Jun Chikuma is a music composer. She is best known as the original composer of the famous Nintendo Entertainment System

Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...

 console game soundtracks of Bomberman

Bomberman

Bomberman is a strategic, maze-based computer and video game franchise originally developed by Hudson Soft. The original game was published in 1983 and new games in the series are still being published to this day. Today, the commercially successful Bomberman is featured in over 70 different games...

, Adventure Island

Adventure Island

Adventure Island may refer to:* Adventure Island , or its sequels:** Adventure Island II** Adventure Island III** Adventure Island IV ** New Adventure Island** Super Adventure Island...

 and Faxanadu

Faxanadu

is an action role-playing platform-adventure video game for the Nintendo Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System . The name was licensed by computer game developer Nihon Falcom and was developed and released in Japan by Hudson Soft in 1987...

. Since 1992, she has studied ney

Ney

The ney is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Middle Eastern music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. It is a very ancient instrument, with depictions of ney players appearing in wall paintings in the Egyptian pyramids and actual neys being found...

 composition and Tunisian music under professors Slah Manaa, Ali Sriti and Zakia Hannashi at l'Institut Superieur de la Musique, and studied req under Haytham Farghaly of the same institute. She curates Arab-music.com with Yoshiko Matsuda, and has also made music for TV, CM, and movies.

MUSIC

Bomberman

• FC Bomberman
  Bomberman
  Bomberman is a strategic, maze-based computer and video game franchise originally developed by Hudson Soft. The original game was published in 1983 and new games in the series are still being published to this day. Today, the commercially successful Bomberman is featured in over 70 different games...
  
   ('85 HUDSON
  Hudson
  - United States :* Hudson, Colorado, town in Weld County* Hudson, Florida, census-designated place in Pasco County* Hudson, Illinois, town in McLean County* Hudson, Indiana, town in Steuben County* Hudson, Iowa, town in Black Hawk County...
  
  )
• FC Bomberman 2 ('91 HUDSON)
• PC-Engine Bomberman ('90 HUDSON)
• PC-Engine Bomberman 93 ('92 HUDSON)
• PC-Engine Bomberman 94 ('93 HUDSON)
• SFC Super Bomberman ('93 HUDSON)
• SFC Super Bomberman 3 ('95 HUDSON) (with Keita Hoshi)
• SFC Super Bomberman 4 ('96 HUDSON)
• SFC Super Bomberman 5 ('97 HUDSON)
• SEGA SATURN
  Sega Saturn
  The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console that was first released by Sega on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995 in North America, and July 8, 1995 in Europe...
  
   Saturn Bomberman ('96 HUDSON)
• GB Bomber Boy (HUDSON)
• GB Bomber Boy II (HUDSON)
• MAME Bomberman ('97 BANDAI)
• SEGA SATURN Saturn Bomberman Fight ('97 HUDSON)

(Yoshio Tsuru; 3 tunes by June Chikuma)

• GB Pocket Bomberman ('97 HUDSON)

(Shinya Yano; 6 by June Chikuma)

• PlayStation
  PlayStation
  The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
  
   Bomberman World ('98 HUDSON)

(Hironao Yamamoto; 9 by Chikuma)

• Bomberman Melody Mugcup ('98 Hudson Not For Sale)
• Nintendo 64
  Nintendo 64
  The , often referred to as N64, was Nintendo′s third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit CPU, it was released in June 1996 in Japan, September 1996 in North America, March 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1997 in France and December 1997 in Brazil...
  
   Bomberman Hero ('98 HUDSON )
• Bomberman (PS)('98 HUDSON) (also by Famishin)
• GB Bomberman Quest('98 HUDSON) (battle music by Chikuma)

Other Games

• FC Bokenjima ('86 HUDSON)
• FC Doraemon
  Doraemon (1986 video game)
  is a 1986 video game software developed and published by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Family Computer exclusively in Japan. It is based on Fujiko F. Fujio's Japanese manga series of the same name, which later became an anime series and Asian franchise...
  
