the NES Music Authors List

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the NES Music Authors List
by on (#54684)
http://nesdev.com/authors.htm

Is there any interest in updating this? I found this and noticed that the last update was over 7 years ago. I would have a bunch to add.

by on (#54703)
Looks like a job for wiki magic. I'm at work right now so I can't make a quick Python program to convert it to wiki syntax.

by on (#54708)
Very cool. :)
I'll start listing stuff here anyways. Ones that are already up are bolded, and may be incomplete or have incorrect information. I haven't done anything fancy like double check everything that's on there, I've just gathered some new ones from game credits (and a couple artists' sites). I will double check, however, everything I've tagged an NSFE for.

I take it real names are preferred over in-credit nicknames when they are known? (Like Shinichi Seya vs. About S.S.). I didn't get to research / convert all nicknames yet, so feel free to change anything like Yuukichan's Papa...


| Title | Composer | Year + Publisher | Extra Info |

| Batman Return of the Joker | Naoki Kodaka, Hara Nobuyuki, Shinichi Seya | 1991 SunSoft | |
| Beauty and the Beast | Jeroen Tel | 1993 Hudson Soft | |
| Booby Kids | Kenji Yoshida | 1987 Nihon Bussan Co., Ltd. | |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | Jeroen Tel | 1993 Sony Imagesoft | |
| Bubble Bobble | Tadashi Kimijima | 1988 Taito | |*
| Caesar's Palace | David Warhol | 1990 Virgin Games | |
| Captain Skyhawk | David Wise | 1989 Rare | |
| Dropzone | Neil Baldwin | 1992 Mindscape | |
| Esper Dream 2 | Matsuo "The Snacker" | 1992 Konami | VRC6 |
| Erik the Viking | Neil Baldwin | 1992 Video Systems | Unreleased |
| Falsion | Sakamoto, Takenouchi, Fujio | 1987 Konami | Uses FDS audio for music |
| Fire 'n Ice | Kajiya Shitamachi | 1993 Tecmo | aka Solomon's Key 2 |
| Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge | Neil Baldwin | 1992 System 3 | |**
| Friday the 13th | Hirohiko Takayama | 1988 LJN | |
| Ghoul School | Scott Marshall | 1991 Imagineering | |
| Hero Quest | Neil Baldwin | 1991 Gremlin Graphics | Unreleased |
| Incredible Crash Test Dummies | Tim and Geoff Follin | 1993 LJN | |
| James Bond Jr | Neil Baldwin | 1991 THQ | |
| Karate Kid, The | Hirohiko Takayama | 1987 LJN | |
| Kick Master | Takaha, Shiochan | 1991 Taito | |
| King Kong 2 | Rusher Shinya, Brilliant Satoe, Yamako, Kyohei Sada | 1986 Konami | |***
| Legendary Wings | Yuukichan's Papa, Tmayochan, C. Manami | 1988 Capcom | |
| Lethal Weapon 3 | Neil Baldwin | 1992 Ocean | |
| Little Samson | Kazuhide Sasuga, Yukimari | 1992 Taito | |
| Magician | Neil Baldwin | 1990 Taxan | |
| Mighty Final Fight | Setsuo Yamamoto, Yuko Takehara | 1993 Capcom | |
| Mission Impossible | Dog-Man, Hagiiiin | 1990 Konami | |
| Mitsume ga Tooru | Hiroyuki Iwatsuki | 1992 Tomy | |
| Moai Kun | H. Ueko | 1990 Konami | |
| Moero Twinbee (Stinger US) | Rusher Shinya, Kyohei Sada | 1986 Konami | |****
| Over Horizon | Masaharu "Rezon" Iwata | 1991 Hot-B | |
| Overlord | Jeroen Tel | 1992 Virgin Games, Probe | |
| Palamedes 2 - Star Twinkles | Kyohei Sada | 1991 Hot-B | |
| Panic Restaurant | Hirohiko Takayama | 1992 Taito | |
| Pin-Bot | David Wise, Paul Proctor, Carole Stamper | 1988 Rare | |
| Puss 'n Boots | Tomohisa Mitsuyasu | 1990 Toei Animation | |*****
| Robocop 3 | Jeroen Tel | 1992 Ocean | |
| Rod Land | Tsukasa Tawada, Simon Pick | 1992 Jaleco | |
| Shatterhand | Iku Mizutani, Kouichi Yamanishi | 1991 Angel, Natsume | |
| Super Spy Hunter | Naoki Kodaka, Nobuyuki Hara, Shinichi Seya | 1991 Sunsoft | aka Battle Formula }
| Sword Master | Shotaro, I. Koichi | 1990 Athena Co. | |
| Taboo: The Sixth Sense | David Wise | 1988 Rare | |
| Toxic Crusaders | A. Shinji | 1991 Bandai | |
| Werewolf the Last Warrior | S. Sakai, T. Miura, Y. Takahama | 1991 Takara | |******
| Willow | Harumi | 1989 Capcom | |
| Zombie Nation | Norio Nakagata | 1990 Meldac, Liveplanning | aka Abarenbou Tengu |

*More complete composer name provided.
**Incorrectly labeled as David Whittaker, and although less important, also has the wrong year.
***Previously credits only Kinuyo Yamashita. Is she one of these people? This is the credit information as it appears in-game, with "Charley-Sada" changed to Kyohei Sada.
****This one is very odd, and the first time I've seen something like this-
The soundtrack is identical across ports, but "Charley Sada" is credited in Stinger. So I thought that Rusher Shinya was a mistake at first, but he is in the Moero Twinbee credits instead! Unless they are the same person, but I'm pretty sure they are not because they have been credited together...?
*****Hmm. I have a different name. I got it straight from the credits if I recall correctly.
******This is already on the list (ctrl f warwolf), although I added the first initials for the composers for good measure.

I have should have some more later on, I'll put those in a new post though.

by on (#54717)
bucky o'hare wrote:
The soundtrack is identical across ports, but "Charley Sada" is credited in Stinger. So I thought that Rusher Shinya was a mistake at first, but he is in the Moero Twinbee credits instead! Unless they are the same person, but I'm pretty sure they are not because they have been credited together...?

Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (8th Mix) features contributions by DE-SIRE, RevenG, 180, Omega, Naoki, and ZZ. All are nicknames of Naoki MAEDA, and he wrote most of the music you hear in Overplayed. Likewise, Kyle Ward of In the Groove goes by Inspector K, KaW, :-), and others.

But more likely, one of them wrote the music for Stinger and another ported it to another platform.

by on (#54718)
I was thinking it might be something like that, but if I have it right the game was never released on any other system - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinger_(video_game)

Composer confusion makes sense if someone ports tunes to a new system and composer / sound programmer isn't clearly credited (like Arcade -> NES, etc), but I'm not sure why that would ever happen from Famicom -> NES when there aren't any changes to the music.

by on (#54723)
bucky o'hare wrote:
I'm not sure why that would ever happen from Famicom -> NES when there aren't any changes to the music.

Different unions have different rules on who gets credited. The music might have been recompressed to make room for longer English text.

In some cases, the music might have changed but some people might not notice it. Some Famicom mappers can make music, but NES mappers can't because Nintendo never sold the jumper pack for the expansion port. This means the "ZELDA" games ported from FDS (The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. 2) would get an extra sound credit for whoever converted sound effects from FDS to DPCM. It also might depend on what music gets replaced due to copyright disputes; "hidden" tracks might disappear.

by on (#54740)
Ah, thanks for the insight! That has me curious who actually did what. :)

by on (#79477)
[quote="bucky o'hare"]Very cool. :)
I'll start listing stuff here anyways. Ones that are already up are bolded, and may be incomplete or have incorrect information. I haven't done anything fancy like double check everything that's on there, I've just gathered some new ones from game credits (and a couple artists' sites). I will double check, however, everything I've tagged an NSFE for.

I take it real names are preferred over in-credit nicknames when they are known? (Like Shinichi Seya vs. About S.S.). I didn't get to research / convert all nicknames yet, so feel free to change anything like Yuukichan's Papa...

| Kick Master | Takaha, Shiochan | 1991 Taito | |



Hey everyone, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi is Yuukichan's Papa

Also I'm not sure about kick master I saw consistency in my research for Takahama, Nobuyuki Shioda

I'd like to confirm this if possible

by on (#82311)
Here's my list of NES composers:

