Hirohiko Takayama

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Hirohiko Takayama
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Born May 5, 1966 (Age 45)
Birth Place Japan
Nationality Japanese   Japan.svg
Aliases
  • Hiro Takayama
Website www.aonmusic.com

Hirohiko Takayama is a Japanese composer and sound designer. He started working for Hudson Soft, scoring the music to their game Xexyz which made him a known composer. He also scored the music to a few games that have had bad reputations, such as The Karate Kid, or Friday the 13th. In 1998, he founded AON-DO where people could listen to samples of his latest work and buy them. Hiro also teaches at a college in Japan and writes books on music composing, software, etc. He currently runs his own website and sells his current music on iTunes. Takayama also taught music at a college in Japan.

Music Composition

Hirohiko: I've written several NES music on the MS-DOS assembly language as HEX code. But before that, composed with the piano and synthesizer.


Gameography


Released

Title

Sample

Unreleased Sunman (GB)
Unreleased Sunman (NES)
1987/11/?? Gotcha! (NES)
1987/11/?? The Karate Kid (NES)
1988/02/?? T&C Surf Designs (NES)
1988/8/26 亀の恩返し:浦島伝説 (FC) - Kame no Ongaeshi: Urashima Densetsu
1988/9/?? NFL Football (NES)
1988/9/12 King of Kings (FC)
1988/9/27 Erika to Satoru no Yumebouken (FC)
1989/02/?? Friday the 13th (NES)
1990/?/?? ビックリマン世界 (FC) - Bikkuriman World
1990/4/26 Xexyz (NES)
1990/8/10 パラレルワールド (FC) - Parralel World
1990/12/14 KLAX (GB)
1991/10/25 タイムゾーン (FC) - Time Zone
1992/07/31 Adventure Island III (NES)
1992/11/20 Lemmings (GEN)

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