   ('87 HUDSON)
• FC Faxanadu
  Faxanadu
  is an action role-playing platform-adventure video game for the Nintendo Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System . The name was licensed by computer game developer Nihon Falcom and was developed and released in Japan by Hudson Soft in 1987...
  
   ('87 HUDSON)
• PC-Engine Necromancer ('88 HUDSON)
• PC-Engine Makyo Densetsu ('88 VICTOR)
• PC-Engine Nectaris
  Nectaris
  Nectaris, occasionally released as Military Madness, is a series of sci-fi-themed, hex map turn-based strategy games for a variety of systems...
  
   ('89 HUDSON)
• PC-Engine Doraemon ('89 HUDSON)
• PC-Engine CD ROM‚ Q Monster Lair ('89 HUDSON)

(composed by Shinichi Sakamoto, arranged by June Chikuma)

• SFC Doremi Fantasy ('95 HUDSON)
• SEGA STURN Galaxy Fraulein "YUNA" Mika Akitaka Illust Works ('96 HUDSON)
• WIN Nectaris ('97 HUDSON / LOG IN '97 no.16&17)
• PlayStation
  PlayStation
  The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
  
   Nectaris('98 HUDSON)
• Game Boy
  Game Boy
  The , is an 8-bit handheld video game device developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on , in North America in , and in Europe on...
  
   Nectaris ('98 HUDSON)

Records

• LP DIVERTIMENTO

PICTURE LABEL / Music Design Records PL8601C

• CD Music Design CD Vol.1

Music Design Records 1994 MD001

• CD UGETSUFU / Kuniyoshi SUGAWARA(Shakuhachi)

KYOTO RECORDS 1995 KYCH2007

• CD Iravati / Megumi Hayashibara

KINGRECORDS 1997 KICS 640

• CD FNATRANCE / Y-H (Yoshimi Hishida)

Sony Records, Tajine Label 1997 SRCL4023

• CD Futsuu no Uta / MAI YAMANE WITH NEW ARCHAIC SMILE

Tribarythmo /A.P.G. Ginga no Koe 1997 APG1001

• CD VIRUS Original Soundtrack / Toshiyuki Omori

Polygram 1997 POCX-1083

• CD Missing / Saju

Triad / Colombia Japan 1998

• CD TEN PLANTS / Various Artists

AQUA LABEL/Biosphere / Pioneer LDC 1998 BICA5001

• CD Bomberman Hero Original Soundtrack / June Chikuma

NTT Pub. / POLYSTAR 1998 PSCN-5066

• CD Super Bomberman 3 Original Soundtrack / June Chikuma

NTT pub. / POLYSTAR 1995 PSCN-5025

• CD Music from Bomberman / June Chikuma

FUN HOUSE 1990 FHCF-1104

• CD B-Daman Songs 1 Shiro-bon

Colombia Japan 1998 COCC-14986

• CD B-Daman Songs 3 Kiiro-bon

Colombia Japan 1998 COCC-14988

• CD B-Daman Songs 4 Aka-bon

Colombia Japan 1998 COCC-14989

• CD B-Daman Songs 5 Kuro-bon

Colombia Japan 1998 COCC-14990

• VIDEO B-Daman Bakugaiden1@@Music : Kenyu Nukita + June Chikuma

Colombia Japan 1998 COVC-6181

• VIDEO B-Daman Bakugaiden2@@Music : Kenyu Nukita + June Chikuma

Colombia Japan 1998 COVC-6182

• VIDEO B-Daman Bakugaiden3@@Music : Kenyu Nukita + June Chikuma

Colombia Japan 1998 COVC-6183

• Game Soft Sega Saturn Tengai Makyo - The Apocalypse IV

Hudson T-14301G

• VIDEO PATAPHYSIQUE

PICTURE VIDEO / Music Design Records 1986 PV8641C

• VIDEO ETAPHI

PICTURE VIDEO / Music Design Records 1987 PV8703

External links

• Chiki's BOMBERMAN Music
• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
  OverClocked ReMix
  OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs with new technology and software, as well as by various traditional means...