise for the Nintendo DS and Wii in 2008. ''MySims Kingdom'' is a follow-up to ''MySims'', which was r ...

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MySims Racing ''MySims Racing'' is a go-kart-car racing game developed by Artificial Mind & Movement (now Behaviour Interactive) and published by Electronic Arts as part of the ''MySims'' series, a spin-off from its trademark ''The Sims'' series of games. The ...

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Boom Blox ''Boom Blox'' is a puzzle video game for the Wii console, mobile devices and N-Gage 2.0 developed by EA Los Angeles in conjunction with film director Steven Spielberg. It was released on May 6, 2008 in North America and on May 9, 2008 in Europe. ...

'', '' Boom Blox: Bash Party'', '' Academy of Champions'', ''

Mean Girls ''Mean Girls'' is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. The film stars Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried (in her film debut), Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler a ...

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Legally Blonde ''Legally Blonde'' is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic in his feature-length directorial debut, and scripted by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith from Amanda Brown's 2001 novel of the same name. It stars Reese Wit ...

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Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's '' ...

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Michael Hoenig Michael Hoenig (born 4 January 1952) is a German composer who has composed music for several films and games, in addition to two solo albums, including the highly acclaimed 1978 album '' Departure from the Northern Wasteland''. In 1997, he was ...

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Baldur's Gate ''Baldur's Gate'' is a series of role-playing video games set in the Forgotten Realms '' Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign setting. The game has spawned two series, known as the ''Bhaalspawn Saga'' and the ''Dark Alliance'', both taking place mostl ...

'', '' Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'' * Alec Holowka – '' Aquaria'' *

Shinji Hosoe , also known as Megaten and Sampling Masters MEGA, is a Japanese video game composer and musician most famous for scoring ''Ridge Racer'', '' Street Fighter EX'' and many Namco arcade games between 1987 and 1996. He also runs the music production ...

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Ridge Racer is a racing video game series developed and published for arcade systems and home game consoles by Bandai Namco Entertainment, formerly Namco. The first game, '' Ridge Racer'' (1993), was originally released in arcades for the Namco System 22 ...

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Street Fighter EX is a 2D head-to-head fighting game with 3D graphics, originally released as a coin-operated arcade game for the Sony ZN hardware in 1996. It is a spin-off of the ''Street Fighter'' series co-produced by Capcom with Arika and was the first gam ...

'' series * Niamh Houston - '' Super Hexagon'', '' Dicey Dungeons'' *

Rob Hubbard Rob Hubbard (born 1955 in Kingston upon Hull, England) is a British composer best known for his musical and programming work for microcomputers of the 1980s, such as the Commodore 64. Early life Hubbard first started playing music at age seve ...

– Many games for Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64 including ''

International Karate ''International Karate'' is a fighting game developed and published by System 3 for the ZX Spectrum in 1985 and ported to various home computers over the following years. In the United States it was published by Epyx in 1986 as ''World Karate ...

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Jet Set Willy ''Jet Set Willy'' is a platform video game originally written by Matthew Smith for the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published in 1984 by Software Projects and ported to most home computers of the time. The game is a sequel to '' Man ...

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Chris Huelsbeck Christopher Hülsbeck (born 2 March 1968), known internationally as Chris Huelsbeck, is a German video game music composer. He gained popularity for his work on game soundtracks for ''The Great Giana Sisters'' and the ''Turrican'' series. Career ...

– '' Apidya'', ''

Great Giana Sisters ''The Great Giana Sisters'' is a 1987 platform game developed by German studio Time Warp Productions and published by Rainbow Arts. The scroll screen melody of the game was composed by Chris Huelsbeck and is a popular Commodore 64 soundtrack. Th ...

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Turrican ''Turrican'' is a 1990 video game developed by Manfred Trenz. It was developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, and was ported to other systems later. In addition to concept design and character creation, Trenz programmed ''Turrican'' on th ...

'' series * Michael Hunter – '' Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'', ''

Grand Theft Auto IV ''Grand Theft Auto IV'' is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the sixth main entry in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series, following 2004's '' Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'', and the e ...

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Andrew Hulshult Andrew Hulshult is an American video game music composer and sound designer. He is best known for his work with 3D Realms as well as his scores for several first-person shooters, such as Dusk (video game), ''Dusk'', ''Quake Champions'', and ''Do ...

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Dusk Dusk occurs at the darkest stage of twilight, or at the very end of astronomical twilight after sunset and just before nightfall.''The Random House College Dictionary'', "dusk". At predusk, during early to intermediate stages of twilight, enou ...

'', '' Quake Champions'', '' Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part 1''

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Kamaitachi no Yoru , released in English as ''Banshee's Last Cry'', is a visual novel created by Chunsoft. It was first released for Super Famicom (the Japanese version of the Super NES) and was later ported to other consoles. An English localized version of the ...

'' series (with Kojiro Nakashima), ''

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is a video game series spin-off from the main ''Pokémon'' series developed by Spike Chunsoft (formerly Chunsoft). The games feature the fictional creatures called Pokémon who have the ability to speak human language navigating through a ra ...

'' series, ''

Ninjala ''Ninjala'' is a free-to-play multiplayer action video game developed and published by GungHo Online Entertainment. Unveiled at E3 2018, it was released on June 24, 2020 for the Nintendo Switch. The game received mixed reviews, with many prais ...

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Bemani , stylized as BEMANI, is Konami's music video game division. Originally named the Games & Music Division (G.M.D.), it changed its name in honor of its first and most successful game, '' Beatmania'', and expanded into other music-based games, m ...

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Tsuneo Imahori is a Japanese guitarist and composer. Life He started to play acoustic guitar aged 12, inspired by British folk music from the likes of Bert Jansch, and later the work of Frank Zappa and Andy Partridge. In 1986 he formed the band Tipographica ...

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Gungrave is a 2002 third-person shooter video game developed and published by Red Entertainment (Sega in North America and Activision in Europe) for the PlayStation 2. ''Gungrave'' follows its main character through a variety of stages on a path of rev ...

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Laura Intravia Laura Intravia, also known as Flute Link, is an American instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer. She is best known for her performances on video game soundtracks and for concerts featuring video game music. Career Intravia began performing as ...

- ''Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars'' *

Mark Isham Mark Ware Isham (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician and film composer. A trumpeter and keyboardist, Isham works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic. He is also a film composer, having worked on numerous films and ...

Daisuke Ishiwatari is a Japanese video game developer, illustrator, musician, composer and voice actor. He is best known for creating the 2D fighting game series ''Guilty Gear''. He designed the characters and storyline, and wrote the music. He also provides the ...

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Guilty Gear is a series of fighting games by Arc System Works, created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. The first game was published in 1998, and has spawned several sequels. It has also adapted to other media such as manga and drama CD. ''Gu ...

'' series * Naoki Itamura – Tail to Nose: Great Championship,

Pipe Dream Pipe dream may refer to: Music * ''Pipe Dream'' (John Williamson album), 1997, or the titular song * ''Pipedream'' (Alan Hull album), 1973 * ''Pipe Dreams'' (Murray Head album), 1995 * "Pipe Dreams" (Nelly Furtado song), 2016 * ''Pipe Dream ...

