Hirokazu Tanaka

Hirokazu Tanaka (田中 宏和) is a video game music Composers who composed the soundtracks of many early games for Nintendo under the name Hip Tanaka, but has been largely inactive in game music since the mid-1990s. He is currently the president of Creatures Inc., which makes the Pokémon trading card game. He has also composed much of the in-show soundtrack for the Pokémon Anime series.

Anime Music

 * Pokémon (1998): Only some of the in-show music. Not the main theme songs.

Video Game Music

 * Balloon Fight (1984)
 * Balloon Kid (1990)
 * Duck Hunt (1984, along with Koji Kondo)
 * Dr. Mario (1990): "Fever" was the basis of a priceless parody song.
 * Samples: Chill, Fever.
 * Earthbound (1994, along with Keiichi Suzuki)
 * Famicom Wars (1988)
 * Fire Emblem Akaneia (1990)
 * Game Boy Camera (1998)
 * Gyromite (1985)
 * Hogans Alley (1984)
 * Kid Icarus (1986)
 * Samples: Sky Palace, Underworld.
 * Mario Paint (1992, along with Kazumi Totaka and Ryoji Yoshitomi)
 * Metroid (1986): This game wouldn't have been nearly as Nightmare Fuelish as it had been without the haunting (at times dissonant) soundtrack.
 * Samples: Brinstar, End Credits, Escape, Norfair, Title.
 * MOTHER (1989, along with Ritsuo Kamimura, Akio Ohmori and Keiichi Suzuki)
 * Stack Up (1985)
 * Super Mario Land (1989)
 * Samples: Birabuto, Chai.
 * Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008, along with many others)
 * Tetris (1989): Arrangements of Russian folk songs. Yes, it's all his fault.
 * Samples: A-Type, B-Type.
 * Urban Champion (1984)
 * Wild Gunman (1984)
 * Wrecking Crew (1985)
 * Samples: Theme.

Other Music

 * "Tanaka Hirokazu no Uta" (2009)! And again with English subtitles.