List of video game musicians
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The following is a list of computer and video game musicians, those who have worked in the video game industry to produce video game soundtracks 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.
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- Andrew Barnabas - MediEvil
- Andrew G. Sega - Unreal
- Andy Brick - SimCity 4, The Sims 2
- Akihiko Mori - Mystic Arc, Wonder Project J series
- Akito Nakatsuka - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, "Ice Climber"
- Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill series, Contra: Shattered Soldier
- Allister Brimble - "Alien Breed" series, "All Terrain Racing", "Apache", "Arcade Pool" (and Arcade Pool CD³²), "Arcade Snooker", "Assasin", "Big Nose the Caveman", "Body Blows" (title music), "Body Blows Galactic", "Bubble and Squeak" (and Bubble and Squeak CD³²), "Championship Manager '93", "Championship Manager '94", "CJ's Elephant Antics", "Colonization", "Dojo Dan" (title and ingame theme), "Dungeon Master 2", "Fantasy World Dizzy", "Fast Food", "Fields of Glory", "Full Contact" (Intro, title and ingame music), "Goal!", "Impossible Mission 2025 - The Special Edition" (and Impossible Mission 2025 - The Special Edition CD³²), "The Incredible Crash Dummies", "Indy Heat", "Italy 1990", "Kamikaze", "Kingpin - Arcade Sports Bowling" (CD³²), "Kwik Snax", "The Lion King" (game from 1994), "The Lost Vikings" (with Charles Deenen), "Mean Machine", "Miami Chase" (title theme), "MIG-29 Soviet Fighter", "Mortal Kombat", "Mortal Kombat 2", "Nitro Boost Challenge", "Overdrive", "Primal Rage", "Project-X", "Pro Boxing Simulator", "Robin Hood - Legend Quest", "Rock Star Ate My Hamster", "SAS Combat Simulator", "Seymour Goes to Hollywood", "Sky High Stuntman", "Slightly Magic", "Space Gun" (Highscore theme), "Spellbound Dizzy", "Spellfire the Sorcerer", "Star Trek 25th Anniversary", "Subwar 2050", "Super Frog", "Super Grand Prix", "Super Loopz", "Super Seymour Saves the Planet", "The Sword and the Rose", "Terminator 2 Arcade", "Terry's Big Adventure", Thunderbirds", "Time Soldier", "Treasure Island Dizzy" (Amiga), "Troddlers", "Ultimate Body Blows" CD³² (Ingame, Highscore, Game Over and Continue theme), "Wacky Darts", "Waggle-O-Mania!!!", "Zeewolf", "Zeewolf 2"
- Atsushi Shirakawa - Ys V: Ushinawareta Sunano Miyako Kefin (from the Ys series)
- Aya Tanaka - "Mario Party 5"
B
- Bjørn Lynne - Worms series
C
- Charles Deenen - M.C. Kids, The Lost Vikings (with Allister Brimble)
- Chihiro Harada - Gitarooman
- Chiho Kobayashi - Key of Avalon
- Chris Hülsbeck - Apidya, Great Giana Sisters, Turrican series
- Clint Bajakian - Outlaws
- Club Kukeiha - See Kukeiha Club
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- Daisuke Ishiwatari - Guilty Gear series
- Dan Hess - Pilotwings 64
- David Whittaker - many games for Commodore 64 and Amiga platforms incl. Speedball, Shadow of the Beast and Obliterator
- David Wise (British) - Donkey Kong Country series, Jet Force Gemini, Star Fox Adventures
- Donnie Christianson - Damnation the Game, Posertrax music library
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F
- Fabian Del Priore - Main composer of the Merregnon project
- Frank Klepacki - the entire Command and Conquer series
G
- Gary Gilbertson - The Tail of Beta Lyrae, Alternate Reality.
- Garry Schyman - "Voyeur", "Destroy All Humans!"