, Aero Fighters, Hyper V-Ball, F-1 Grand Prix series *

Kenji Ito , also known by the nickname , is a Japanese video game composer and musician. He is best known for his work on the ''Mana'' and '' SaGa'' series, though he has worked on over 30 video games throughout his career as well as composed or arranged ...

– '' SaGa'' series, '' Seiken Densetsu 1'', ''

'', '' Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu'' *

Noriyuki Iwadare is a Japanese video game composer. Biography Iwadare was born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He began to compose video game music after years of being involved with university bands. He began composing for Toaplan, arranging the ...

– ''

Langrisser is a fantasy tactical role-playing video game series created by Masaya Games. The main development team is Career Soft, first as Team Career within Masaya Games for the first three games and then as an independent studio for ''Langrisser IV'' ...

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Lunar Lunar most commonly means "of or relating to the Moon". Lunar may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Lunar'' (series), a series of video games * "Lunar" (song), by David Guetta * "Lunar", a song by Priestess from the 2009 album ''Prior t ...

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Grandia is a series of role-playing video games developed by Game Arts and published over the years by Entertainment Software Publishing, Sony Computer Entertainment, Ubisoft, Hudson Soft, Enix, Square Enix and GungHo Online Entertainment. Games in th ...

'', '' Growlancer'', '' Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations'', ''

Radiata Stories ''Radiata Stories'' is an action role-playing video game. It was developed by tri-Ace and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2. It was released on January 27, 2005, in Japan and September 6, 2005, in North America. The game received ...

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Masaharu Iwata is a Japanese video game composer. After graduating from high school, where his musical projects included composing on a synthesizer and playing in a cover band, he joined Bothtec as a composer. He composed the soundtrack to several games there ...

– ''

Final Fantasy Tactics is a 1997 tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. Released in Japan in June 1997 and in the United States in January 1998 by Sony Computer Entertainment, it is the first game of the ...

'' (with Hitoshi Sakimoto), '' Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity'' (with Hitoshi Sakimoto), '' Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together'' (with Hitoshi Sakimoto) *

Hiroyuki Iwatsuki Hiroyuki Iwatsuki (岩月博之) (born 1970) is a Japanese video game music composer who has contributed to the soundtracks of ''Ninja Warriors'', '' Pocky & Rocky'', and '' Omega Five''. He has been composing and arranging songs for the game com ...

– '' Mitsume ga Tōru'' (NES), ''

Wild Guns ''Wild Guns'' is a 1994 space Western shooting gallery video game developed by Natsume for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Set in the Wild West with steampunk and sci-fi influences, the story follows Annie and her bounty hunter Cli ...

'' (with Haruo Ohashi), '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition'' (with Haruo Ohashi), '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie'' (SNES, with Haruo Ohashi), ''

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ''Mighty Power Rangers'' (''MMPR'') is a superhero television series that premiered on August 28, 1993, on the Fox Kids programming block. It is the first entry of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, and became a 1990s pop culture phenomenon along ...

'' (SNES, with Kinuyo Yamashita and Iku Mizutani) *

Takahiro Izutani is a video game music composer and guitarist. He is notable for his work in the ''Metal Gear Solid'' series. Profile In 1997, his avant-garde rock band "Happy Family" released an album, "Toscco" on Cuneiform Records in the U.S. (http://cune ...

– Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops,

Yakuza 2 is an action-adventure game by Sega, the sequel to ''Yakuza''. It was released on December 7, 2006, for the PlayStation 2 in Japan and in September 2008 in North America and Europe. The game focuses on the former ''yakuza'' Kazuma Kiryu who receiv ...

, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Ninja Blade

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Henry Jackman Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1974) is an English composer. He composed music for films such as '' Kong: Skull Island'', '' X-Men: First Class'', ''Winnie the Pooh'', ''Wreck-It Ralph'', ''Puss in Boots'', '' Monsters vs. Aliens'', '' Captain Phi ...

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Just Cause 3 ''Just Cause 3'' is a 2015 action-adventure game developed by Avalanche Studios and published by Square Enix's European subsidiary. It is the third game in the ''Just Cause'' series and the sequel to 2010's '' Just Cause 2''. It was released w ...

'', '' Uncharted 4: A Thief's End'' *

Steve Jablonsky Steve Jablonsky (born October 9, 1970) is an American composer for film, television and video games, best known for his musical scores in the ''Transformers'' film series. Some of his frequent collaboration partners include film directors Michae ...

– '' The Sims 3'', '' Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands'', ''

Command & Conquer ''Command & Conquer'' (''C&C'') is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game franchise, first developed by Westwood Studios. The first game was one of the earliest of the RTS genre, itself based on Westwood Studios' influential strategy game '' Dune ...

'', ''

Transformers ''Transformers'' is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Tomy, Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the Autobots and the Decepticons, two alien robot factions at war that can transform into other forms ...

'', '' Gears of War'' series *

– '' Uncharted 4: A Thief's End'', ''

Disney Infinity 2.0 ''Disney Infinity 2.0'' (also known as ''Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes'') is an action-adventure game, action-adventure Nonlinear gameplay#Sandbox mode, sandbox toys-to-life video game developed by Avalanche Software and Heavy Iron Studios ...

'' * Lee Jackson – ''

Rise of the Triad ''Rise of the Triad: Dark War'' is a first-person shooter video game, developed and published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms) in 1995. The player can choose one of five different characters to play as, each bearing unique attributes such as ...

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Duke Nukem 3D ''Duke Nukem 3D'' is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms. It is a sequel to the platform games ''Duke Nukem (video game), Duke Nukem'' and ''Duke Nukem II'', published by 3D Realms. ''Duke Nukem 3D'' features the adventures ...

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Shadow Warrior ''Shadow Warrior'' is a series of first-person shooter video games that focuses on the exploits of Lo Wang, a modern ninja warrior who fights through hordes of demons. The original series is made up of one game, '' Shadow Warrior'' (1997), and t ...

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Richard Jacques Richard Adrian Jacques (; born 1973) is a British composer of film, television and video game music. Best known for his critically acclaimed orchestral scores for blockbuster franchises such as '' James Bond 007: Blood Stone'', ''Sonic R'', '' ...

– ''

Sonic R is a 1997 racing game developed by Traveller's Tales and Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn. It is the third racing game in the '' Sonic the Hedgehog'' series, and the first to feature 3D computer graphics. The player race ...

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Metropolis Street Racer ''Metropolis Street Racer'' (''MSR'') is a racing video game developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Sega exclusively for Dreamcast. The game was intended to be a Dreamcast launch title, however, due to numerous delays it was not release ...

'', '' Headhunter'', '' Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood'' *

JAM Project JAM Project ("JAM" standing for "Japan Animationsong Makers") are a Japanese anison band founded on July 19, 2000 by anison singer Ichirou Mizuki. The band is composed of many vocal artists well known in the anime music industry. Aside from the m ...

