Masafumi Ogata
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Masafumi Ogata |
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Place of birth: Akita Prefecture, Japan |
Date of birth: 1968-08-24 (age 56) |
Employment history:
AMS
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Role(s): Musician |
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Masafumi Ogata (尾形 雅史) is a former Sega composer.
Contents
- 1 Career
- 2 Aliases
- 3 Production history
- 4 Song credits
- 4.1 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Master System and Game Gear Versions)
- 4.2 Super Mega Drive Fan Vol. 1 - Mega CD Super Music Collection
- 4.3 Sonic CD (Japanese edition)
- 4.4 Super Mega Drive Fan Vol. 2 - Mega Drive Super Music Collection
- 4.5 Sonic Drift
- 4.6 Ristar (Mega Drive Version)
- 4.7 Dream Generation: Koi ka? Shigoto ka!?...
- 4.8 Radio DC
- 4.9 Death Crimson 2
- 4.10 Death Crimson OX
- 5 References
Career
He has composed music for two Sonic games and one related CD (alongside Naofumi Hataya) and is notable for composing the opening theme song to Sonic CD, Sonic - You Can Do Anything (also known as Toot Toot Sonic Warrior). He is also credited under the alias "Gatao" (which is an anagram of Ogata) in the 8-bit version of Sonic 2, which contains a version of that song as the background music for the stage Green Hills Zone, almost certainly made before the version in Sonic CD. Other than Sonic games, he composed the song "Crying World," the theme for Round 6-1 in Ristar. In November 2011, it was revealed by Masayuki Nagao that Ogata composed the "theme song for Sonic Drift" and Nagao just arranged it.
Following his work at Sega, Ogata has gone on to be employed by AMS co., ltd., where he composed music for games developed by Yuke's, Ecole, and a few Japan-exclusive games by C's Ware. He remained there from at least late 1997 to late 2001.
He has also worked with Momo Michishita (better known as simply "momo") on occasion, as she provided the main vocals for "Brand-new World" from Sonic the Hedgehog - Remix (which Ogata arranged) and sang the ending theme of Death Crimson 2, "Maybe someday" (she also voiced the game's protagonist, Yuri Rosenberg).
Aliases
Masafumi Ogata has used a variety of aliases, usually no more than 2 or 3 times. Typically these play off his name, most obviously "Gatao" in Sonic the Hedgehog and "O-gata" in several remix albums related to Sonic the Hedgehog CD. More obtuse are "Gas Ges Gos" in Golden Axe II and "Type-O" in Defenders of Oasis (Type being an uncommon translation of 形, one of the kanji within Ogata).
"Masashi Ogata", which uses an alternative reading of 雅史, is his most commonly used alias, first appearing in 1995 Ristar and Olio2 (in the latter case it is clearly not an erroneous reading of the kanji, as it is written in hiragana as オガタマサシ). The name would later appear in 1999 with 70's Robot Anime GPX Drama Mix CD and Platina Selection.[1]
Production history
Games
- Hyper Marbles (Mega Drive; 1991) — 音楽[2] (as M.O)
- Golden Axe II (Mega Drive; 1991) — Special Thanks[3] (as Gas Ges Gos)
- Defenders of Oasis (Game Gear; 1992) — Sound[4] (as Type-O)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Game Gear; 1992) — Sound[5] (as Gatao)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Master System; 1992) — Sound[6] (as Gatao)
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Mega-CD; 1993) — Music by[7]
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Mega-CD; 1993) — BGM Composed and Arranged[7]
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Mega-CD; 1993) — Special Thanks[8]
- Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit (Mega-CD; 1994) — Composer[9] (as Mo)
- Ristar (Mega Drive; 1995) — Special Thanks to[10] (as Masashi Ogata)
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Windows PC; 1996) — Special Thanks[11]
- Sonic Jam (Saturn; 1997) — Music by[12]
- Death Crimson 2: Meranito no Saidan (Dreamcast; 1999) — 音楽 (as 尾形 雅史)
- WWF Royal Rumble (Dreamcast; 2000) — Sound Engineers
- Death Crimson OX (Dreamcast; 2001) — Sound Compose
- Rez (Dreamcast; 2001) — Assistant Sound Creator
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Xbox 360; 2011) — Music by
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Xbox 360; 2011) — BGM Composed and Arranged