- George 'The Fat Man' Sanger - Wing Commander (computer game), The 7th Guest, Master of Orion
- Grant Kirkhope - Banjo-Kazooie, GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark, Blast Corps
- Glenn Stafford - Justice League Task Force, The Lost Vikings, Blackthorne, Starcraft, Warcraft, Warcraft 2, Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Diablo 2
H
- Hajime Hirasawa
- Hannigan James - Catwoman, Republic: The Revolution BAFTA Nominated 2003, Freelancer, Brute Force, Sim Theme Park BAFTA Winner 2000, Grand Prix 4, Reign of Fire, Privateer: The Darkening, Evil Genius, Advance Wars: Under Fire, Blue Vault, Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, FIFA Soccer Manager, FA Premier League Manager BAFTA Nominated 2000, F1, Conquest: Frontier Wars, Infestation, Action Man, Sim Coaster, F1 Manager
- Harry Gregson-Williams - Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3
- Hidehito Aoki - Persona
- Hikoshi Hashimoto - Run Saber
- Hirohiko Takayama - Xexyz
- Hirokazu Ando - Super Smash Bros. series, Kirby's Dream Course
- Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka - Balloon Fight, Earthbound, Kid Icarus, Metroid, Super Mario Land; president of Pokémon Co.
- Hiroki Kikuta - Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3, Soukaigi, Koudelka
- Hiroshi Fujioka - Growlanser II
- Hitoshi Sakimoto - Super Hockey '94, Hourai Gakuen no Bouken, Radiant Silvergun, Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Final Fantasy XII, Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter
- Howard Drossin - Comix Zone, Sonic Spinball
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- Jason Hayes - World of Warcraft
- Jim Hedges - Soul Reaver 2
- Jeremy Soule - Secret of Evermore, Total Annihilation, Morrowind, Dungeon Siege
- Jeroen Tel - Cybernoid, Cybernoid II, Eliminator
- Jesper Kyd - Hitman: Codename 47, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts, Freedom Fighters, MDK2
- Jim Cuomo - Defender of the Crown
- Joe Mcdermott - Zombies Ate My Neighbors
- John Baker - Toejam & Earl series
- Jun Chiki Chikuma - "Faxanadu", "Adventure Island", "Bomberman" series
- Jun Ishikawa - Kirby series, Alcahest
- Junichi Masuda - Pokémon Red and Blue, Pokémon Gold and Silver, Pokémon Stadium, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
- Junya Nakano - Front Mission: Gun Hazard, Dew Prism (Threads of Fate in the U.S.), Tobal No. 1, Final Fantasy X
K
- Kazuki Muraoka - Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid
- Kazumi Totaka - Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Yoshi's Story, Doubutsu no Mori, Luigi's Mansion, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
- Kazuo Sawa - Nekketsu Kouha: Kunio-Kun, River City Ransom
- Kei Wakakusa - Elemental Gearbolt
- Keiichi Suzuki - Earthbound
- Kenji Ito - SaGa series, Seiken Densetsu 1, Koi ha Balance: Battle of Lovers, Tobal No. 1, Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu
- Kenji Yamamoto - Super Metroid (with Minako Hamano), Metroid Prime, Metroid Zero Mission, Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 2, Famicom Tantei Club 2, Hajimari no Mori
- Kentaro Haneda - Wizardry 1, 2, and 3; Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom
- Kohei Tanaka - Paladin's Quest, Lennus 2 (Paladin's Quest 2), Xardion
- Koichi Kyuma - Metroid Prime
- Koichi Sugiyama - Dragon Quest series, E.V.O.: Search for Eden, Furai No Siren, Gandara, Hanjyuku Hero series, Itadaki Street 2: Neon Sign ha Bara Iro ni, Monopoly (Japanese version), Syvalion, Wingman, Wingman Special