– '' Super Robot Wars series'' *

Richard Joseph Richard Joseph (23 April 1953 – 4 March 2007) was an English computer game composer, musician and sound specialist. He had a career spanning 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding form ...

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Sensible Software Sensible Software was a British software company founded by Jon Hare and Chris Yates that was active from March 1986 to June 1999. It released seven number-one hit games and won numerous industry awards. The company was well known for the exa ...

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Bitmap Brothers The Bitmap Brothers are a British video game developer founded in 1987. The company entered the video game industry in 1988 with the scrolling shooter ''Xenon''. They quickly followed with '' Speedball''. Prior to becoming the publisher of th ...

'', many others from 1986 to 2006

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Akari Kaida is a Japanese video game music composer. She composed various soundtracks for Capcom games, including multiple in the '' Mega Man'' series. She has occasionally been credited as Akari Groves, taking the surname of her husband. Career Kaida was ...

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Mega Man & Bass is an action- platform video game developed and published by Capcom. It is a spin-off game in the original ''Mega Man'' series and was originally released in Japan for the Super Famicom on April 24, 1998. It was later ported to the Game Boy ...

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Mega Man Battle Network is a tactical role-playing video game series created by Masahiro Yasuma and developed and published by Capcom as a spin-off of the ''Mega Man'' series; it premiered in 2001 on the Game Boy Advance and takes place in an alternate continuity wh ...

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Ōkami is an action-adventure video game developed by Clover Studio and published by Capcom. It was released for PlayStation 2 in 2006 in Japan and North America, and in 2007 in Europe and Australia. After the closure of Clover Studio a few months a ...

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Yuki Kajiura Yuki, Yūki or Yuuki may refer to: Places * Yuki, Hiroshima (Jinseki), a town in Jinseki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yuki, Hiroshima (Saeki), a town in Saeki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yūki, Ibaraki, a city on Honshu island in Japan * Y ...

– '' Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse'', '' Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra'' *

Yoko Kanno is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer best known for her work on the soundtracks of anime series, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. She has wri ...

– ''Genghis Khan'', ''

Nobunaga's Ambition is a series of turn-based grand strategy role-playing simulation video games. The original game was one of the first in its genre, being released in March 1983 by the Japanese video game developer Koei. ''Nobunaga's Ambition'' takes place during ...

'' series, ''Uncharted Waters'' series, ''

Macross Ace Frontier is a shooting game developed by Artdink for the PlayStation Portable. The game is based on Studio Nue's popular ''Macross'' series, one of which is known in the West as the first generation of ''Robotech''. It features original elements as well ...

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Macross Ultimate Frontier is a shooting game developed by Artdink for the PlayStation Portable. The game is based on Studio Nue's popular ''Macross'' series, one of which is known in the West as the first generation of ''Robotech''. It features original elements as well ...

'', '' Macross Triangle Frontier'' *

Jake Kaufman Jake Kaufman (born 1981; also known as virt or virtjk) is an American video game music composer. After starting out creating arrangements and remixes of video game soundtracks, he began his commercial composing career in 2000 with the score t ...

– ''

Shantae ''Shantae'' is a series of platform games developed by WayForward. The eponymous heroine of the series, a half-genie, was created by Erin Bozon, while the games were created from this character by her husband Matt Bozon. The series consists of ...

'', '' M&M's Minis Madness'', '' Legend of Kay'', '' TMNT'' (Nintendo DS), '' Contra 4'' *

Kenji Kawai is a Japanese music composer and arranger. Known as one of the biggest names in the soundtrack world, he has worked on a wide range of mixed media productions, including anime, TV shows, films and video games. Among his credits are Toei's Kam ...

– ''

Sansara Naga (series) is a series of Japan-exclusive video games. The first title was released in 1990 for the Family Computer, four years later ''Sansara Naga 2'' was released for the Super Famicom, and finally in 2001 ''Sansara Naga 1x2'' was released for the Game ...

'', ''

Deep Fear is a 1998 survival horror video game developed by Sega AM7 and System Sacom for the Sega Saturn. It was the last Saturn game released in Europe. The game offers unique gameplay features such as buttons that allow the player to use items in real-t ...

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Folklore Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. This includes oral traditions such as tales, legends, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, ranging ...

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Motohiro Kawashima is a Japanese music producer and DJ. He is best known for his collaborations with composer Yuzo Koshiro on several video games, such as ''Streets of Rage 2'' and '' Streets of Rage 3''. Biography Kawashima was born in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefect ...

- ''

Batman Returns ''Batman Returns'' is a 1992 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton and written by Daniel Waters. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, it is the sequel to ''Batman'' (1989) and the second installment in the 1989–1997 ''Batman ...

'' (Sega 8-bit versions), '' Streets of Rage'' series *

Hiroki Kikuta is a Japanese video game composer and game designer. His major works are ''Secret of Mana'', ''Trials of Mana'', ''Soukaigi'', and ''Koudelka'', for which he also acted as producer and concept designer. He has composed music for seven other game ...

– ''

Secret of Mana ''Secret of Mana'', originally released in Japan as is a 1993 action role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the sequel to the 1991 game ''Seiken Densetsu'', rele ...

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Seiken Densetsu 3 ''Trials of Mana'', also known by its Japanese title is a 1995 action role-playing game developed and published by Square (video game company), Square (now Square Enix) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom. It is the seq ...

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Soukaigi ''Soukaigi'' is an action role-playing game developed by Yuke's and published by Square for the PlayStation in 1998. It was later re-released digitally for the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. No version of the game was l ...

'', '' Koudelka'' *

Grant Kirkhope Grant Kirkhope is a Scottish-American composer and voice actor for video games and film. Some of his notable works include '' GoldenEye 007'', ''Banjo-Kazooie'', ''Donkey Kong 64'', and '' Perfect Dark'', among many others. He has been nominate ...

– '' Banjo-Kazooie'', ''

Donkey Kong 64 ''Donkey Kong 64'' is a 1999 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is the first 3D game in the '' Donkey Kong'' series. As the gorilla Donkey Kong, the player explores themed levels to collect it ...

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Banjo-Tooie ''Banjo-Tooie'' is a platform video game developed by Rare and originally released for the Nintendo 64 console in 2000. It is the second game in the '' Banjo-Kazooie'' series and the sequel to '' Banjo-Kazooie''. The game follows the returnin ...

'', '' GoldenEye 007'', ''

Perfect Dark ''Perfect Dark'' is a first-person shooter developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64 video game console in 2000. The first game of the '' Perfect Dark'' series, it follows Joanna Dark, an agent of the Carrington Institute research ...

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Blast Corps ''Blast Corps'' is an action game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. In the game, the player uses vehicles to destroy buildings in the path of a runaway nuclear missile carrier. In the game's 57 levels, the pl ...

'' * Frank Klepacki – All of

Westwood Studios Westwood Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Brelous Software, but got changed after 2 months into Westwood Associates and was renamed to Westw ...