GAME - COMPOSER
3D World Runner - Nobuo Uematsu
8 Eyes - Kenzou Kumei
A Boy & His Blob: Trouble on Blobonia - Mark Van Hecke
A Nightmare on Elm Street - Dave Wise
Abadox - Kyouhei Sada
Action 52 - Ed Bogas
Action in New York - Kyouhei Sada
Addams Family - Jonathan Dunn
Addams Family: Fester's Quest - Nobuyuki Hara, Naoki Kodaka
Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt - Barry Leitch
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: DragonStrike - Frank Klepacki, Paul Mudra
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar - Unknown
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance - Seiji Toda
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance - Seiji Toda
Adventure Island - Jun Chiki Chikuma
Adventures of Bayou Billy - Damian Shinkon Ogura, Hidenori Maezawa, Kyouhei Sada
Adventures of Captain Comic - Judye Pistole
Adventures of Lolo - Zap Ajisai (Manami Matsumae?)
Adventures of Lolo 2 - Zap Ajisai
Adventures of Lolo 3 - Zap Ajisai
Adventures of Rad Gravity - Dave Warhol
Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends - Paul Wilkinson
Air Fortress - Escaper Kanagushi
Airwolf - Neil Brennan
Al Unser Jr.'s Turbo Racing - Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Masaaki Iwasaki, Yuji Suzuki
Aladdin (E) - Mark Cooksey
Alfred Chicken (e) - David Whittaker
Alien 3 - Jeroen Tel
Anticipation - Dave Wise
Arch Rivals - Dave Wise
Asterix - Alberto Gonzalez
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - Mark Van Hecke
Aussie Rules Footy (AU) - Marshall Parker
Baby Boomer (Unl) - John Borchert
Back to the Future - Gavan Anderson
Back to the Future Part II & III - Marshall Parker, Tania Smith
Bad Dudes - S. Saki, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Y. Takahama, I. Uchida, Y. Nakamura
Bad News Baseball - More Yamasan, Mayu, Miya
Bad Street Brawler - Gavan Anderson, Tania Smith
Balloon Fight - Hirokazu Tanaka
Barbie - Mark Van Hecke
Basewars - Magnum Matsuo, Pah Sumiyami
Batman - Nobuyuki Kun, Kodaka San
Battlechess - Tania Smith
Battleship - Mark Knight
Battletank - Mark Van Hecke
Battletoads - Dave Wise
Battletoads & Double Dragon - Dave Wise
Battle Chess - Tania Smith
Batman - Nobuyuki Kun, Kodaka San
Beauty and the Beast - Jeroen Tel
Beetlejuice - Dave Wise
Bigfoot - Gavan Anderson
Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge - Kris Hatlelid, Michael J. Sokyrka
Bionic Commando - Gondamin
Blaster Master - Naoki Kodaka
Blues Brothers - Blues Brothers
Bo Jackson's Baseball - Marshall Parker
Bomberman - Jun Chiki Chikuma
Bram Stoker's Dracula - Jeroen Tel
Break Time: The National Pool Tour - Takeshi 'Honami' Yasuada
Bubble Bath Babes (Unl) - Ko.S.El
Bubble Bobble - Shotaro, Ogr,Takagi, Composer Kimi
Hisayoshi Ogura, Masahiko Takagi, Tadashi Kimijama
Bubble Bobble 2 - Kenichi Kamio
Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blow Out, The - Kouji Nishikawa, Masaomi Miura
Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle - Kouji Nishikawa, Masaomi Miura
Cabal - Dave Wise
Caesar's Palace - Dave Hayes
California Games - Dave Wise
California Raisins: The Grape Escape - Scott Etherton
Caltron 6-In-1
Main Menu - Martino?
Cosmos Cop - Martino
Magic Carpet 1001 - Ruth
Balloon Monster - Martino
Adam and Eve - Melody?
Porter - Martino
Bookyman - Martino?
Captain Planet & The Planeteers - Peter Stone
Captain Skyhawk - Dave Wise
Castle of Deceit - Judye Pistole
Castlevania - Kinuyo Yamashita
Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest - Hidenori Maezawa
Cheetahmen II - Ed Bogas
Chessmaster - Peter Stone
Chester Field - Montaro Kinchan
City Connection - Akito Nakatsuka
Classic Concentration - Rob Wallace
Cliffhanger - Mark Cooksey
Clu Clu Land - Akito Nakatsuka
Cobra Triangle - Dave Wise
Color A Dinosaur - Tommy Tallarico
Conan - ???
Conflict - Hasuya
Contra - Hidenori Maezawa, Kyouhei Sada
Corvette ZR-1 Challenge - Mark Van Hecke
Danny sullivan's Indy Heat - Dave Wise
Darkman - Jonathan Dunn
Darkwing Duck - Yasuaki Fujita
Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum - Tania Smith
Day Dreamin' Davey - Paul Webb
Days of Thunder - Tania Smith
Deadly Towers - Y.E.K and Y.E.K Production
Deep Dungeon - Armadillo
Deep Dungeon 2 - Armaddilo, Yoshikazu Kawauchi
Defender of the Crown - Neil Brennan
Defenders of Dynation City - George Sanger
Deja Vu - Kouji Nishikawa, Masaomi Miura
Destination: Earth Star - Mark Van Hecke
Destiny of an Emperor 2 - Yasuaki Fujita
Devil World - Akito Nakatsuka, Koji Kondo
Dick Tracy - George Sanger
Die Hard - Junichi Saito, Masaki Iwamoto, Hitoshi Saito
Digger T. Rock - David Wise
Dirty Harry - Steven Samler, Elliott Delman (001760)
Donkey Kong 3 - Hirokazu Tanaka
Double Dare - Dave Wise
Dr. Chaos - Ponii Ichinen
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Hasuya
Dr. Mario - Hirokazu Tanaka
Dragon Warrior - Koichi Sugiyama
Dragon Warrior II - Koichi Sugiyama
Dragon Warrior III - Koichi Sugiyama
Dragon Warrior IV - Koichi Sugiyama
Dragon's Lair - Mark Cooksey
Duck Hunt - Koji Kondo
Duck Tales - Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
Duck Tales 2 - Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
Dudes With Attitude (U) - Bob Landwehr
Earthworm Jim 3 (Pirate) - Alex Yev
Elevator Action - David Whittaker
Eliminator Boat Duel - Paul Webb
Elite (E) - David Whittaker
Exploding Fist (Prototype) - Marshall Parker
Family Feud - Tania Smith
Fighting Hero - Ruth, Melody
Fighting Hero III - Martino
Fisher Price: Firehouse Rescue - Mark Van Hecke
Fisher Price: I Can Remember - Gavan Anderson
Fisher Price: Perfect Fit - Gavan Anderson
Flight of the Intruder - Mark Van Hecke
Flinstones - Y. Yamada, N. Yagashita
Flinstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak - S.Takahagi, M.Ogata (Masafumi)
Frankenstein: The Monster Returns - Linus Cha♥Cha
Friday the 13th - Hirohiko Takayama
Fun House - George Sanger
Gauntlet - Hal Canon
Gilligan's Island - Masaki Hashimoto, Takahiro Wakuta
Godzilla - Masatomo Miyamoto
Golf - Koji Kondo
Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode - Hayusa
Golgo 13: Seriinu
Gradius - Miki Higashino
Greg Norman's Golf - Barry Leitch
Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Nobuyuki Hara, About SS, Kodaka San
Gyromite - Hirokazu Tanaka
Happy Camper - John Dwyer
High Speed - David Wise
Hit Marmot (Unl) - Melody
Hollywood Squares - Dave Wise
Home Alone - George Sanger
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - Mark Van Hecke
Hook - Jonathan Dunn
Hudson Hawk - Jonathan Dunn
Hunt for Red October, The - Tania Smith
Ice Climber - Akito Nakatsuka
Ice Hockey - Koji Kondo
Immortal - Rob Hubbard
Incredible Crash Dummies - Tim Follin
Indiana Jones: Last Crusade - Tim Follin
Indiana Jones: Last Crusade (NMS) - Mark Cooksey
Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom - Hal Canon, Dennis Harper
Infiltrator - Paul Butler
International Cricket (AU) - Marshall Parker, Gavan Anderson
Iron Tank: The Battle of Normandy - Masakazu Yuasa, Toshikazu Tanaka, Kazuhiro Nishida
Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II - David Wise
Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Offroad - David Wise
Jack Nicklaus Golf - Barry Leitch
James Bond Jr. - Neil Baldwin
Jeopardy! - Dave Wise
Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary Edition - Dave Wise
Jeopardy! Junior Edition - Dave Wise
