Music

When it comes to its electronic games, Sega has been highly regarded for its music choices. Composers like Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Naofumi Hataya, Jun Senoue, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Fumio Ito, Tomoya Ohtani and Chihiro Aoki line both the classic and modern games with music produced for and on a variety of sound hardware which have all helped to shape its respective generation. Many artists who began their careers at Sega would go on to score many soundtracks for other companies, such as Katsuhiro Hayashi, Takayuki Nakamura, Keiichi Sugiyama and Eriko Sakurai.

Sega's ties with outside composers like Masato Nakamura of J-pop band DREAMS COME TRUE and Michael Jackson of American pop fame further set its devotion to game music in stone. There have also been many collaborations with freelance or contract game composers from companies like Ancient and T's Music, further expanding the styles of music in their games in addition to freeing up in-house development time. Soundtracks developed by third party composers for third party games further this tradition away from home, with some of the biggest names in both Japanese and American game music history contributing to every generation of Sega's video game hardware lineup.