' games while the developer was independent, including the popular Command & Conquer series. *

Chris Kline Chris Kline is an American artist/musician best known as "Vertexguy" or the "Vertex Guy". His artwork and music is present in several video games spanning more than a dozen titles across several console and PC platforms. His guitar renditions ...

– '' Bionic Commando (2009)'', '' Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection'', '' Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection'' *

Mark Knight Mark Knight (born 1962) is an Australian cartoonist. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for the '' Herald Sun'', a daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne. Knight was also the last editorial cartoonist for one of the ''Herald Suns joint p ...

- '' Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown'', ''

Dungeon Keeper 2 ''Dungeon Keeper 2'' is a strategy game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1999 for Microsoft Windows. The sequel to ''Dungeon Keeper'', the player takes the role of a 'dungeon keeper', building and defending ...

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Civilization IV ''Civilization IV'' (also known as ''Sid Meier's Civilization IV'') is a 4X turn-based strategy computer game and the fourth installment of the ''Civilization'' series, and designed by Soren Johnson under the direction of Sid Meier and his vide ...

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Civilization V ''Sid Meier's Civilization V'' is a 4X video game in the ''Civilization'' series developed by Firaxis Games. The game was released on Microsoft Windows on September 21, 2010, on OS X on November 23, 2010, and on Linux on June 10, 2014. In ...

'', '' Elemental: Fallen Enchantress'', '' Civilization: Beyond Earth'', ''

Civilization VI ''Sid Meier's Civilization VI'' is a turn-based strategy 4X video game developed by Firaxis Games, published by 2K Games, and distributed by Take-Two Interactive. The mobile port was published by Aspyr Media. The latest entry into the ''Civiliz ...

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Saori Kobayashi is a video game composer and pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, am ...

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Panzer Dragoon ''Panzer Dragoon'' is a series of video games by Sega. The first three games were developed in the 1990s by Sega's Team Andromeda for the Sega Saturn. The fourth, ''Panzer Dragoon Orta'' (2002), was developed by Sega's Smilebit team for the X ...

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Super Mario Bros. is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The successor to the 1983 arcade game '' Mario Bros.'' and the first game in the ''Super Mario'' series, it was first released in 1985 for ...

'' series, ''The Legend of Zelda'' series, ''

Star Fox is an arcade style rail shooter and third person action-adventure video game series created by Shigeru Miyamoto, produced and published by Nintendo. The games follow the Star Fox combat team of anthropomorphic animals, led by chief protagon ...

'' series, '' Yume KouJou Doki Doki Panic'', ''

Shin Onigashima , often simply referred to as ''Shin Onigashima'', is an adventure game developed by Nintendo R&D4 and Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo. It was first released on two disk cards for the Family Computer Disk System. The first disk was releas ...

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The Mysterious Murasame Castle is an action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo and Human Entertainment and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System. It was released exclusively in Japan on April 14, 1986. The game was one of the early games released f ...

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' is a 2008 crossover fighting video game developed by Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The third installment in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series, it was announced at a pre-E3 2005 press conferenc ...

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Yuzo Koshiro is a Japanese composer and sound programmer. He is often regarded as one of the most influential innovators in chiptune and video game music, producing music in a number of genres including rock, jazz, symphonic, and various electronic genres ...

– '' Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin'' (with Michiru Yamane), ''

ActRaiser is a 1990 hybrid platformer, god game, and city-building game with light action RPG elements for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Quintet and published by Enix, combining traditional side-scrolling platforming with urban ...

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ActRaiser 2 ''ActRaiser 2'' is a side-scrolling platform game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Quintet and published by Enix in 1993. The game is a sequel to the original ''ActRaiser'', but the storyline is not directly connected to ...

'', '' Ys'' series, '' Streets of Rage'' series, '' Revenge of Shinobi'', '' Super Adventure Island'', ''

Etrian Odyssey ''Etrian Odyssey'' is a dungeon crawler role-playing video game series. It is primarily developed and published by Atlus and currently owned by Sega. By 2016, the series had sold a combined total of 1.5 million copies worldwide. Titles Main se ...

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Taro Kudo is a Japanese video game designer and video game music composer. He began his career working for Konami and Square in the 1990s, then joined fellow ex-Square designers at Love-de-Lic in 1996, where he designed '' UFO: A Day in the Life''. Kudo no ...

– '' Axelay'', '' Super Castlevania IV'' (with Masanori Adachi) * Kukeiha Club – see KONAMI KuKeiHa CLUB *

Jesper Kyd Jesper Kyd Jakobson (; born 3 February 1972) is a Danish composer and sound designer who has worked on various video game, television, and film projects. He has composed soundtracks for the ''Hitman'' series, ''Assassin's Creed'' series, '' Bord ...

– '' Hitman series'', '' Freedom Fighters'', ''

MDK2 ''MDK2'' is a 2000 third-person shooter, Action-adventure game, action-adventure video game developed by BioWare and published by Interplay Entertainment for the Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows, Windows and PlayStation 2. It is a sequel to the 1997 ...

'', '' Adventures of Batman & Robin'', '' Assassin's Creed'', ''

Borderlands A borderland or borderlands are the geographical space or zone around a territorial border. Borderland or borderlands may refer to: Places * Borderland, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia * Borderland (ele ...

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Monkey Island ''Monkey Island'' is a series of adventure games. The first four games in the series were produced and published by LucasArts, earlier known as Lucasfilm Games. The fifth installment of the franchise was developed by Telltale Games in collabor ...

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Tim Larkin Tim Larkin is a composer and sound designer for Valve Corporation, Valve. Previously the audio director for Cyan Worlds, who produced the Myst series of Video game, computer games. Before working at Valve, he worked at Cyan, working as a sound de ...

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realMyst ''Myst'' is a graphic adventure/puzzle video game designed by the Miller brothers, Robyn and Rand. It was developed by Cyan, Inc., published by Broderbund, and initially released for the Macintosh in 1993. In the game, the player's character ...

'', '' Uru: Ages Beyond Myst'', ''

Pariah (video game) ''Pariah'' is a first-person shooter video game developed by Digital Extremes. It was released in May 2005 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. It uses a modified version of the Unreal Engine and the Havok physics engine. A PlayStation 2 version was ...

'', '' Myst V: End of Ages'' * Jean-Marc Lederman – Atlantis, Atlantis Sky Patrol, Fairies, Mystic Inn, Titanic Hidden Expedition, Snow Racer 1998, Solar Crusade, Turbogems, Fever Frenzy, SocioTown, Force of Arms *

Barry Leitch Barry Leitch (born April 27, 1970 in Strathaven, Scotland) is a Scottish video game music composer, responsible for the music in many games spanning multiple consoles and personal computers. Most notable is his work from the '' Lotus Turbo Challen ...

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Gauntlet Dark Legacy ''Gauntlet Dark Legacy'' is an arcade video game released in 1999. It is the sixth title in the '' Gauntlet'' series, and is an expansion of the previous title in the series, '' Gauntlet Legends''. The expansion adds five new levels, and four new ...