Jetsons: Cogswell Caper - Iku Mizutani, K Umino
Jim Henson's Muppets: Chaos at the Carnival - Dennis Intravia
Jimmy Connor's Tennis - Mark Cooksey
John Elway's Quarterback - Dave Wise
Jordan Vs. Bird: One on One - Dave Wise
Journey to Silius - Nobuyuki, Marumo, About.SS, N. Kodaka, Mabochan
Karate Kid, The - Hirohiko Takayama (NC)
Kick Off 2 - Barry Leitch
Kid Icarus - Hirokazu Tanaka
Kid Kool - Hasuya
Klax - Dave O'Riva, aLeX Rudis
Krusty's Fun House - David Whittaker, Nu Romantic Productions, Bigmouth Studios
Kung Fu - Koji Kondo
Last Action Hero - Marshall Parker
Last Ninja - Marshall Parker
Legend of Zelda - Koji Kondo (Konchan)
Lethal Weapon - Neil Baldwin
Lion King - Kevin Bateson (Credited as Kevin B)
Little Mermaid - Yasuaki Fujita
M.C. Kids - Charles Deenen
Mad Max - Paul Butler
Maniac Mansion - Chris Grigg, Dave Govett/Lawrence/Warhol, George Sanger
Marble Madness - Dave Wise
Mario Bros. - Hirokazu Tanaka
Mario Is Missing - Paul Wilkinson
Mario's Time Machine - John Korsrud, Paul Wilkinson
Mega Man 3 - Yasuaki Fujita
Mega Man 4 - Minae Fujii, Yasuaki Fujita
Menace Beach/Sunday Funday (Unl) - John Dwyer
Metroid - Hirokazu Tanaka (Hip Tanaka)
Mickey's Adventure in Numberland - Marshall Parker
Mickey's Safari in Letterland - Marshall Parker
Micro Machines - Matt Grey
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out - Kenji Yamamoto
Milon's Secret Castle - Akito Nakatsuka
Mission: Impossible - Dog-Man, Hagiiiin
Monopoly - Paul Webb
Monster Party - Mikumonky, Masaki 'Hashimotoravolta' Hashimoto
Monster Truck Rally - George Sanger
MTV Remote Control - Nick Scarim
NARC - Dave Wise
New Ghostbusters 2 - Jun Ishikawa
Nightshade - Marshall Parker
Ninja Gaiden - More Yamasan, B. B Hasake
Operation: Secret Storm (Unl) - Sandy Sims
Overlord - Jeroen Tel
Pac-Mania - Paul Mudra
PaperBoy - ???
PaperBoy 2 - ???
Pesterminator (Unl) - Dan Burke
Pictionary - Tim Follin
Pin Bot - Dave Wise
Pipe Dream - John Dale, Kris Hatlelid, Michael J. Sokyrka
Pirates! - Dave Wise
Platoon - New (David Whittaker?)
Power Punch II - Marshall Parker
Prince of Persia - Mark Cooksey
Punisher, The - Tania Smith, Gavan Anderson
R.B.I. Baseball - Norio Nakagata
R.B.I. Baseball 2 - Brad Fuller
R.C. Pro-Am - Dave Wise
R.C. Pro-Am 2 - Dave Wise
Race America - Mark Van Hecke
Raid 2020 (Unl) - Dan Burke, Frank Waung
Rampage - Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura
Rampart - T. Furukawa
Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckeroo$ - Mark Van Hecke
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - Paul webb
Robocop - Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Masaaki Iwasaki, Yuki Suzuki
Robocop 2 - Jonathan Dunn
Robocop 3 - Jeroen Tel
Robodemons (Unl) - Dan Burke
Rocket Ranger - Tania Smith
Rocketeer, The - Dave Hayes, George Sanger
Road Runner - Gavan Anderson
Roadblasters - Brad Fuller, Tania Smith, Gavan Anderson
Rolling Thunder - Junko Ozawa
Rush 'N' Attack - Shinya Sakamoto, Iku Iku Mizatani, Hevimeta Satoe, Masanori Adachi
Rygar - Michiharu Hasutani
S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team - Kyouhei Sada
Sesame Street 123 - David Wise
Sesame Street ABC - David Wise
Sesame Street ABC & 123 - David Wise
Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide and Speak - Nick Scarim
Sesame Street: Countdown - Russell Ginns, Michael Artin
Shadowgate - Kouji Nishikawa, Masaomi Miura
Silent Service - David Wise
Silver Surfer - Tim Follin
Simpsons, The: Bart Vs. The Space Mutants - Mark Van Hecke
Simpsons, The: Bart Vs. The World - Mark Van Hecke
Simpsons, The: Bart Meets Radioactive Man - Mark Van Hecke
Simpsons, The: Krusty's Fun House - Nu Romantic Productions, Bigmouth Studios, David Whittaker
Skate or Die - Rob Hubbard
Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble - Rob Hubbard
Ski or Die - Kyle Granger
Skull 'N' Crossbones - Brad Fuller, Don Dieknite
Sky Kid - Junko Ozawa
Sky Shark - Tim Follin
Slalom - Dave Wise
Smash TV - Marshall Parker
Smurfs, The - Alberto Jose Gonzalez
Snake Rattle 'N' Roll - Dave Wise
Soccer - Koji Kondo
Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warship - Dave Wise
Solstice - Tim Follin
Space Shuttle Project - Scott Marshall
Spelunker - Akito Nakatsuka
Spiderman - David Whittaker
Spy Hunter - Henry Mancini, Naoki Kodaka, Nubuyuki Hara
Spy Vs. Spy - Nicholas Scarim
Stack-Up - Hirokazu Tanaka
Star Soldier - Akito Nakatsuka
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Mark Van Hecke
Star Tropics - Y. Hirai
Star Wars - Marshall Parker
Star Wars (JP) - Hiroyuki Kawada
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - Paul Webb
Starship Hector - Akito Nakatsuka
Stinger - Kyouhei Sada
Stunt Kids - Gavin Raeburn
Sunman (Prototype) - Hirohiko Takayama
Super Cars 2 - Barry Leitch
Super Glove Ball - David Wise
Super Jeopardy! - Mike Pierone
Super Mario Bros. - Koji Kondo
Super Mario Bros. 2 - Koji Kondo
Super Mario Bros. 3 - Koji Kondo
Super Off-Road - Dave Wise
Super Spy Hunter - N-Kodaka, Nobuyuki, Seya
Superman - Ryu Hasegawa
Swamp Thing - Mark Van Hecke
Swords & Serpents - George Sanger
T&C Surf Designs - Hirohiko Takayama
T&C Surf Designs 2 - Thrilla's Surfari - Paul webb
Technocop - Jeroen Tel
Taboo: The Sixth Sense - David Wise
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Miki Higashino, Mutsuhiko Izumi
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game: Kinuyo Yamashita, Y.Manno, K.Nakamura
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project - Yuichi Sakakura, Tomoya Tomita, Kozou Nakamura
Terminator - Paul Wilkinson
Terminator 2 - Geoff Follin, Tim Follin
Tetris - Hirokazu Tanaka
Tetris: The Soviet Mind Game - Brad Fuller
Tetris 2 - Koichi Sugiyama
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (Prototype) - Geoff Follin
Three Stooges, The - Gavan Anderson
Thunderbirds - Junichi Saito, Masaki Iwamoto, Hitoshi Saito
Time Lord - David Wise
Tiny Toon Adventures - Jun Funahashi, Masae Nakashima, Satoko Minami
Tom and Jerry - Tim Follin
Toobin' - Brad Fuller
Top Gun - Kyouhei Sada
Top Gun 2 - H.Maezawa, Y.Sakakura, H.Ueko
Total Recall - George Sanger
Totally Rad - Soarer, Kazuo Sawa, Toshiko Tazaki
Toy Story (Pirate) - U. L. Wang
Treasure Master - Tim Follin
Ultima: Exodus - Tsugutoshi Goto
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar - Seiji Toda
Ultima: Warriors of Destiny - Martin Galway
Ultimate Air Combat - Richard Boogar, Matt Berardo
Ultimate Mortal Combat 4 (Pirate) - Alex Yev
Uninvited - Kouji Nishikawa, Masaomi Miura
Urban Champion - Hirokazu Tanaka
Wally Bear and the No Gang - Donald Forbes, Scott Schryver
Wayne's World - Paul Wilkinson
Wheel of Fortune - David Wise
Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition - David Wise
Wheel of Fortune: Junior Edition - David Wise
Wheel of Fortune: Starring Vanna White - Barry Leitch
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - David Wise
Wild Gunman - Hirokazu Tanaka
Win, Lose or Draw - Nick Scarim
Wizards & Warriors - David Wise
Wizards & Warriors III - David Wise
World Games - David Wise
Wrecking Crew - Koji Kondo
WWF King of the Ring - Mark Flitman/Mike Arkin/Tom Rademacher/Joe Allocco/Linda Spelman
WWF Steel Cage Challenge - Paul Webb
WWF Wrestlemania - David Wise
WWF Wrestlemania Challenge - David Wise
Xexyz - Hirohiko Takayama
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link - Akito Nakatsuka (Tsukasan)

