Kentaro Koyama

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Kentaro Koyama
Date of birth: 1969-05-20[1] (age 55)
Employment history:
Sega Enterprises (1992 – )
Divisions:
Divisions:
Asobimo
XFLAG
Role(s): Composer, musician
Education: Shobi Gakuen University[2]

Kentaro Koyama (小山 健太郎) is a former Sega sound creator. He is best known as the sound director of the Virtual-On series and has also created the music for the first Virtua Cop title as well as both Gunblade NY and L.A. Machineguns. Alien 3: The Gun, which used the same gun controllers as Gunblade NY, is one of Koyama's earliest soundtracks.

Following his involvement with Yakuza 3, Koyama left Sega and has since worked for Asobimo and XFLAG.

Kentaro married in 1998,[3] taking on the surname Kobayashi (小林) and is credited as such from 1998 to 2001, then reverting to Koyama after divorce.[2] Whether or not he was married to fellow sound team member Chiho Kobayashi is unknown.

History

Career

Kentaro Koyama's first project after joining Sega in 1992 was composing some songs for the Mega Drive game Honoo no Toukyuuji Dodge Danpei.[4] He would soon after join the arcade sound team, his first game being the medal game Bingo Party for AM4. Composing the gun-based shooting game Alien 3: The Gun for AM1 led to him working mostly on shooters for the next few years, those being the large attraction Virtual Shooting by AM5 and the video game Virtua Cop by AM2.

Post-1995, Koyama exclusively began to work with AM3 and created some of his best-known, melodically rich soundtracks: Cyber Troopers Virtual-On, spawning one of the most iconic arcade fighting game of the 90's, and Gunblade NY, which extended the Virtual-On style but evolved into a unique breakbeat sound for the sequel L.A. Machineguns. While he mostly worked solo on his soundtracks for the first few years, he often worked with newcomer Yuko Iseki in the late 90's on further Virtual-On games and Jambo! Safari. Koyama and Iseki both graduated from Shobi Gakuen University, but did not overlap in the years they attended the school.[2]

The Virtual-On series continued until Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Marz in 2003, being relegated to crossovers and ports, so Koyama took on different projects, such as the Sammy-published pachinko machine CR Waiwai Bingo, racing game Sega Rally 2006, and Virtua Tennis 3 (though this soundtrack heavily reused music from the unreleased game Propeller Arena: Aviation Battle Championship. In 2007, Koyama and Hiroshi Kawaguchi mainly supervised the soundtracks for games such as Dinosaur King and Sega Superstars Tennis.

Koyama's final known work with Sega is the writing the unrest theme "Entrance to the Chaos" for Yakuza 3. By 2011, Koyama had left Sega to join an unspecified mobile game developer.[5] He has since worked for Asobimo (e.g. Puchitto! Chronicle -Online-, Toram Online) and XFLAG (e.g. Monster League, Fight League).

Production history

Games

Videos

Music

Song credits

Main article: Kentaro Koyama/Song credits.

Virtua Cop (Arcade version)

  • Night City — Music & Arrangement
  • Virtua Cop — Music & Arrangement
  • Advertise — Music & Arrangement
  • Stage Select — Music & Arrangement
  • Arms Black Market — Music & Arrangement
  • Kong — Music & Arrangement
  • Underground Weapon Storage — Music & Arrangement
  • King — Music & Arrangement
  • Gang Headquarters — Music & Arrangement
  • President — Music & Arrangement
  • Fang — Music & Arrangement
  • F I N — Music & Arrangement
  • Name Entry — Music & Arrangement
  • Game Over — Music & Arrangement
  • Stage Clear — Music & Arrangement
  • Rage — Music & Arrangement
  • Smarty — Music & Arrangement
  • Time (Not Use) — Music & Arrangement

Cyber Troopers Virtual-On (Arcade version)