, Rush 2, Rush 2049, Spider, Privateer Righteous Fire, '' TFX'', Lotus 2, Utopia, Top Gear, Pixter, Supercars 2 *

Christopher Lennertz Christopher Joseph Lennertz (born January 2, 1972) is an American composer, songwriter, and conductor of film, television, and video game scores. His musical scores appeared in ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'', '' Hop'', '' Think Like a Man'', and '' ...

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Scalebound was an action role-playing game developed by PlatinumGames from 2013 until its cancellation in 2017. It was scheduled to be released in 2017 for Xbox One and Windows, but Microsoft Studios announced its cancellation in January 2017. In the game, p ...

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Paul Leonard-Morgan Paul Leonard-Morgan (born 1974) is a Scottish composer particularly known for his work in scoring for television and film. He won a Scottish BAFTA for the film ''Reflections upon the Origin of the Pineapple'' (2000), which was his first film sco ...

– '' Battlefield Hardline'', '' Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III'', ''

Cyberpunk 2077 ''Cyberpunk 2077'' is a 2020 action role-playing video game developed by CD Projekt Red and published by CD Projekt. Set in Night City, an open world set in the ''Cyberpunk'' universe, players assume the role of a customisable mercenary kn ...

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Daniel Licht Daniel Licht (March 13, 1957 – August 2, 2017) was an American soundtrack composer and musician, best known for writing the score of Showtime TV drama series ''Dexter''. Life and career Licht grew up in suburban Detroit and attended the Roep ...

– '' Silent Hill: Downpour'', ''

Dishonored ''Dishonored'' is a 2012 action-adventure game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Set in the fictional, plague-ridden industrial city of Dunwall, ''Dishonored'' follows the story of Corvo Attano, bodyguard to th ...

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Russell Lieblich Russell Lieblich (March 2, 1953 – January 26, 2005) was a game designer, programmer and musician who first came to prominence for his music for Activision and Intellivision games, as well as doing the Commodore 64 (C64) music translation of one ...

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Jun Maeda is a Japanese writer and co-founder of the visual novel brand Key under Visual Arts. He is considered a pioneer of nakige visual novels, and has mainly contributed as a scenario writer, lyricist, and musical composer for the games the company ...

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Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...

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Air The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, known collectively as air, retained by Earth's gravity that surrounds the planet and forms its planetary atmosphere. The atmosphere of Earth protects life on Earth by creating pressure allowing f ...

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Clannad Clannad () is an Irish band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal by siblings Ciarán, Pól, and Moya Brennan and their twin uncles Noel and Pádraig Duggan. They have adopted various musical styles throughout their history, including ...

'', '' Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life'', '' Little Busters!'', '' Rewrite'' *

Josh Mancell Josh Mancell (born November 13, 1969) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who writes music for film, television, and video games. He is best known for his work on the ''Crash Bandicoot'' and ''Jak and Daxter'' series of video games. ...

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'' (first four games), ''

Interstate '82 ''Interstate '82'' is a vehicular combat video game developed and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows in November 1999. Setting The game is set in the Southwestern United States in an alternate version of the year 1982, during the Rea ...

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Mark Mothersbaugh Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (; born May 18, 1950) is an American composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, lead singer and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, whose " Whip It" was a top 20 ...

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Jak and Daxter ''Jak and Daxter'' is an action-adventure video game franchise created by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin and owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The series was originally developed by Naughty Dog with a number of installments being outsourc ...

'' Trilogy, ''The Condemned'', ''The Megalex'', ''Johnny Mnemonic'' *

Mark Mancina Mark Mancina is an American film composer. A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures, Mancina has scored over sixty films and television series including ''Speed'', '' Bad Boys'', ''Twister'', ''Tarzan'', ''Training Day'', ''Brother Bear'', ''Cr ...

* Christopher Mann – '' Independence War Deluxe Edition'' and '' Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos'' *

Kevin Manthei Kevin Manthei (born 1970 in Maplewood, Minnesota) is an American composer for film, television, and video games. Biography Manthei grew up in Minnesota. He played the piano in his youth and played the trumpet in high school. He graduated from th ...

– ''

Kung Fu Panda ''Kung Fu Panda'' is an American media franchise that originally started in 2008 with the release of the animated feature film of the same name, produced by DreamWorks Animation. Following the adventures of the titular Po Ping (primarily voic ...

'', '' Marvel Universe Online'', ''

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Xiaolin Showdown ''Xiaolin Showdown'' is an American animated television series that aired on Kids' WB and was created by Christy Hui. Set in a world where martial arts battles and Eastern magic are commonplace, the series follows Omi, Raimundo, Kimiko, and Cl ...

'', ''

Ultimate Spider-Man ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' is a superhero comic book series that was published by Marvel Comics from 2000 to 2011. The series is a modernized re-imagining of Marvel's long-running Spider-Man comic book franchise as part of the company's Ultimate ...

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Kill Switch A kill switch, also known as an emergency stop (E-stop), emergency off (EMO) and as an emergency power off (EPO), is a safety mechanism used to shut off machinery in an emergency, when it cannot be shut down in the usual manner. Unlike a normal ...

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Twisted Metal Black ''Twisted Metal: Black'' is a vehicular combat video game developed by Incognito Entertainment and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for the PlayStation 2 video game console. Santa Monica Studio assisted on development. It is a r ...

'', '' Civilization II'' * Jerry Martin – '' SimCity 4: Rush Hour'' *

Junichi Masuda is a Japanese video game composer, director, designer, producer, singer, programmer and trombonist, best known for his work in the '' Pokémon'' franchise. He was a member of Game Freak where he was an employee and executive at the company si ...

– ''Pokémon'' video game series, '' Pulseman'', '' Mario & Wario'' *

Noriko Matsueda is a Japanese former video game composer. She is best known for her work on the '' Front Mission'' series, '' The Bouncer'', and ''Final Fantasy X-2''. Matsueda collaborated with fellow composer Takahito Eguchi on several games. Composing music ...

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Bahamut Lagoon is a 1996 tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square for the Super Famicom. ''Bahamut Lagoon'' was released on the Virtual Console in Japan on September 29, 2009 for the Wii and on February 5, 2014 for the Wii U. Gameplay ''B ...

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Chrono Trigger is a 1995 role-playing video game developed and published by Square. It was originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as the first game in the ''Chrono'' series. The game's development team included three designers th ...

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XCOM 2 ''XCOM 2'' is a 2016 turn-based tactics video game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. It is the sequel to 2012's reboot of the series, '' XCOM: Enemy Unknown''; it takes place 20 years after the events of ''Enemy Unknown''. ...

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Peter McConnell Peter Nelson McConnell (born April 19, 1960), also known as Peter Mc, is an American video game composer and musician, best known for his work at LucasArts and for composing the soundtracks for every '' Sly Cooper'' game since the second insta ...

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Grim Fandango ''Grim Fandango'' is a 1998 adventure game directed by Tim Schafer and developed and published by LucasArts for Microsoft Windows. It is the first adventure game by LucasArts to use 3D computer graphics overlaid on pre-rendered static backgroun ...