by on (#82331)
Ed Bogas didn't do all the music to Action 52 and Cheetahmen II. He did do several songs as part of The Music Studio, which the Action 52 developers probably stole. "Fuzz Power / Cheetahmen II Title" was done by Ed Bogas, but there's no evidence that any other song from Cheetahmen II was his work.
But the music engine was taken from Paul Webb.

Also, there's several games missing from this list that were developed by Software Creations (Silver Surfer, Tom & Jerry...)

by on (#82333)
Doommaster1994 wrote:
Dragon's Lair - Tim Follin

Are you sure? It doesn't sound anything like his usual NES stuff.

by on (#82334)
@thefox: You're right, it isn't him. I talked to Mark Cooksey and he said he composed Dragon's Lair. That was a LONG time ago, I'm surprised I didn't change it. I guess I didn't notice it.

@Dwedit: Nobody's sure if Ed Bogas just composed more tunes for Active Enterprises or if they stole his music. Maybe he was paid to do the music. I tried to talking to him but he refuses to talk about it.
I don't know if it's Paul Webb's audio driver. I ripped some instruments from Action 52 and some Sculptured Software games. The drums aren't the same, and Paul Webb also used the triangle channel for his drums usually. I know I forgot to put some Software Creations games on there. I'm sure there's a million I'm missing. Keep a lookout for differences in the list as I'm updating it. I just added some Color Dreams games (Pesterminator, Sunday Funday/Menace Beach, Robodemons, etc.)

by on (#82757)
For Rygar (at least Argos no Senshi) I have Michiharu Hasuya. Is that the same person as Michiharu Hasutani?

Doommaster1994 wrote:
Maybe he was paid to do the music. I tried to talking to him but he refuses to talk about it.


If I were involved with Active Enterprises, I wouldn't want to talk about it either. :P

by on (#82759)
Yes, Michiharu Hasutani and Michiharu Hasuya are the same. I don't know which last name is real though.

by on (#82763)
A website named Cheetahmen Corner managed to get an interview with Jay Obernolte, developer of Color A Dinosaur and Genesis Action 52. So talking to people connected with Active Enterprises isn't completely out of the question.

by on (#82768)
I got a couple more game credits for you:

Adventures of Dr. Franken (Unreleased) - Mark Cooksey
Asmik Kun Land - Fumito Tamayama
Earthworm Jim (Pirate) - Alex Yeu
Michael Andretti's World Grand Prix - T. Mikumos, M. Bridgeroot
Predator - Junichi Saito?
Super Mario World (Pirate) - Alex Yeu?
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 4 (Pirate) - Alex Yeu

Gil recently did a translation of Asmik Kun Land. The game does not have credits but I can tell that's Fumito's audio driver that's being used in the game. Listen to Widget or Secret Ties and the listen to Asmik Kun Land. Also the non-looping songs in the NSFs make a weird repeating noise. I can't explain it. I'm REALLY DESPERATELY trying to find out the composer who worked for Mindscape. They developed Last Starfighter, M.U.L.E., Mad Max, Paperboy.
For the games by Elite and NMS Software, Mark Cooksey confirmed to me that he did music for those.
Also, for Sesame Street Countdown, the manual credits Michael Artin for the music too, but when I talked to him, he told me he didn't compose the music but he fixed the MIDI-conversion tool they used whenever it had problems. I decided to leave his name in the list because he's credited in the game's manual.

by on (#82772)
For SMW (pirate), would "Koji Kondo, arr. by Alex Yeu" fit?

by on (#82780)
Yeah that would work. I think Alex Yeu did the music because it sounds the same as Ultimate Mortal Kombat 4.

by on (#82783)
The NES Music engine that was used by Sunsoft that usually contains DMC, back then was mostly by Noboyuki Hara.

by on (#82787)
Platoon's not one of them though. I know Jon Dunn originally did the C64 version's music which was ported to the NES version but he said he gave Sunsoft the source code to the music. I asked Sunsoft who arranged the NES version of Jon Dunn's C64 soundtrack and they said it was David Whittaker. I know that may be hard to believe, but if Sunsoft said it, then it must be true. Also I think Naoki Kodaka had something to do with the DMC music too.

by on (#82788)
So John Dunn did not do the NES version of Platoon himself? :?

