Kenji Yamamoto (Nintendo musician)

Kenji Yamamoto (山本 健誌 "Yamamoto Kenji") is a Japanese video game musician working for Nintendo. He was born on April 25, 1964. It was also recently explained that he plays a role as a Music Director at Nintendo, overseeing the audio for a variety of Nintendo titles. He is credited with creating the soundtracks of the following games:

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*"Excite Truck" (with Masaru Tajima)
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*"Galactic Pinball"
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*"Mario Kart Super Circuit" (sound support)
*"Metroid Fusion" (as sound designer)
*"Metroid Prime"
*"Metroid Prime Hunters" (as sound supervisor)
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*"Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!"
*"Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival" (sound support)
*"Super Metroid" (with Minako Hamano)

Also, Kenji Yamamoto contributed with other video game composers for "Super Smash Bros. Brawl". [ [http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music01.html Smash Bros. DOJO!! ] ]

In a recent interview with Music4Games (his first with an English-speaking media outlet), Yamamoto detailed his expeience working on the Metroid Prime trilogy. He described his thoughts on the inclusion of themes from Super Metroid as well as his composition process and sources of inspiration. He fully intends to continue working on the Metroid series into the future.

Reference(s)

* [http://ng-stg.hp.infoseek.co.jp/gm/name/ya.html] : Credited Works (in Japanese)
* [http://metroid.retrofaction.com/resources/m4staff.php] : Metroid Fusion staff credits
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKwxeCWKHl4&NR] : Castlevania 64 staff credits
* [http://www.music4games.net/Features_Display.aspx?id=174] : Interview with Music4Games

References

External links

* [http://www.music4games.net/Features_Display.aspx?id=174 First English Interview] with Music4Games
* [http://www.ocremix.org/composer/id/82/kenji-yamamoto/ Composer profile] at OverClocked ReMix
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