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Psychonauts ''Psychonauts'' is a 2005 platform video game developed by Double Fine Productions. The game was initially published by Majesco Entertainment and THQ for Microsoft Windows, Xbox and PlayStation 2. In 2011, Double Fine acquired the rights for t ...

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Bear McCreary Bear McCreary (born February 17, 1979) is an American musician and composer of film, television, and video game scores based in Los Angeles, California. His work includes the scores of the television series ''Battlestar Galactica'' (2004), ''Age ...

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God of War A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed. They occur commonly in both monotheistic and polytheistic religions. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been p ...

'', '' SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs'', ''

Dark Void ''Dark Void'' is a video game developed by Airtight Games using the Unreal Engine 3 and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. In the game, players must face an alien threat that humanity had previously banished ...

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Tomb Raider ''Tomb Raider'', also known as ''Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' from 2001 to 2008, is a media franchise that originated with an action-adventure video game series created by British gaming company Core Design. Formerly owned by Eidos Interactive, ...

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Robyn Miller Robyn Charles Miller (born August 6, 1966) is the co-founder of Cyan Worlds (originally Cyan) with brother Rand Miller. He served as co-designer of the popular computer game ''Myst'', which held the title of best-selling computer game from it ...

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Myst ''Myst'' is a graphic adventure/puzzle video game designed by the Miller brothers, Robyn and Rand. It was developed by Cyan, Inc., published by Broderbund, and initially released for the Macintosh in 1993. In the game, the player's charact ...

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Riven ''Riven'' is a Adventure game#Puzzle adventure, puzzle adventure video game. It is the sequel to ''Myst'' and second in the Myst (series), ''Myst'' series of games. Developed by Cyan Worlds, it was initially published by Red Orb Entertainment, a ...

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Toru Minegishi is a Japanese video game composer known for his work on Nintendo games, most notably in ''The Legend of Zelda'' and ''Splatoon'' series. He was raised in a musical family and developed an interest in video games and their music from an early ...

– '' The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask'', '' The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker'' (with Koji Kondo, Kenta Nagata and Hajime Wakai), ''

Splatoon is a third-person shooter video game franchise created by Hisashi Nogami, and developed and owned by Nintendo. Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth inhabited by anthropomorphic marine animals, the series centers around fictional cephalopods known ...

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Yasunori Mitsuda is a Japanese composer, musician, and sound producer. He is best known for his work in video games, primarily for the ''Chrono'', '' Xeno'', ''Shadow Hearts'', and ''Inazuma Eleven'' franchises, among various others. Mitsuda began composing musi ...

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Mario Party is a party video game series featuring characters from the ''Mario'' franchise in which up to four local players or computer-controlled characters (called " CPUs") compete in a board game interspersed with minigames. The games are currentl ...

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Xenogears ''Xenogears'' is a 1998 role-playing video game developed and published by Square (video game company), Square for the PlayStation (console), PlayStation video game console. It is the debut entry in the larger ''Xeno (series), Xeno'' franchise. ...

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Xenosaga ''Xenosaga'' is a role-playing video game series developed by Monolith Soft and primarily published by Namco. Forming part of the wider '' Xeno'' metaseries, ''Xenosaga'' is set in a science fiction universe and follows a group of characters as t ...

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Chrono Cross is a 1999 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. It is set in the same world as ''Chrono Trigger'', which was released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. ''Chrono C ...

'', '' Front Mission: Gun Hazard'' (with Nobuo Uematsu, Junya Nakano, and Masashi Hamauzu), ''

Radical Dreamers ''Radical Dreamers'' is a 1996 text-based visual novel adventure video game developed and published by Square for the Satellaview, a satellite peripheral for the Super Famicom. It forms part of the ''Chrono'' series, acting as a side story to ...

'', '' Legaia 2: Duel Saga'', ''

Shadow Hearts ''Shadow Hearts'' is a series of role-playing video games, consisting of a trilogy of titles for the PlayStation 2 (PS2) and their predecessor '' Koudelka'' for the PlayStation. The entire series was developed by Sacnoth (later Nautilus); ''Ko ...

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Yuu Miyake is a Japanese composer and sound engineer formally for Bandai Namco Entertainment. His most known work surfaced with ''Katamari Damacy'' soundtracks, on which he served as a sound director. Other notable works include various tracks in the ''Tekke ...

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'', '' Final Fantasy X'' *Akito Nakatsuka – ''Zelda II: The Adventure of Link'', ''Ice Climber'' *Junichi Nakatsuru – Soul (series), ''Soul'' series, ''Ace Combat'' series, ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U'' *Manabu Namiki – ''Battle Garegga'', ''Armed Police Batrider'', ''DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou'', ''Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi'', ''Espgaluda'', ''Mushihimesama'', ''Deathsmiles'', ''Konami ReBirth'' series *Michiko Naruke – ''Wild Arms series, Wild Arms'' series *Tomohito Nishiura – ''Dark Cloud'', ''Dark Cloud 2'' *Graeme Norgate – ''TimeSplitters (video game), TimeSplitters'', ''TimeSplitters 2'', ''TimeSplitters: Future Perfect''

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*Lena Raine – ''Celeste (singer), Celeste'', ''Minecraft'', ''Chicory: A Colorful Tale'', ''

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*Toshihiko Sahashi – ''Blue Stinger'' *Sakari – Independent game musicians from around the world. *Hitoshi Sakimoto – ''Super Hockey '94'', ''Radiant Silvergun'', ''

'', ''Final Fantasy Tactics Advance'', ''Final Fantasy XII'', ''Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter'', '' Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together'' (with Masaharu Iwata) *Motoi Sakuraba – ''Tales (video game series), Tales'' Series (with Shinji Tamura), ''Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori'', ''Star Ocean'' series, ''Golden Sun'' series, Hiouden Series, Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth, ''Valkyrie Profile'', ''Mario Tennis'' and ''Mario Golf'' series, ''Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, Baten Kaitos'' series, ''Mario Sports Superstars'' *Tom Salta – ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter'', ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2'', ''Cold Fear'', ''Red Steel'', ''Need For Speed Underground 2'', ''The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift'', ''Project Gotham Racing 3'', '' Full Auto 2: Battlelines'' *Michael Salvatori – ''Halo series'', ''Destiny (video game), Destiny'' series *George Sanger (musician), George 'The Fat Man' Sanger – ''Wing Commander (video game), Wing Commander'', ''The 7th Guest'', ''Master of Orion'' *Nobuyoshi Sano – ''Drakengard (video game), Drakengard'', Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (PS2), ''