Nice to know I credited him for that.

by on (#82796)
Nope. He told me he handed over the source code to Sunsoft and they took it from there. The NES version has credits but the composer is credited as 'New' and the music programmer is credited as A.T.

Also, for the Lolo games I'm pretty sure it's Manami Matsumae. The GameBoy version has the same exact sound effects as the NES games and it credits her. Eggerland on the FDS credits the composer as 'Zap Ajisai' and Mekyuu no Fukkatsu (Revival of the Labyrinth) credits the composer as Nige no Kanazashi (Anybody got a translation for that?). I also think Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando had something to do with Lolo 3 because it uses the PCM samples from Kirby's Adventure, but I could be wrong.

by on (#82797)
Doommaster1994 wrote:
I also think Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando had something to do with Lolo 3 because it uses the PCM samples from Kirby's Adventure, but I could be wrong.

I wonder if some DPCM samples came with later versions of the devkit. I'm pretty sure Nintendo provided a basic sample bank with the Super NES devkit.

by on (#82799)
Jedi QuestMaster wrote:
For Rygar (at least Argos no Senshi) I have Michiharu Hasuya. Is that the same person as Michiharu Hasutani?


Interesting to see the actual name, I had it in some credits as "T. Hasuya" from somewhere. I've always strongly suspected it's the same person who also did Conflict, Golgo-13 TSE, Last Armageddon, Dr. Jekyll, which is some great stuff (including Rygar).

by on (#82809)
Memblers wrote:
Interesting to see the actual name, I had it in some credits as "T. Hasuya" from somewhere. I've always strongly suspected it's the same person who also did Conflict, Golgo-13 TSE, Last Armageddon, Dr. Jekyll, which is some great stuff (including Rygar).


Yes, Michiharu also composed those games. And there's a few more. I got his real name from Solomon's Key. I'm assuming it's the first game he worked on. In Kid Kool, he's credited as N. Hasuya, the N possible standing for 'hasutaNi'.

UPDATE: I recently talked to one of the game designers of Blues Brothers for the NES. He told me Christophe Fevre was the composer.

UPDATE 2: I talked with a former Mindscape employee, and he said that Nick Eastridge composed the NES version of Paperboy. Hal Canon composed the Arcade version which is where the NES version's music is ported from. So you can update your Paperboy NSF with Hal Canon and Nick Eastridge. Nick is also the very possible composer of Conan, Mad Max, M.U.L.E, The Last Starfighter. I'm also assuming he composed Paperboy 2 because the SNES version uses the same instrument samples as James Bond Jr. which credits him and Peter Stone. I am going to call him later today to get verification and update this post so keep your eyes peeled.
Also, Heroes of the Lance's music was ported from the MSX version, which is composed by Seiji Toda, but Hitoshi Sakimoto and Takeshi Yasuada ported the music to the NES version.

UPDATE 3: Nick Eastridge answered today but he said he did not work on video games or music so it must be the wrong guy or he's lying to me. Either way, whoever did Paperboy surely did all of the other Mindscape's NES games (as in the ones they developed) and that programmer told me Nick Eastridge composed the NES version of Paperboy, so add this to your list:

GAME - COMPOSER - DEVELOPER/PUBLISHER
Conan - Nick Eastridge - Mindscape
Last Starfighter - Nick Eastridge - Mindscape
M.U.L.E. - Roy Glover, Nick Eastridge - Mindscape
Mad Max - Nick Eastridge - Mindscape
Paperboy - Hal Canon, Nick Eastridge - Mindscape
Paperboy 2 - Nick Eastridge - Mindscape

I also saw him credited in these games under the Special Thanks list, so I assume he wrote the audio drivers and/or MIDI converters for the games:
Dirty Harry
Captain Planet and the Planeteers

by on (#83214)
Doommaster1994 wrote:
UPDATE 3: Nick Eastridge answered today but he said he did not work on video games or music so it must be the wrong guy or he's lying to me.


Was it him? I e-mailed him a long time ago but never got a reply.

If Eastridge really worked on all those Mindscape games, it's possible Gray Matter up in Canada was involved, too.

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VRC-7 wrote:
Doommaster1994 wrote:
UPDATE 3: Nick Eastridge answered today but he said he did not work on video games or music so it must be the wrong guy or he's lying to me.


Was it him? I e-mailed him a long time ago but never got a reply.

If Eastridge really worked on all those Mindscape games, it's possible Gray Matter up in Canada was involved, too.


Yup, that was the site the programmer sent me and I went to and it had his number so I called a couple times a day. But when he answered, he told me he never worked on music for video games. If it IS him, he probably said what he said to me because he was afraid I was going to say something bad about the music. I know he worked for Gray Matter too. If anybody else wants to take a swing at calling him, the number's on the site. He did sound kind of funny when he said it though.

I also have a couple Color Dreams composers. I got this info by talking to the composers themselves or from some interviews. I can link you the interviews if you want, but here are the composers:
Baby Boomer - John Borchert
Pesterminator - Dan Burke
Secret Scout and the Temple of Demise - Roger Deforest
Raid 2020 - Dan Burke, Frank Waung

The last author I have for you is for Harlem Globetrotters. I talked with the development company (Softie Inc.)'s founder Bruce Sandig and he said he wrote a MIDI conversion tool and gave Rob Wallace the sheet music to Sweet Georgia Brown (Globetrotters Theme?) and then Rob made a MIDI file and Bruce Sandig converted it to the NES. Softie Inc. only made this game and Classic Concentration, which Rob Wallace also composed, so add these to your author list:
GAME - COMPOSER
Classic Concentration - Rob Wallace
Harlem Globetrotters - Rob Wallace

Then some more composers for a game:
Tetris (Japanese version by BPS) - Hisashi Zero Yotsumoto, Hiroshi Taguchi, Hiroshi Suzuki.

