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Kenji Yamamoto (?? ?? Yamamoto Kenji) is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese video game musician working for Nintendo
Nintendo

is a global company located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
. He was born on April 25, 1964. It was recently explained that he plays a role as a music director at Nintendo, overseeing the audio for several Nintendo games. He is credited with creating the soundtracks of the following games:



Kenji Yamamoto contributed with other video game composers for Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

, is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series of gaming crossover fighting games, developed by Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console....
.

In a recent interview with Music4Games
Music4Games

Music4Games was launched in 1999 as a resource for video game music information. Music4Games.Net focuses on the video game soundtrack industry and claims to target dedicated gamers, game music fans, audiophiles, students, composers, developers, publishers, producers, audio directors and music executives as a consumer and industry website....
, Yamamoto detailed his experience working on the Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime

title = Metroid Prime| image = | caption = North American box art| developer = Retro Studios| publisher = Nintendo| composer = Kenji Yamamoto , Kouichi Kyuma...
 trilogy.






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Kenji Yamamoto (?? ?? Yamamoto Kenji) is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese video game musician working for Nintendo
Nintendo

is a global company located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
. He was born on April 25, 1964. It was recently explained that he plays a role as a music director at Nintendo, overseeing the audio for several Nintendo games. He is credited with creating the soundtracks of the following games:

  • Advance Wars: Dual Strike
    Advance Wars: Dual Strike

    Advance Wars: Dual Strike, known in Japan as , is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console....
     (with Yoshito Hirano)
  • Excite Truck
    Excite Truck

    Excite Truck is a video game published by Nintendo and developed by Monster Games for the Wii video game system. It features malleable environments and tilt-based controls....
     (with Masaru Tajima)
  • Famicom Tantei Club: Kieta Kokeisha
    Famicom Tantei Club: Kieta Kokeisha

    is a text-based adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System on April 27, 1988 and June 14, 1988. The game was ported to the Game Boy Advance in the Famicom Mini series as a single cartridge in 2004, and became available on the Virtual Console in 2007 for 600 Wii points....
  • Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shojo
  • Galactic Pinball
    Galactic Pinball

    Galactic Pinball was a video game for the Nintendo Virtual Boy. It was a basic pinball game featuring several different boards....
  • Famicom Bunko: Hajimari no Mori
    Famicom Bunko: Hajimari no Mori

    is a text-based adventure game developed by Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo. It was released only on the Nintendo Power cartridge rewriting service, which ended on February 28, 2007....
  • Mario Kart: Super Circuit (sound support)
  • Metroid Fusion
    Metroid Fusion

    Metroid Fusion is an Action-adventure game video game published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It was released in North America and Europe in November 2002, and in Japan in February 2003....
     (as sound designer)
  • Metroid Prime
    Metroid Prime

    title = Metroid Prime| image = | caption = North American box art| developer = Retro Studios| publisher = Nintendo| composer = Kenji Yamamoto , Kouichi Kyuma...
  • Metroid Prime Hunters
    Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters is a first-person shooter and adventure game for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was developed by American video game developers Nintendo Software Technology and Retro Studios, and was released by Nintendo in North America in March 2006, in Europe and Australia in May 2006, and in Japan in June 2006....
     (as sound supervisor)
  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is a First person , Action-adventure game video game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube video game console....
  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a First person action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console....
     (with Minako Hamano
    Minako Hamano

    Minako Hamano is a Japanese composer of video game music working for Nintendo. She is credited with the musical scores for the following games:...
     and Masaru Tajima)
  • Metroid: Zero Mission
    Metroid: Zero Mission

    is an action-adventure game video game developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console. It was published by Nintendo in North America in February 2004, in Europe in April 2004, and in Japan in May 2004....
     (with Minako Hamano)
  • Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
  • Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival
    Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival

    is a video game developed by Indieszero and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. The game was never released outside of Japan....
     (sound support)
  • Super Metroid
    Super Metroid

    Super Metroid, also known as Metroid 3, is an Action game-Platform game video game and the third game in the Metroid . It was developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console....
     (with Minako Hamano)


Kenji Yamamoto contributed with other video game composers for Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

, is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series of gaming crossover fighting games, developed by Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console....
.

In a recent interview with Music4Games
Music4Games

Music4Games was launched in 1999 as a resource for video game music information. Music4Games.Net focuses on the video game soundtrack industry and claims to target dedicated gamers, game music fans, audiophiles, students, composers, developers, publishers, producers, audio directors and music executives as a consumer and industry website....
, Yamamoto detailed his experience working on the Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime

title = Metroid Prime| image = | caption = North American box art| developer = Retro Studios| publisher = Nintendo| composer = Kenji Yamamoto , Kouichi Kyuma...
 trilogy. He described his thoughts on the inclusion of themes from Super Metroid
Super Metroid

Super Metroid, also known as Metroid 3, is an Action game-Platform game video game and the third game in the Metroid . It was developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console....
 as well as his composition process and sources of inspiration. He intends to continue working on the Metroid series into the future.

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  • with Music4Games
    Music4Games

    Music4Games was launched in 1999 as a resource for video game music information. Music4Games.Net focuses on the video game soundtrack industry and claims to target dedicated gamers, game music fans, audiophiles, students, composers, developers, publishers, producers, audio directors and music executives as a consumer and industry website....
  • 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....