'' series, ''Tekken (series), Tekken'' series * Gustavo Santaolalla – ''The Last of Us'' series *Ryuji Sasai – ''Final Fantasy Mystic Quest'', ''Bushido Blade 2'', ''Final Fantasy Legend III'' (with Chihiro Fujioka), ''Rudora no Hihou'' (Rudra's Secret Treasure), ''Tobal No.1'' (with Yasunori Mitsuda, Masashi Hamauzu, Kenji Ito, Yasuhiro Kawakami, Junya Nakano, Yoko Shimomura & Noriko Matsueda), ''Xak'' (with Tadahiro Nitta) *Tenpei Sato – ''Marl Kingdom'' series, ''Disgaea: Hour of Darkness'', ''Phantom Brave'' *Kan Sawada *Hiroyuki Sawano – ''Xenoblade Chronicles X'' *Kazuo Sawa – ''Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun, Nekketsu Kouha: Kunio-Kun'', ''River City Ransom'', ''Super Dodge Ball'' * Sarah Schachner - ''Assassin's Creed Origins'', ''Assassin's Creed Valhalla'', ''Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare'', ''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019 video game), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare'' *Brian L. Schmidt – ''NARC (video game)'', ''John Madden Football'' and many others. *Garry Schyman – ''Voyeur computer game, Voyeur'', ''Destroy All Humans!'', ''BioShock'', ''Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor'' *Andrew Sega – ''

'', ''

'', ''Freelancer (video game), Freelancer'', ''Crusader (game series), Crusader'' series *Mark Seibert – ''Quest for Glory'' series, ''King's Quest'' series *Tsuyoshi Sekito – ''All-Star Pro Wrestling'' series, ''Brave Fencer Musashi'', ''Final Fantasy II'' (WonderSwan Color and ''Final Fantasy Origins'' versions), ''

'' (PlayStation version), ''Romancing SaGa, Romancing SaGa: Minstrel's Song'', ''Final Fantasy VII Advent Children'', ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project'' *Jun Senoue – ''Sonic the Hedgehog (series), Sonic the Hedgehog'' series, ''

'', ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U'' *Alex Seropian – ''Marathon (computer game), Marathon'' *Russell Shaw (composer), Russell Shaw – ''Dungeon Keeper'', ''Syndicate (1993 video game), Syndicate'', ''Fable (2004 video game), Fable'' and ''Fable 2'' *Laura Shigihara – ''To The Moon'', ''Finding Paradise'', ''Plants vs. Zombies'', ''Rakuen (video game), Rakuen'', ''Quintessence: The Blighted Venom'' and ''High School Story'' *Go Shiina – ''Tales (video game series), Tales'', ''Mr. Driller'', ''The Idolmaster'', ''God Eater'' series *Yoko Shimomura – ''Street Fighter II'', ''Front Mission'' series, ''Live-A-Live'', ''Super Mario RPG'' (with Nobuo Uematsu and Koji Kondo), ''Parasite Eve (video game), Parasite Eve'', ''Legend of Mana'', ''Mario & Luigi (series), Mario & Luigi'' series, ''Kingdom Hearts (series), Kingdom Hearts'' series, ''Final Fantasy XV'' *Mark Snow – ''Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain'', ''Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror'' *Masayoshi Soken – ''Mario Hoops 3-on-3'', ''Mario Sports Mix'', ''Final Fantasy XIV'' *Maribeth Solomon - ''Sunless Sea'', ''Sunless Skies'' *Jeremy Soule – ''Secret of Evermore'', ''Total Annihilation'', ''Icewind Dale series, Icewind Dale'', ''Neverwinter Nights (2002 video game), Neverwinter Nights'', ''The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Morrowind'', ''The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Oblivion'', ''The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Skyrim'', ''Dungeon Siege'', ''Guildwars'', ''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'' series, ''Prey (2006 video game), Prey (2006)'' *Christopher Stevens (musician), Christopher Stevens – ''Syphon Filter 3'' * Martin Stig Andersen – ''Limbo (video game), Limbo'', ''Inside (video game), Inside'', '' Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus'' *Koichi Sugiyama – ''Dragon Quest'' series, ''E.V.O.: Search for Eden'', ''Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer'', ''Gandara'', ''Hanjuku Hero'' series, ''Itadaki Street 2: Neon Sign wa Bara Iro ni, Itadaki Street 2: Neon Sign ha Bara Shoku ni'', ''Monopoly (game), Monopoly'' (Japanese version), ''Wingman'', ''Wingman Special'', Tetris 2+BomBliss *Keiichi Suzuki – ''Mother (video game), Mother'', ''EarthBound''

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* Bobby Tahouri – ''Rise of the Tomb Raider'', ''Marvel's Avengers (video game), Marvel's Avengers'' *Masafumi Takada – ''killer7'', ''God Hand'', ''No More Heroes (video game), No More Heroes'', ''Earth Defense Force'', ''Danganronpa'' *Yukihide Takekawa – ''Soul Blazer'' *Tommy Tallarico – ''Advent Rising'', ''Earthworm Jim (video game), Earthworm Jim'' series (''Earthworm Jim 2'' on), ''Spot Goes To Hollywood'', ''MDK (game), MDK'', ''Maximo: Ghosts to Glory'', ''Wild 9'' *Hirokazu Tanaka, Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka – ''Balloon Fight'', ''EarthBound'', ''Kid Icarus'', ''Metroid'', ''Mother (video game), Mother'', ''Super Mario Land'', ''Tetris'' *Kohei Tanaka (composer), Kōhei Tanaka – ''Paladin's Quest'', ''Lennus 2'' (''Paladin's Quest 2''), ''Xardion'', Alundra, ''Sakura Wars'' series *Kumi Tanioka – ''Final Fantasy XI'', ''Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (series), Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles'', ''Code Age Commanders'' *Mikko Tarmia – ''Amnesia: The Dark Descent'', ''Penumbra (video game series), The Penumbra Series'', ''Overgrowth (video game), Overgrowth'' *Tsukasa Tawada – ''Super Earth Defense Force'', ''Ihatovo Monogatari'', ''Thoroughbred Breeder (series)'' *Jeroen Tel – ''Cybernoid'', ''Cybernoid II'', ''Eliminator (1988 video game), Eliminator'', ''Turbo Outrun'' *Soichi Terada – ''Ape Escape'' series (except ''Ape Escape 2'') *Chance Thomas – ''Lord of the Rings Online'', ''Left Behind: Eternal Forces'', ''Marvel Ultimate Alliance'', ''X-Men: The Official Game'', ''The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring'', ''Unreal II: The Awakening'' *Chris Tilton – ''Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction'', ''Black (video game), Black'', ''Assassin's Creed Unity'' *Christopher Tin – ''

'', ''

'' *Magome Togoshi – ''

'', ''

'', ''Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet'', '' Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life'', '' Little Busters!'' *Kazumi Totaka – ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'', ''Yoshi's Story'', ''Animal Crossing'' series, ''Luigi's Mansion'' (with Shinobu Tanaka), ''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening'' (with Akito Nakamura, Minako Hamano & Koji Kondo), ''

'', ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U'' *Yuka Tsujiyoko – ''Fire Emblem'' series, ''Paper Mario'', ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' *Brian Tyler - ''Lego Universe'', ''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3'', ''Need for Speed: The Run'', ''Far Cry 3'', ''Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel'', ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'' *Jeff Tymoschuk – ''James Bond: Nightfire'', ''DeathSpank'' series, ''Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Penny Arcade'' series, ''Sleeping Dogs (video game), Sleeping Dogs''

