Morihiko Akiyama

Morihiko Akiyama
Employment history: Santos Megasoft Sega of Japan
Role(s): Musician

Morihiko "Ker" Akiyama (秋山 守彦) is a former Sega sound designer. Along with Masayuki Nagao and Hirofumi Murasaki, he originally worked for Santos, which was renamed Megasoft upon Sega's acquisition of the company in December 1991.

He is best known for producing the sound for Columns III: Revenge of Columns. His instrument of choice was PC keyboards.

Since leaving Sega in the mid-90s, he has worked on ASCII's Tsukuru/Tcool/Tkool series.

Production history

• Toki: Going Ape Spit (Mega Drive; 1991) — Sound (as Akiyama)
• Aa Harimanada (Mega Drive; 1993) — Sound (as Ker Akiyama)
• Columns III: Revenge of Columns (Mega Drive; 1993) — Sound Production (as Ker Akiyan)
• Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit (Mega-CD; 1994) — Sound Effect (as Ker Akiyama)
• Simulation RPG Tsukuru (Saturn; 1998) — Sound Director

• Super Mega Drive Fan Vol. 2 - Mega Drive Super Music Collection (CD) (1994) (as Ker Akiyama)

Song credits

Main article: Morihiko Akiyama/Song credits.

Columns III: Revenge of Columns

• Columns March (Title) — Arrangement
• Chicken of Three Feathers (Select) — Music & Arrangement
• Enigma (Demo) — Music & Arrangement
• Start — Music & Arrangement
• Explorer (BGM 1) — Music & Arrangement
• Victory — Music & Arrangement
• Stage Clear — Music & Arrangement
• Scene of Carnage (BGM 2) — Music & Arrangement
• Congratulations! (Ending) — Music & Arrangement
• Column Dive (Staff Roll) — Music & Arrangement
• Morning — Music & Arrangement
• Chinese Bicycle — Music & Arrangement
• Yuki Gassen — Music & Arrangement
• First Year of Genroku — Music & Arrangement
• Networked Melon — Music & Arrangement
• Sunday — Music & Arrangement
• Grimoar Expert — Music & Arrangement
• Pemo Pemo Kuroto — Music & Arrangement
• Everyone in the Harbor — Music & Arrangement
• Industrial District — Music & Arrangement

Super Mega Drive Fan Vol. 2 - Mega Drive Super Music Collection

• Column Festival — Music & Arrangement