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'''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 [[Totally Radical|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 (Tabletop Gamegame)|Pokémon]]'' trading card game. He has also composed much of the in-show soundtrack for the ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' [[Anime]] series.
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=== Anime Music ===
* ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' (1998): Only some of the in-show music. Not the main theme songs.
 
=== Video Game Music ===
* ''[[Video Game/Balloon Fight|Balloon Fight]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Balloon Kid]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Duck Hunt]]'' (1984, along with [[Koji Kondo]])
* ''[[Dr. Mario (Video Game)|Dr. Mario]]'' (1990): "Fever" was the basis of a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc-EP-0xEDQ priceless parody song].
** Samples: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsBtQCDbTWc Chill], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CB1fFeb1n8 Fever].
* ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'' (1994, along with [[Keiichi Suzuki]])
* ''[[Famicom Wars]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Fire Emblem Akaneia]]'' (1990)
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** Samples: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjYvGiMiEbk Sky Palace], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUBsXUt5RQE Underworld].
* ''[[Mario Paint]]'' (1992, along with Kazumi Totaka and Ryoji Yoshitomi)
* ''[[Metroid]]'' (1986): This game wouldn't have been nearly as [[Nightmare Fuel|Nightmare Fuelish]]ish as it had been without the haunting (at times dissonant) soundtrack.
** Samples: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-2sE0Napg0 Brinstar], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQeUkUp4uRc End Credits], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfdoJNBkgg4 Escape], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBKWYGXnIU4 Norfair], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyw8GFkZhxQ Title].
* ''[[MOTHER]]'' (1989, along with [[Ritsuo Kamimura]], [[Akio Ohmori]] and [[Keiichi Suzuki]])
* ''[[Stack Up]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Super Mario Land (Video Game)|Super Mario Land]]'' (1989)
** Samples: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_-HvB3zbC4 Birabuto], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUGPr9zlXPo Chai].
* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' (2008, along with many others)
* ''[[Tetris (Video Game)|Tetris]]'' (1989): Arrangements of Russian folk songs. [[Ear Worm|Yes, it's all his fault.]]
** Samples: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgtKSnmM5oE A-Type], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5WtWa8lL7Y B-Type].
* ''[[Urban Champion]]'' (1984)
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** Samples: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKdIP5H630o Theme].
 
=== Other Music ===
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gISEoMIe3c Tanaka Hirokazu no Uta]" (2009)! And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6ymVuxSYQ again with English subtitles].
 
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