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (PlayStation 3; 2011) — Music by
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (PlayStation 3; 2011) — BGM Composed and Arranged
Music
- Sonic the Hedgehog - Remix (CD; 1994) — Arranger[13] (as o-gata)
- Radio DC No. 3: Mafuyu ni Kiku Game Ongaku (CD; 2003) — music composer[14]
- Sonic CD (Vinyl; 2019) — Composed by[15]
Hardware
- Sega Mega-CD (Mega-CD; 1991) — BIOS Screen Music Composer
- Super Mega Drive Fan Vol. 1 - Mega CD Super Music Collection (CD) (1993) (as O-gata)
- Super Mega Drive Fan Vol. 2 - Mega Drive Super Music Collection (CD) (1994) (as O-gata)
- Sonic Drift (1994)
- Dream Generation: Koi ka? Shigoto ka!?... (1998) — Music & Arrangement
- Radio DC (CD) (1999)
Song credits
- Main article: Masafumi Ogata/Song credits.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Master System and Game Gear Versions)
- Under Ground Zone — Music & Arrangement
- Green Hills Zone — Music & Arrangement
Super Mega Drive Fan Vol. 1 - Mega CD Super Music Collection
- Sonic 6290 Mix — Original Music (with Naofumi Hataya), Remixed by
Sonic CD (Japanese edition)
- Sonic - You Can Do Anything — Music & Arrangement
- Title — Music & Arrangement
- Little Planet — Music & Arrangement
- Collision Chaos — Music & Arrangement
- Collision Chaos "G" mix — Music & Arrangement
- Collision Chaos "P" mix — Music & Arrangement
- Collision Chaos "B" mix — Music & Arrangement
- Tidal Tempest — Music & Arrangement
- Tidal Tempest "G" mix — Music & Arrangement
- Tidal Tempest "P" mix — Music & Arrangement
- Tidal Tempest "B" mix — Music & Arrangement
- Wacky Workbench — Music & Arrangement
- Wacky Workbench "G" mix — Music & Arrangement
- Wacky Workbench "P" mix — Music & Arrangement
- Wacky Workbench "B" mix — Music & Arrangement
- Speed Up!! — Music & Arrangement
- Invincible!! — Music & Arrangement
- Game Over — Music & Arrangement
- Special Stage — Music & Arrangement
Super Mega Drive Fan Vol. 2 - Mega Drive Super Music Collection
- Sonic After-6290 Mix — Original Music, Remixed by
Sonic Drift
- Title — Music
Ristar (Mega Drive Version)
- Crying World (Round 6-1) — Music & Arrangement
Dream Generation: Koi ka? Shigoto ka!?...
- Dream Wings — Arrangement
- You are not Enough — Arrangement
- Totally Secret — Arrangement
- December Magic — Arrangement
- Gentle Breeze — Music & Arrangement
- image — Music & Arrangement
- STEP! — Music & Arrangement
- try it on — Music & Arrangement
- The Moon by the Window — Music & Arrangement
- Dream Generation ~Koi Ka? Shigoto Ka!? ...~ — Arrangement
Radio DC
- Sonic - You Can Do Anything ~Remix from Little Planet~ — Music & Re-arrangement
Death Crimson 2
- Maybe someday — Music & Arrangement
- Power of Time — Music & Arrangement
- Accrade — Music & Arrangement
- Decision — Music & Arrangement
- Grid of Century — Music & Arrangement
- Scope — Music & Arrangement
- antante — Music & Arrangement
- Distant Thought — Music & Arrangement
- Drop of Mind — Music & Arrangement
- Impression — Music & Arrangement
- Rhapsody — Music & Arrangement
- Wind of the street — Music & Arrangement
- True Story — Music & Arrangement
- Path — Music & Arrangement
Death Crimson OX
- Museum — Music
- Porvenir — Music
- Bamiya — Music
- Disappearance — Music
- OX Title — Music
- OX Ending — Music
References
- ↑ https://vgmdb.net/artist/1471 (Wayback Machine: 2023-06-25 18:00)
- ↑ File:Hyper Marbles MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Golden Axe II MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Defenders of Oasis GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic the Hedgehog 2 GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic the Hedgehog 2 SMS credits.pdf
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 File:Sonic CD MCD JP credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic CD MCD US credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Heavenly Symphony MCD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Ristar MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic CD PC DirectX good ending credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic Jam Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:StHR CD JP booklet.pdf, page 3
- ↑ File:RadioDCNo3 CD JP Box.jpg
- ↑ File:SonicCD Vinyl UK back.jpg