Also, I thought I mentioned this before, but I asked Mike Riedel (Owner of RSP [Not to be confused with Rocket Science Productions]) Who composed the music for Win Lose or Draw and Remote Control since they don't have credits. He told me Nick Scarim did the music for those. For Sesame Street Countdown, the manual credits Russell Ginns and Michael Artin, though when I talked to Michael Artin, he said he only worked on the MIDI conversion tool. The game's music has lyrics which are about a hostage crisis. I have them written down if anyone's interested, and of course, Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide and Speak is composed by Nick Scarim, who is known to have composed the music to the Spy Vs. Spy games.

And in case somebody didn't list it already:
Asmik Kun Land - Fumito Tamayama?
J League Fighting Soccer - Shigenori Masuko, Youko Suzuki?
Secret Ties - Dosukoi(Bakkin)Tamayama (Fumito Tamayama)
Widget - S.Tachikawa, Fumito Tamayama, Thinp.Uchibori, Youko Suzuki.

All these games have the same exact instruments so maybe somebody reverse engineered the other person's driver? The games with '?' are the games that don't have credits. That also happened with Countdown and Radiance's games:
GAME - COMPOSER - DEVELOPER
Great Waldo Search - Doug Brandon - Radiance
Rollerblade Racer - Doug Brandon? - Radiance
Sesame Street Countdown - Russell Ginns - RSP

by on (#83229)
Eastridge didn't work for Gray Matter. He would have worked through his own company.

"S. Tachikawa" is Shinji Tachikawa.

Could you ask that Mindscape employee who developed NES Paperboy, et al.?

by on (#83244)
VRC-7 wrote:
Eastridge didn't work for Gray Matter. He would have worked through his own company.

"S. Tachikawa" is Shinji Tachikawa.

Could you ask that Mindscape employee who developed NES Paperboy, et al.?


The guy was the Associate Producer for Mindscape and he said Mindscape themselves developed it, as well as M.U.L.E., Mad Max, Last Starfighter and Conan. I asked him who composed the NES version's music and he said Nick Eastridge. All the NES and SNES games developed by Gray Matter I see Nick Eastridge credited in there though so I would assume he worked there. He usually collaborated with Peter Stone. The SNES games they did music for unfortunately can't have their SPCs dumped for some reason.

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Doommaster1994 wrote:
The SNES games they did music for unfortunately can't have their SPCs dumped for some reason.

Most games keep music sequence data and its interpreter in SPC700 RAM. Undumpable games like Wario's Woods stream the music sequence data to the SPC700. Instead of the messages over the IPC ports ($2140-$2143) resembling "startSong(OPENING_CUTSCENE_MUSIC)", they're closer to individual MIDI messages or individual MOD rows: "playNote(GUITAR, C-3, 50% volume)". To dump these songs as SPC would require porting them to a different playback engine that doesn't stream sequence data, and that's not unlike covering a spaghetti-ass NES game's soundtrack in FamiTracker.

by on (#83302)
lol I've done that before. *Cough*Color Dreams*Cough*
So are those undumpable SPCs possible to get dumped or is there no chance? I know that there's SNSF files but there aren't any for the ones I want (James Bond Jr., Paperboy 2, Wayne's World)

EDIT: Not sure if I mentioned this before but I went through and completed the godawful lightgun game from MegaSoft called Master Shooter and it credits G2 and Tommy Shih for the music. Could Tommy Shih be the real name of Martino, Melody or Ruth? The world may never know.
And I didn't see the full names of the composers for Werewolf so let me put them down: Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura and Yusuke Takahama. I also didn't see the composer for Burgertime listed so let me put it down here: Tokinori Kaneyasu.
Also:
Flinstones 1 - Y. Yamada, N. Yagashita
Flinstones 2 - S.Takahagi, Masafumi Ogata
Tecmo NBA Basketball - Paul Webb, The Fat Man (George Sanger).

by on (#85879)
I've found out that for those undumpable SPCs (specifically Mr. Bloopy and all of those Mindscape games with those shared sound drivers), they use pointers that update in real-time.

And for my two cents...

Cool World - Jonathan Dunn (ROM text. Currently I don't have a staff roll to work with for this game. The SNES version is missing a composer because there's nothing under the audio category in the staff roll.)

by on (#85892)
tepples wrote:
bucky o'hare wrote:
The soundtrack is identical across ports, but "Charley Sada" is credited in Stinger. So I thought that Rusher Shinya was a mistake at first, but he is in the Moero Twinbee credits instead! Unless they are the same person, but I'm pretty sure they are not because they have been credited together...?

Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (8th Mix) features contributions by DE-SIRE, RevenG, 180, Omega, Naoki, and ZZ. All are nicknames of Naoki MAEDA, and he wrote most of the music you hear in Overplayed. Likewise, Kyle Ward of In the Groove goes by Inspector K, KaW, :-), and others.

But more likely, one of them wrote the music for Stinger and another ported it to another platform.


Wow that's crazy that you guys mentioned this because I'm a huge DDR and ITG fan myself.
Does anyone on here happen to play these games? :P

by on (#85898)
Jeroen does. I used to be a big fan of DDR and ITG until Konami's lawyers went berserk against ITG.

by on (#85901)
Yeah it really killed everything. I was very upset about it since I grew up playing 8th Mix at the arcades, and also In The Groove 2.
Never was that good at them, but went to local tournaments and made a lot of friends just playing the game.

by on (#85902)
tepples wrote:
I used to be a big fan of DDR and ITG until Konami's lawyers went berserk against ITG.

And what does a company suing another have anything to do with you enjoying a game? Nothing that happens can possibly modify the games you already own and like.

by on (#85903)
As that's true, people get bored of playing the same songs and stepcharts.
It's true that customs for In The Groove arcade machines completely made the arcade as "Open Sourced" as it could get, but with In The Groove 3 being cancelled while it was close to completion and not having any other company that seemed to care so much towards the players, and how people felt about the game, Konami bought the franchise to prevent it from getting any better.
So what does Konami do?
Why they make more and more awful home versions of the same game whipped together with some awfully made remixes of Pop music.

by on (#85904)
tokumaru wrote:
tepples wrote:
I used to be a big fan of DDR and ITG until Konami's lawyers went berserk against ITG.

