Hironari Tadokoro

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Hironari Tadokoro
Hironari.jpg
Local 田所 広成 (たどころ ひろなり)
Gender Male
Born 1950?
Birth Place Unknown
Nationality Japanese   Japan.svg
Died December 8, 2018
Aliases H. Tadokoro, Punk Tadokoro, Ponii Ichinen, M. Boochan, Piropiro, Mick J. Piro, Tarorisu, Kieth Jagger, Kasai Minami (葛西みなみ)

Hironari Tadokoro' was a Japanese sound designer, programmer and composer. He worked on a few games developed by Marionette, the first of which being Mezase Pachi Pro: Pachiokun. While he was usually only an audio programmer on these games he did compose for a few of them, most notably Phantom Fighter, and was a part of the group of composers who worked on Dr. Chaos (Ponii Ichinen). After the release of Pachio-kun 5, Tadokoro left the game industry.

He also worked at a game company by the name of IDES, producing and providing scenarios for a number of their games, later doing the same at his own company STONE HEADS and freelance later still. He still found time to contribute musically from time to time with his lyrics and compositions showing up on occasion in these games, and even worked on music for the album Maid San Best 2.

He continued to be active until his unfortunate passing on December 8, 2018.

Music Composition

NES

Hironari programmed his own sound driver in 6502 assembly. Music and sound effects were written in Music Macro Language. While he was working on the Pachiokun games, the composers sent cassette tapes to him and he rewrote the music to his sound driver by hand.

According to Tadokoro, there would be revisions made to the driver between each game it was used in, which is why each game that uses the driver sounds different.

Gameography

Released Title Sample Notes
1987-12-18 Mezase Pachi Pro: Pachio-kun (FC) (目指せパチプロ パチ夫くん) Music Data Man
1988-09-16 Phantom Fighter (NES) (霊幻道士)
1988-11-?? Dr. Chaos (NES) (ドクター・カオス 地獄の扉)
With other unknown composers.
1988-11-12 Pachinko Grand Prix (FDS) (パチンコGP)
1989-01-30 Pachio-kun 2 (FC) (パチ夫くん2) Music Data Man
1989-12-08 Pachinko Time (GB) (パチンコ タイム) Music Dataman
1989-12-19 I Love Softball (FC) (アイラブソフトボール) Music Dataman
1989-??-?? Pachipro Densetsu (MSX) (パチプロ伝説) Music Data Man
1990-06-15 Card Game (GB) (カード・ゲーム) Music Dataman
1990-10-26 Pachio-kun 3 (FC) (パチ夫くん3) Sound Driver
1991-06-28 Pool of Radiance (NES) (プール・オブ・レイディアンス)
Music Programmer
1991-07-19 Pachinko Daisakusen (FC) (パチンコ大作戦1) Music Dataman
1991-11-22 Pachio-kun 4 (FC) (パチ夫くん4) Sound Driver
1992-07-19 Pachinko Daisakusen 2 (FC) (パチンコ大作戦2) Sound Driver
1993-06-18 Pachio-kun 5 (FC) (パチ夫くん5) Sound Driver

Aliases

As per usual with game developers back in the early days of game development, Hironari used several aliases throughout his career.

In Pachipro Densetsu (MSX), he goes by Keith Jagger and in Pachinko Daisakusen (FC) he is credited as Mick J. Piro. Mick, Keith, and Jagger refers to the Rolling Stones band members Keith Richards and Mick Jagger.

Hironari used "Piro" in many of his aliases. "Piro" may not mean anything in particular, and he only used it because it rhymed with the first half of his given name.

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