- Koji Kondo - Super Mario Bros. series (not all of the games though), The Legend of Zelda series, Star Fox series, Yume KouJou Doki Doki Panic, New Demon Island, The Mysterious Castle of Murasame
- Kukeiha Club - Castlevania I, II and III for the NES, among many others
- Kumi Tanioka - Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
- Kurt Harland - Soul Reaver
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- Manabu Namiki
- Mark Cooksey
- Mark Seibert - Quest for Glory series, King's Quest series
- Markus Holler - Stalker - Shadow of Chernobyl
- Martin Galway - Arkanoid, Hyper Sports, Rambo: First Blood Part 2, Slap Fight, Terra Cresta, Wizball, ... (C64 versions)
- Martin O'Donnell - Halo, Halo 2
- Masaharu Iwata - Final Fantasy Tactics (with Hitoshi Sakimoto), Stella Deus (with Hitoshi Sakimoto)
- Masanori Hikichi - Terranigma
- Masanori Oodachi - Super Castlevania 4 (With Sotaro Tojima, also known as Souji Taro)
- Masaru Nakajima - Ys V: Ushinawareta Sunano Miyako Kefin (from the Ys series)
- Masashi Hamauzu - SaGa Frontier 2, Tobal No. 1, Final Fantasy X (with Nobuo Uematsu and Junya Nakano)
- Matt Furniss - various games for the Sega Master System
- Matt Uelman - Warcraft 2, Diablo, Diablo 2
- Michael Giacchino - Medal of Honor series
- Michael Land - Monkey Island series, Star Wars games, The Dig
- Michiko Naruke - Wild ARMs series
- Michiru Oshima - Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Grey Wolf, ICO
- Michiru Yamane - Twinbee (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: Lament of Innocence, Gungage (with Sota Fujimori), Genso Suikoden III (with Tadashi Yoshida and Masahiko Kimura)
- Mieko Ishikawa - Ys V: Ushinawareta Sunano Miyako Kefin (from the Ys series)
- Miki Higashino - Genso Suikoden II, Genso Suikogaiden series
- Minako Hamano - Super Metroid (with Kenji Yamamoto), Metroid Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission
- Miyamo Shant - Guardian Legend and Zanac
- Miyoko Kobayashi - Terranigma
- Motoi Sakuraba - Tales of Phantasia, Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori, Zan 2 Spirits, Zan 3 Spirit, Star Ocean series, Golden Sun series
- Nakano Ritsuki (later known as Rikki) - Singer for Final Fantasy X main theme "Suteki Da Ne"
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- Naoki Kaneda - Ys V: Ushinawareta Sunano Miyako Kefin (from the Ys series)
- Naoshi Mizuta - Rockman & Forte, Parasite Eve 2, Final Fantasy XI and its expansion packs
- Naoto Ishida
- Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy series, Apple Town Monogatari, Cruise Chaser Blassity, 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), Rad Racer, Romancing SaGa 1 and 2 (one song in former and two songs in latter), Chrono Trigger (with Yasunori Mitsuda and Noriko Matsueda), Super Mario RPG (with Yoko Shimomura and Koji Kondo)
- Norihiko Hibino - Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, Zone of the Enders, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Boktai, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
- Norihiko Yamanuki - The 7th Saga
- Noriko Matsueda - Bahamut Lagoon, Chrono Trigger, Tobal No. 1, The Bouncer, Final Fantasy X-2
- Noriyuki Asakura - Tenchu - Stealth Assassins, Tenchu 2 - Birth of The Stealth Assassins, Tenchu 3 - Wrath of Heaven, Way of the Samurai, Way of the Samurai 2
- Noriyuki Iwadare - Lunar series, Grandia series, Growlanser
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- Richard Jacques - Sonic R, Metropolis Street Racer, Headhunter
