Kenji Yamamoto

Kenji Yamamoto

Local	山本健誌 (やまもとけんじ)
Born	1964-04-25 (Age 52)
Birth Place	Mie Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Aliases	K. Yamamoto, Metal Kenji

Not to be confused with Kenji Yamamoto.

Kenji Yamamoto is a Japanese composer and sound designer who worked with Nintendo. He was born April 25, 1964. He attended the Osaka University of Arts and obtained a music degree there. Coincidentally, Koji Kondo also attended there. He started working for Nintendo at age 23. His popular works include Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! and Super Metroid.

Gameography

Released	Title	Sample
1987-10-??	Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (NES)
1988-04-27	Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir - Prequel (FDS) (ファミコン探偵倶楽部消えた後継者前・前編)	Music Director
1988-06-14	Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir - Sequel (FDS) (ファミコン探偵倶楽部消えた後継者前・後編)
1988-08-12	Famicom Wars (FC) (ファミコンウォーズ)
1989-05-23	Famicom Detective Club Part II: The Girl Who Stands Behind - Prequel (FDS) (ファミコン探偵倶楽部PARTII うしろに立つ少女前・後編)
1989-06-30	Famicom Detective Club Part II: The Girl Who Stands Behind - Sequel (FDS) (ファミコン探偵倶楽部PARTII うしろに立つ少女前・前編)
1990-08-??	Punch-Out!! (NES)
1990-10-23	Radar Mission (GB) (海戦ゲームレーダーミッション)
1994-03-19	Super Metroid (SNES) (スーパーメトロイド)
1995-07-21	Galactic Pinball (VB) (ギャラクティックピンボール)
1998-04-01	Famicom Detective Club Part II (SFC)
1999-07-01	Forest's Beginning (SFC) (はじまりの森)
2001-07-21	Mario Kart: Super Circuit (GBA) (マリオカートアドバンス)	Sound Support
2002-07-05	Momoko Sakura's Exhilarating Carnival (GBA) (さくらももこのウキウキカーニバル)	Sound Support
2002-11-17	Metroid Prime (GC) (メトロイドプライム)
2003-??-??	Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA) (メトロイドゼロミッション)
2004-11-15	Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GC) (メトロイドプライム2 ダークエコーズ)
2005-06-23	Advance Wars: Dual Strike (NDS) (ファミコンウォーズDS)
2005-12-29	Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day (NDS)
2006-11-19	Excite Truck (WII)
2007-08-27	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (WII)
2008-01-31	Super Smash Bros. Brawl (WII)
2008-12-24	Brain Age Express: Math (NDS)
2010-11-21	Donkey Kong Country Returns (WII)