  • New Orthodoxy — Music & Arrangement
  • Transition — Music & Arrangement
  • Sally — Music & Arrangement
  • In the Blue Sky — Music & Arrangement
  • Winner ver. 1 — Music & Arrangement
  • She's Lost Control (S.L.C.) — Music & Arrangement
  • Everything Merges with the Night — Music & Arrangement
  • Encounter — Music & Arrangement
  • Higher Ground — Music & Arrangement
  • Ruins — Music & Arrangement
  • Winner ver. 2 — Music & Arrangement
  • Warning — Music & Arrangement
  • Alice in the Wonderland — Music & Arrangement
  • Loser — Music & Arrangement
  • Patience — Music & Arrangement
  • Operation Moon Gate — Music & Arrangement
  • Earth Light — Music & Arrangement
  • The Wind Is Blowing — Music & Arrangement
  • Interlude — Music & Arrangement
  • Fade to Black — Music & Arrangement
  • Crystal Doom — Music & Arrangement
  • Report — Music & Arrangement
  • Absent Lovers — Music & Arrangement
  • Waiting Girl — Music & Arrangement
  • Burned by the Fire — Music & Arrangement
  • Atrophy — Music & Arrangement
  • Withdrawal — Music & Arrangement
  • From the Moon to Me — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
  • hypotension/case 02 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
  • hypotension/case 03 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
  • hypotension/case 05 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
  • SDB/comp 01 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
  • SDB/start 03 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
  • SDB/start 04 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
  • SDB/loser 01 — Music & Arrangement
  • SDB/loser 02 — Music & Arrangement

Virtua Cop (Saturn Version)

  • Virtua Cop — Music & Arrangement
  • Advertise — Music & Arrangement
  • Stage Select — Music & Arrangement
  • Arms Black Market — Music & Arrangement
  • Kong — Music & Arrangement
  • Underground Weapon Storage — Music & Arrangement
  • King — Music & Arrangement
  • Gang Headquarters — Music & Arrangement
  • President — Music & Arrangement
  • Fang — Music & Arrangement
  • F I N — Music & Arrangement
  • Name Entry — Music & Arrangement
  • Game Over — Music & Arrangement
  • Stage Clear — Music & Arrangement

Cyber Troopers "Virtual-On" Official Sound Data

  • In the Blue Sky (Arrange Version) — Music & Arrangement, Performed by, Programming
  • The Wind Is Blowing (Arrange Version) — Music & Arrangement, Performed by, Programming

Gunblade NY

  • Gun Blade — Music & Arrangement
  • Credit — Music & Arrangement
  • Mission Select — Music & Arrangement
  • S.A.A.F. — Music & Arrangement
  • Times Square — Music & Arrangement
  • Boss 01 — Music & Arrangement
  • Stage Clear — Music & Arrangement
  • Midtown Manhattan — Music & Arrangement
  • United Nations H.Q. (515 Hours) — Music & Arrangement
  • Cargo Ship — Music & Arrangement
  • Boss 02 — Music & Arrangement
  • Brooklyn Bridge — Music & Arrangement
  • Battery Park — Music & Arrangement
  • Grand Army Plaza — Music & Arrangement
  • Midtown Night (Cry for You Lost Rainbow) — Music & Arrangement
  • Boss 03 — Music & Arrangement
  • Mission Complete — Music & Arrangement
  • Congratulations — Music & Arrangement
  • Gun Blade (short Ver.) — Music & Arrangement
  • Congratulations (long Ver.) — Music & Arrangement
  • Stage Select (Not Used) — Music & Arrangement
  • Continue (Not Used) — Music & Arrangement
  • Stage Clear 02 — Music & Arrangement
  • Stage Clear 02 (long Ver.) — Music & Arrangement

L.A. Machineguns

  • Rage of the machines / advertising BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • stage select — Music & Arrangement
  • Jet Squadron / Los Angeles stage BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • Black Judge / Los Angeles boss BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • mission success — Music & Arrangement
  • water raid / Alcatraz stage BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • Xenophobia / Alcatraz boss BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • The Goon / Las Vegas stage BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • out flankers / Las Vegas boss BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • mission failed — Music & Arrangement
  • smart sting / Yosemite stage BGM 1 — Music & Arrangement
  • overload / Yosemite stage BGM 2 — Music & Arrangement
  • Triskelion / Yosemite boss BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • Warning~Load of the Pit / Valley of fire stage BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • name entry — Music & Arrangement
  • Triumph / ending BGM 1 — Music & Arrangement
  • Patriot's Delight / ending BGM 2 — Music & Arrangement
  • Jet Squadron remix version — Music & Arrangement

Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Remixes "Oratorio Tangram"

Crackin' DJ

  • Glamorous Fingers — Music & Arrangement
  • hipster — Music & Arrangement
  • road to the desert — Music & Arrangement
  • Double Moon — Music & Arrangement
  • glamorous fingers (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
  • hipster (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
  • road to the desert (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
  • double moon (scratching) — Music & Arrangement

Crackin' DJ Part 2

  • Natural Flow — Music & Arrangement
  • Miracle Cave — Music & Arrangement
  • Psychoanalyze — Music & Arrangement

Dennou Senki Virtual-On: Force

  • transition '01 ~ Force — Music & Arrangement
  • MSBS ver. 7.5 — Music & Arrangement
  • intermission ~ get ready — Music & Arrangement
  • tidal blue — Music & Arrangement
  • promotion — Music & Arrangement
  • S.L.C. '01 — Music & Arrangement
  • high on hope '01 — Music & Arrangement
  • encounter — Music & Arrangement
  • in the blue sky '01 — Music & Arrangement
  • conquista ciela — Music & Arrangement
  • air time — Music & Arrangement
  • no mercy — Music & Arrangement
  • the wind is blowing '01 — Music
  • loser ver. 2 — Music & Arrangement
  • lonely dancer — Music & Arrangement
  • destructive happiness — Music & Arrangement
  • winner ver. 01 — Music & Arrangement
  • fit so tight — Music & Arrangement
  • tiger! tiger! — Music & Arrangement
  • loser ver. 03 — Music & Arrangement
  • demotion — Music & Arrangement
  • 515 hours — Music & Arrangement
  • winner ver. 02 — Music & Arrangement
  • put your future out of frame — Music & Arrangement
  • loser ver. 1 — Music & Arrangement
  • patience — Music & Arrangement
  • winner ver. 03 — Music & Arrangement
  • news — Music & Arrangement
  • models — Music & Arrangement
  • from the ruins — Music & Arrangement
  • black minalouche — Music & Arrangement
  • double P — Music & Arrangement
  • tears for bloody solid — Music & Arrangement
  • cry for your lost rainbow — Music & Arrangement
  • withdrawal — Music & Arrangement

Virtual-On 10th Anniversary Tournament "We Are The Champions!"

Sega Rally 2006

  • Toroidal Game — Music & Arrangement
  • Violently Overtaking — Music & Arrangement
  • Blue Horizon — Music & Arrangement

Yakuza 3

  • Entrance to the Chaos — Music & Arrangement

Photographs

Main article: Photos of Kentaro Koyama

Magazine articles

Main article: Kentaro Koyama/Magazine articles.

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://backup.segakore.fr/hitmaker/game/SOUND/SITE/member03.html
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://backup.segakore.fr/hitmaker/game/SOUND/SITE/colmun30.html (Wayback Machine: 2024-05-01 19:45)
  3. ↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "1999-39 (1999-12-17,24)" (JP; 1999-12-03), page 74
  4. ↑ @mito_chusui on X (archive.today)
  5. ↑ https://media.vgm.io/albums/06/30260/30260-1503780292.jpg
  6. ↑ File:Honoo no Toukyuuji MD credits.pdf
  7. ↑ File:Alien3TheGun bestplayers1.png
  8. ↑ File:VirtuaC1 Saturn JP SSEnding.pdf
  9. ↑ File:NiGHTS into Dreams Saturn credits.pdf
  10. ↑ File:Cyber Troopers Virtual On Saturn credits.pdf
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 File:DSVOOST CD JP Booklet.pdf, page 7
  12. ↑ File:GNYLAMOST CD JP Booklet.pdf, page 7
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