A group of anarchist scientists creates two androids, code-named "Ninja" and "Kunoichi", in order to stop Banglar's reign. In a dystopian Earth of 1993, the President of the United States, Banglar, issues martial law, throwing a veil of terror and injustice over the nation. This first song comes from the action title The Ninja Warriors, released in the arcade on 1988.
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Taiko 7 to 10, 12 to 12.5, Taiko PS2 5, Taiko PS Vita Densha de Densha de GO!GO!GO!GC! -GMT remix.One of its oldest members, Tamayo Kawamoto, left the band in 2006 and founded another band, Betta Flash, with the singer Cyua. In its more than 15 years of activity, the band has featured a number of famous Taito developers, such as Masahiko Takaki (Mar.), Yasuhisa Watanabe (Yack), Shuichiro Nakazawa (SHU) and Kazuko Umino (karn.).
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Taito was bought up by Square Enix in 2005, making it a subsidiary of the publishing giant, however its projects are still independent from that of Square Enix's, and continues to churn out high-quality games like the Cooking Mama franchise, Music GunGun and BlazBlue, and of course, not forgetting the continuing success of its classic franchises like Bubble Bobble and its countless other shooter games.Īll the Taito game songs in this series are composed by ZUNTATA, the official Taito sound team founded by Hisayoshi Ogura (also known as OGR). Its first videogame was released in 1978, which is the now-classic Space Invaders, one of the games that triggered the boom period for arcade gaming in the 1980s.Īfter Space Invaders, the trading company shifted into the interactive entertainment world permanently, renamed as Taito Corporation. But did you know that despite being completely based in Japan, Taito was not founded by a Japanese person? It's true! It was founded in 1953 by Michael Kogan, a Russian Jewish businessman as Taito Trading Company, which mainly deals in the import/export of vending machines and jukeboxes. Eyes on Me" was the first song in video game history to win an award at the 14th Annual Japan Gold Disc Awards, where it won "Song of the Year (Western Music)" in 1999Īlso Yasonari Mitsuda did in fact score chrono trigger and chrono cross as well.Taito is one of the more well-known Japanese game makers, mostly for its classic coin-ops, and several of its gaming franchises prevail even today. It was released as a CD single () in Japan, including an instrumental version and Wong's ballad "Red Bean". The song's lyrics, written in English by Kako Someya (), unveil the hopes of a night club singer for romance with a member of her audience. It was performed by Chinese singer Faye Wong () and composed, like the rest of the game music, by Nobuo Uematsu (). "Eyes on Me" is the ballad ((music)) that serves as the theme of the game Final Fantasy VIII ().
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The full orchestra version of Aerith's theme from FF7 is breathtaking, I really wish I could have seen the Tour de Japon liveĪs for FF8, who would have ever thought that a song from a video game could be awarded a "song of the year" nomination, let alone the award The Final Fantasy piano collections are fantastic listening. I mentioned this in the first music draft, that Nobuo Uematsu doesnt get enough recognition outside of Japan as a video game composer, but I do enjoy his work quite a bit. Not a big deal now, seeing as a real orchestra is commonly used for games now, but nine years ago it was a big deal! I also got the Tokyo Royal Philharmonic playing the FF8 score. Xenogears was simply one of the most beautiful scores I have ever heard. Yasonari Mitsuda, who did Xenogears I think also did Crono Trigger, but alas my work blocks some funny websites (compared to others, like CP for example) so I cannot research this fact. That game had over 180 seperate compositions, and was the first to use character themes and locale themes along with battle music and other styles to create a cinematic feel. Final Fantasy VIII and Xenogears (both on PS1) were groundbreaking soundtracks that changed forever the way music was integrated into RPG video games.įinal Fantasy VI (III in North America) was the first glimpses of the true genius of Nobuo Uematsu.