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*Matt Uelmen – ''Diablo (computer game), Diablo'', ''Diablo II'', ''StarCraft'', ''World of Warcraft'' *Tatsuya Uemura – ''Performan'', ''Tiger-Heli'', ''Flying Shark'', ''Twin Cobra'', ''Hellfire (video game), Hellfire'', ''Zero Wing'', ''Out Zone'', ''Dogyuun'' *Nobuo Uematsu – ''Final Fantasy'' series (except '' Final Fantasy XIII'' Trilogy and ''Final Fantasy XV''), ''Apple Town Monogatari'', ''Cruise Chaser Blassty'', ''King's Knight'', ''DynamiTracer'', '' Front Mission: Gun Hazard'' (with Yasunori Mitsuda and Junya Nakano), ''Ehrgeiz'', ''Makaitoushi SaGa'' (''Final Fantasy Legend I''), ''SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu'' (''Final Fantasy Legend II'') (with Kenji Ito), ''Rad Racer'', ''Romancing SaGa 1'' and ''2'' (one song in former and two songs in latter), ''

'' (with Yasunori Mitsuda and Noriko Matsueda), ''Super Mario RPG'' (with Yoko Shimomura and Koji Kondo), ''Blue Dragon (video game), Blue Dragon'', ''Lost Odyssey'', ''

'' (Main Theme), and ''The Last Story''

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*Michiel van den Bos – ''

'', ''Age of Wonders'', ''

'', ''

'', ''Overlord (2007 video game), Overlord'' *Jeff van Dyck – Audio Director of The Creative Assembly (''Total War (video game series), Total War'' franchise), Electronic Arts sports games (e.g. ''Need for Speed series, Need for Speed'') *Cris Velasco – ''Hellgate: London'', ''God of War (2005 video game), God of War'', ''

'', ''ZombiU'' *Neil D. Voss – ''Tetrisphere'', ''The New Tetris'', ''Racing Gears Advance'' and others. *Rich Vreeland – ''Puzzle Agent'', ''Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter'', ''Fez (video game), Fez'', ''Runner 2'', ''Hyper Light Drifter'' *Chris Vrenna – ''American McGee's Alice'', ''Doom 3'', ''Quake 4''

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*Jph Wacheski *Jack Wall (composer), Jack Wall – ''Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow'', ''Myst III: Exile'', ''Myst IV: Revelation'', ''Jade Empire'', ''Mass Effect series'' *Guy Whitmore – ''

'', ''

'', ''Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza'', ''Shivers (computer game), Shivers'', ''No One Lives Forever'' *David Whittaker (video game composer), David Whittaker – many games for Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64 and Amiga platforms, including ''Amaurote'', ''BMX Simulator'', ''Colony (computer game), Colony'', ''Grand Prix Simulator'', ''Panther (computer game), Panther'', ''Speedball (video game), Speedball'', ''Shadow of the Beast (1989 video game), Shadow of the Beast'' and ''Obliterator'' *Austin Wintory - ''Journey (2012 video game), Journey'', ''flOw'', ''Monaco: What's Yours is Mine'', ''Tooth and Tail'', ''Assassin's Creed Syndicate'', ''Abzu'' * David Wise – All NES games by Rare (company), Rare, ''

'' series, ''Diddy Kong Racing'', ''Jet Force Gemini'', ''Star Fox Adventures'', ''Wizards & Warriors (Windows video game), Wizards and Warriors'' series *Jezz Woodroffe - Composed music to the two Horror Soft titles Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus with Philip Nixon, and Waxworks (1992 video game), Waxworks. *Tim Wright (Welsh musician), Tim Wright – Welsh composer who goes by the name CoLD SToRAGE, known for his work on Shadow of the Beast II, Shadow of the Beast III, Agony (1992 video game), Agony, Lemmings (video game), Lemmings, ''Wipeout (game), Wipeout'' and Colony Wars (video game), Colony Wars

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*Kenji Yamamoto (composer born 1958), Kenji Yamamoto – ''List of Dragon Ball video games, Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 1, 2, & 3'' (#1: with Kumagorou; #2: with Switch-E, Kumatarou; #3: with Amayang, Chatrasch, Switch-E), ''List of Dragon Ball video games, Dragon Ball Z: Super Goku Den 1 & 2'', ''List of Dragon Ball video games, Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22'', ''List of Dragon Ball video games, Dragon Ball Z: The Legend'', ''Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout, Dragon Ball: Final Bout'', ''Dragon Ball Z: Budokai (series), Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 1, 2, & 3'', ''Dragon Ball Z: Budokai (series), Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 1 & 2'', ''Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu, Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Goku Densetsu'', ''Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit'', ''Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World''. *Kenji Yamamoto (composer born 1964), Kenji Yamamoto – ''Super Metroid'' (with Minako Hamano), ''Metroid Prime'' series, ''Metroid: Zero Mission'', ''Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shōjo, Famicom Tantei Club Part II'', ''

'', ''Donkey Kong Country Returns'' (with Minako Hamano and Masaru Tajima) *

– ''Twinbee'' (Nintendo Entertainment System, NES), ''Castlevania: Bloodlines'', ''Castlevania: Symphony of the Night'', ''Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance'' (with Soshiro Hokkai), ''Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow'' (with Soshiro Hokkai and Takashi Yoshida), ''Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow'', ''Castlevania: Lament of Innocence'', ''Castlevania: Curse of Darkness'', '' Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin'' (with Yuzo Koshiro), ''Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles'', ''Gungage'' (with Sōta Fujimori), ''Genso suikoden III'' (with Tadashi Yoshida and Masahiko Kimura) *Akira Yamaoka – ''Silent Hill'' series, ''Contra: Shattered Soldier'' * Kinuyo Yamashita – ''Castlevania'', ''Esper Dream'', ''Arumana no Kiseki'', ''Stinger'', ''Maze of Galious'', ''

'', ''Medabot'', ''Bass Masters Classic'', ''Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue'', ''WWF WrestleMania 2000 (video game), WWF WrestleMania 2000'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wrath of the Darkhul King, Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''

'', ''Monsters, Inc.'', ''WWF Road to WrestleMania'', ''Power Rangers: Dino Thunder'', ''Keitai Denjū Telefang'' *Mahito Yokota – ''Donkey Kong Jungle Beat'', ''Super Mario Galaxy'' series, ''The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword'', ''New Super Mario Bros. U'', ''Super Mario Odyssey'' *Kenneth C M Young, Kenneth Young – ''Media Molecule'', London Studio : ''LittleBigPlanet'' series, ''Tearaway (video game), Tearaway'' series *Yes (band), Yes - ''Homeworld''

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*Hans Zimmer – '' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'', ''Crysis 2'', FIFA 19 *Team Shanghai Alice, ZUN – ''Touhou'' *Zuntata (Taito's sound team) *Inon Zur – ''Prince of Persia'' series, ''Crysis'', ''

'', ''Fallout 3'', ''Fallout New Vegas'', ''Dragon Age: Origins''

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