- Rika Muranaka - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid series (all ending themes)
- Rob Hubbard - Many games for Commodore 64
- Robert Prince - Commander Keen 4-6, Catacomb 3D, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Doom, Rise of the Triad, Doom II, and Duke Nukem 3D
- Robin Beanland - Killer Instinct, Killer Instinct 2, Conker's Bad Fur Day, GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark
- Robyn Miller - Myst, Riven
- Ryuji Sasai - Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest, Bushido Blade 2, Jikkuno Hasha SaGa 3 (Final Fantasy Legend III), Rudora no Hihou
S
- Saki Haruyama - Fire Emblem: Seima no Kouseki
- Saori Kobayashi - Panzer Dragoon series
- Satoshi Arai - Ys V: Ushinawareta Sunano Miyako Kefin (from the Ys series)
- Shinji Hosoe - Metroid Prime, Xenosaga Episode II
- Shinobu Amayake - Stunt Race FX
- Souji Taro - Castlevania series, Axelay
- Stéphane Picq - Qin, Kult, Dune, Extase
- Steve Henifin - Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
- Stewart Copeland - Spyro the Dragon series
T
- Tadashi Ikegami - Super Smash Bros. Melee
- Takaheshi Yamazuke - Zool: Majou Tsukai Densetsu
- Takahito Eguchi - The Bouncer, Final Fantasy X-2
- Takayuki Iwai - X-Men vs. Street Fighter
- Tappy Iwase - Policenauts, Metal Gear Solid
- Taro Bando - Super Mario Kart, F-Zero X, F-Zero GX
- Tatsuya Uemura - Zero Wing
- Tenpei Sato - Marl series, Disgaea, Phantom Brave
- Tim Follin - Ghouls and Ghosts (Commodore Amiga and Commodore C64 versions), Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (Dreamcast), X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (Super Nintendo), and various assorted tracks for 8- and 16-bit videogames.
- Tim Wright - Wipeout, Wipeout 2097
- Tommy Tallarico - Earthworm Jim, Spot Goes To Hollywood, MDK, Maximo: Ghosts to Glory, Wild 9
- Tomohito Nishiura - Dark Cloud, Dark Cloud 2
- Toru Minegishi - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Toshihiko Horiyama - Mega Man X4
- Tsukasa Masuko - Shin Megami Tensei series, Blazeon, Kabuki Rocks (with Ichiban Ujigami), Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei
- Tsukasa Tawata - Super Earth Defense Force, Ihatova Monogatari, Thoroughbred Breeder 3
- Tsukumo Hyakutarou - Thunderforce V
- Tsuneo Imahori - Gungrave
- Tsuyoshi Sekito - All-Star Pro Wrestling series, Brave Fencer Musashi, Final Fantasy II (WonderSwan Color and Final Fantasy Origins versions), Chrono Trigger (PlayStation version), Romancing SaGa: Minstrel's Song, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
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- Yasuhiko Takashiba - Super Earth Defense Force, Tuff Enuff
- Yasuhiro Kawasaki - Illusion of Gaia
- Yasumasa Yamada - Fatal Fury series, Art of Fighting series
- Yasunori Mitsuda - Chrono Trigger, Front Mission: Gun Hazard (with Nobuo Uematsu and Junya Nakano), Radical Dreamers, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Legaia 2: Duel Saga, Shadow Hearts, Xenosaga
- Yasunori Shiono - Lufia series
- Yoko Kanna - Genghis Khan, Nobunaga's Ambition series
- Yoko Shimomura - Front Mission series, Live-A-Live, Super Mario RPG (with Nobuo Uematsu and Koji Kondo), Chocobo Stallion, Parasite Eve, Kingdom Hearts
- Yoshihiko Kitamura - Fire Emblem: Seima no Kouseki
- Yoshito Hirano - Fire Emblem: Seima no Kouseki
- Yuka Tsujiyoko - Fire Emblem series, Paper Mario
- Yukehide Takekawa - Soul Blazer
- Yuko Kadota - X-Men vs. Street Fighter
- Yumiko Kanki
- Yuzo Koshiro - ActRaiser, ActRaiser 2, Ys series, Streets of Rage series, Revenge of Shinobi