And what does a company suing another have anything to do with you enjoying a game?

Jeroen asked me that. It might have been a nagging fear: "am I next?" That plus the dense-foam dance pads that I owned at the time were wearing out.

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Nothing that happens can possibly modify the games you already own

Recalls can. So can breakdowns and inability to find replacement parts. There's no RedOctane anymore.

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and like.

After Konami v. Roxor went down, there was mumbling among the community about possible suits against the StepMania developers and people who make simfile packs, but I guess in five years that hasn't materialized.

by on (#85927)
I have a theory why: In The Groove was a commercial product (to some extent). Stepmania was not commercial to my knowledge.

by on (#86449)
I just got another game's credits:
J League Winning Goal credits Shige Chan and Yoko Chan, which are the aliases of Shigenori Masuko and Yoko Suzuki. I beat J League Fighting Soccer but there is no credits. The GameBoy version credits Fumito Tamayama but I think the GB version has different music, so I think Masuko and Suzuki are possible composers of it. I asked Fumito Tamayama if he composed those GRC games that didn't have credits but he never got back to me. (He has an account on the Project2612 forums.) Also, Predator I believe may have been composed by Junichi Saito. He has been credited on a lot of the Pack-In-Video games that happen to have credits.

I have found out the composer of the Lolo games and a few others.
All the Lolo games were composed by Hideki Kanazashi. In Eggerland he's credited as 'Zap Ajisai', in Meikyuu no Fukkatsu, he's credited as 'Nige no Kanazashi' (translate anyone?) and the NSF for Othello doesn't credit him, but he's in there credited as 'Rodeo Kanagushi'. I believe he also composed Joust, Millipede and Defender II. Also, seeing all the composers at Graphic Research, Fumito Tamayama may not have composed Asmik Kun Land, or at least, not alone. Hiroto Kanno, Shigenori Masuko, Shinji Tachikawa, Yoko Suzuki, and Tinpu Uchibori are also possible composers. I asked Fumito if he composed the game but he never replied. When I recorded the MP3 soundtrack, I just put the artists down as Fumito Tamayama, Shigenori Masuko and Yoko Suzuki.
Also, F-15 Strike Eagle's manual credits Ken Lagace, and some of the music in that game is also used in F-117A Stealth Fighter. If that doesn't convince you that Ken Lagace composed that, he confirmed it for me, too.

Oishinbo (Japan only) is composed by Michiharu Hasutani. I beat the game and it doesn't have credits, but I am planning on buying the game CIB on eBay. It uses Hasuya's instruments. All the songs in the game, as far as I know, are real songs, but I don't know the names of them. If someone knows their names, please let me know.

Update: 12/30/11 - I see that Boulderdash's NSF credits 'Victor Musical Industries'. The game has credits and it says that Yusuke Takahama, Takafumi Miura, and Shogo Sakai are the composers, so update your NSFs!

Update: 1/3/12 - Happy new year everyone! Last year, I played through a bunch of Sachen games that were known to have credits, but the composers were not in the NSFs. Most of the pictures of the credits can be found at the VGMPF Wiki under the Game Credits section. I also got a hold of Dan Lawton, founder of Color Dreams, and he told me Vance Kozik did the Wisdom Tree games' music.
Bible Adventures - Vance Kozik
Cobra Mission - Vincent Cheng
Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land - Vance Kozik
Gaiapolis - Chou Yuan-Hei
Hell Fighter - Lih-Chyun Maa, Mr. X
King Neptune's Adventure - John Dwyer
King of Kings: The Early Years - Vance Kozik
Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf - Aran Lee Shige
Magical Tower - Amadeus Y. Wang
Menace Beach/Sunday Funday - Vance Kozik
Mermaids of Atlantis/Bubble Bath Babes - Kossel Huang
Olympic IQ - Richard
Operation Secret Storm - Dan Lawton told me 'Sandy Sims' isn't a real person. Possibly an alias for John Dwyer.
Orb 3D - Peter Stone (May have mentioned this before, but if not, here it is.)
Parodius - Hiroshi Takeyasu, Tomoya Tomita (Credited only last names)
Puzzle - B.H. Ting?
Q-Boy - Yuan Mei Chou (I actually contacted this guy)
Raid 2020 - Dan Burke, Frank Waung
Robodemons - Dan Burke
Rockball - (Apparently this one's supposed to have credits, but I beat the game and didn't get any)
Silver Eagle - Amy Chou, Amadeus Wang
Super Pang - Amy Chou, L.K.C.
Tagin' Dragon - Rolland Cheng
Touchdown Fever - Tarkun, Niko-Chan Yoko
Worm Visitor - Amadeus L Wang, Ei How Yang

Update 4/30/12 - Today, you guys will know all the composers behind the Graphic Research games. I recently got in touch with Fumito Tamayama. He had some interesting things to say and he was able to recall the composers for the NES games which didn't have credits (Asmik Kun Land and J League Fighting Soccer):
Asmik Kun Land - Manabu Ito
Baken Hisshou Gaku: Gate In - Fumito Tamayama
Baseball Fighter - Fumito Tamayama
J League Fighting Soccer - Yoko Suzuki
J League Winning Goal - Shigenori Masuko, Yoko Suzuki
Secret Ties - Fumito Tamayama
Widget - Shinji Tachikawa, Fumito Tamayama, Tinpu Uchibori, Yuji Suzuki
Vegas Connection - Hiroto Kanno, Mai Kidokoro

Update 5-7-12
I have recently talked to former Kemco▲Seika programmer Hiroyuki Masuno, and he has verified for creating the music to all of the Kemco▲Seika games, so update your NSFs with Hiroyuki Masuno:
The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
Deja Vu
Kid Klown (Composer: M. Takenaka, Hiroyuki credited as Sound Performer)
North & South (With Y.Kawikame?) [kingshriek please verify this]
Shadowgate
Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular
Spy Vs Spy
Spy Vs Spy - Island Caper

Update 1-4-13
Motor City Patrol and Noah's Ark - Chris Gill (Sound Driver programmed by Link Tomlin)