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| Koji Kondo |
| Kondo was born in Nagoya, Japan. He took to music at an early age, writing simple tunes for fun even as a small child. At seventeen, he decided to pursue music professionally. He undertook classical training, and he learned to play several instruments.
In the 1980s, Kondo learned that a company called Nintendo was seeking musicians to compose music for its new video game system, the Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System). Kondo had never considered writing video game music before, but he decided to give the company a chance. He was hired in 1983. Kondo found himself in a totally different environment at Nintendo. Suddenly, he was limited to only four "instruments" (two monophonic pulse channels, a monophonic triangle wave channel which could be used as a bass, and a noise channel used for percussion) due to the system's primitive sound chip. Though he and Nintendo's technicians eventually discovered a way to add a fifth channel, his music was still severely limited on the system. Kondo has stayed with Nintendo through various consoles, including the Super Nintendo, the Nintendo 64, the Nintendo Gamecube and most recently the Nintendo DS. These latter systems have vastly improved Nintendo's audio capabilities, and Kondo today composes music with CD quality sound. (from www.wikipedia.org) |
| Video Game Soundtracks - Devil World (with Akito Nakatsuka) (1984) Super Mario Bros. (1985) Nazo no Murasame-jou ("The Mysterious Castle of Murasame") (1986) The Legend of Zelda (1986, 1987) Shin Onigashima (1987) Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988) Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988, 1990) Pilotwings (with Soyo Oka) (1990) Super Mario World (1991) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992) Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995) Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (with Yoko Shimomura and Nobuo Uematsu) (1996) Super Mario 64 (1996) Star Fox 64 (with Hajime Wakai) (1997) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998) Super Smash Bros. (with several others) (1999) The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (with Toru Minegishi) (2000) Super Smash Bros. Melee (with several others) (2001) Super Mario Sunshine (with Shinobu Tanaka) (2002) The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (with Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, and Toru Minegishi) (2003) New Super Mario Bros. (2005) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006) |
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