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Revision as of 10:20, 29 July 2023
Tokuhiko Uwabo |
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Date of birth: 1960-04-26 (age 64) |
Employment history:
Divisions:
Agricultor (2014-04[1] – )
Muddle Through Fam (2016-01[1] – )
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Role(s): Composer, Sound Designer, Programmer |
Education: University of Tsukuba (1984)[1] |
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Tokuhiko Uwabo (上保 徳彦) is a Japanese businessman and musician, and former Sega of Japan composer, sound designer, and programmer.
Contents
- 1 Career
- 2 Equipment
- 3 Production history
- 4 Song credits
- 4.1 Satellite 7
- 4.2 Fantasy Zone (Master System Version)
- 4.3 Choplifter (Master System Version)
- 4.4 Action Fighter (Master System Version)
- 4.5 Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Master System Version)
- 4.6 Space Harrier (Master System Version)
- 4.7 Woody Pop: Shinjinrui no Block Kuzugi
- 4.8 Great Volleyball
- 4.9 Sukeban Deka II: Shoujo Tekkamen Densetsu
- 4.10 The Black Onyx (SG-1000 Version)
- 4.11 SDI (Master System Version)
- 4.12 After Burner (Master System Version)
- 4.13 Phantasy Star
- 4.14 Space Harrier II
- 4.15 Phantasy Star II
- 4.16 Super Daisenryaku (Mega Drive Version)
- 4.17 Phantasy Star II (Overseas)
- 4.18 Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf
- 4.19 Sorcerian (Mega Drive Version)
- 4.20 Columns (Arcade version)
- 4.21 Columns (Mega Drive Version)
- 4.22 Super Monaco GP (Mega Drive Version)
- 4.23 Columns (Game Gear Version)
- 5 Magazine articles
- 6 Photographs
- 7 External links
- 8 References
Career
Tokuhiko Uwabo is one of the older sound members in Sega's history, more commonly known by his alias, Bo. He mainly dealt with sound porting during the Master System era and shifted to a more advisory role for the Mega Drive era, with the Game Gear version of Columns being his last time directly working on a game's sound.[3] He also composed the music for the first two Phantasy Star titles.
Though Uwabo's last known game with Sega was Sonic 3 & Knuckles in 1994, he has stayed in touch with the company following its release. In 1995, he transferred to Sega of Europe's development team, residing in Richmond, London, England. In 1997, he returned to Sega of Japan, but quit sometime afterward. He then spent the next 10 years between some number of investment companies, including a new role as a Venture Capitalist in Tokyo looking over different investment portfolios in Asia.
In June 2007 he joined Winlight Co., Ltd., a mobile gaming company, and worked there as a director. After Winlight was bought in 2012 by Singapore-based Pole To Win Asia Pte. Ltd., Uwabo was promoted to Managing Director. Despite having left Sega (which was unofficially publicized as early as April 2006 via liner notes), he has provided commentary for recent Wave Master soundtrack releases of his compositions.
Uwabo currently lives and works in Singapore.
Equipment
In a late 1987 issue of Beep, Tokuhiko Uwabo detailed some of the equipment he used when making music, including the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer keyboard, the Yamaha BX1 bass guitar and a Dynaware MIDI Music Processor.[4]
Production history
Games
- Satellite 7 (Master System; 1985)
- Slap Shooter (System E; 1986)[5]
- Transformer (System E; 1986)
- Fantasy Zone (Master System; 1986) — Music by[6] (as Noah Toku)
- Action Fighter (Master System; 1986) — Music
- Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Master System; 1986) — Sound (as Toku)
- Space Harrier (Master System; 1986) — Music Arranger (as Bo)
- The Black Onyx (SG-1000; 1987) — Sound Composer (as Bo)
- Woody Pop (Master System; 1987) — Music
- Great Volleyball (Master System; 1987) — Music
- Sukeban Deka II: Shoujo Tekkamen Densetsu (Master System; 1987) — Music Composed by (as Bo)
- Zillion (Master System; 1987) — Sound Coordinate (as Bo)
- OutRun (Master System; 1987) (as T.U)
- Great Golf (Master System; 1987)[7] (as Bo)
- SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative (Master System; 1987)
- After Burner (Master System; 1987) — Music Porting
- Phantasy Star (Master System; 1987) — Sound[8] (as Bo)
- Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa (System E; 1988)
- Space Harrier 3D (Master System; 1988) — Special Thanks (as Bo)
- Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished Omen (Master System; 1988) — Sound (as Bo)
- Space Harrier II (Mega Drive; 1988) — Sound Composer[9] (as Bo)
- Space Harrier II (Mega Drive; 1988) — Sound Programmer[9] (as Bo)
- Poseidon Wars 3D (Master System; 1989) — Sound Coordinator (as Bo)
- Phantasy Star II (Mega Drive; 1989) — Musical Composer[10] (as Bo)
- Super Daisenryaku (Mega Drive; 1989) — Sound Programed and Composed by[11] (as Mr.Bo)
- Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf (Mega Drive; 1989) — うるとら おちゃめな[12] (as Bo)
- Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf (Mega Drive; 1989) (as BO)
- The Revenge of Shinobi (Mega Drive; 1989) — Sound Coordinator, Sound Programmer[13] (as Bo)
- Sorcerian (Mega Drive; 1990) — Scenario Written[14] (as Bo)
- Sorcerian (Mega Drive; 1990) — Music Composed[14] (as Bo)
- Columns (System C; 1990) — Composer (as Bo)
- Columns (Mega Drive; 1990) — Composer (as Bo)
- ESWAT: City Under Siege (Mega Drive; 1990) — Sound Coordinator[15] (as Bo)
- Super Monaco GP (Mega Drive; 1990) — Music Composer[16] (as Bo)
- Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Mega Drive; 1990) — Sound Adviser[17] (as Bo)
- Columns (Game Gear; 1990) — Composer (as Bo)
- 16t (Mega Drive; 1991) — Special Thanks to[18] (as Bo)
- Flicky (Mega Drive; 1991) — Special Thanks[19] (as Bo)
- Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Master System; 1991) — Sound Director[20] (as B. O)
- Battle Golfer Yui (Mega Drive; 1991) — Special Thanks[21] (as BO)
- Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Game Gear; 1991) — Sound Director[22] (as B. O)
- Streets of Rage (Mega Drive; 1991) — Special Thanks to[23] (as Bo)
- QuackShot Starring Donald Duck (Mega Drive; 1991) — Sound Producer[24] (as Bo)
- Summer Games (Master System; 1991) — Sound Programming
- Wondermega Collection (Mega-CD; 1992) — Special Thanks (as Bo)
- Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II (Master System; 1992) — Sound (as Bo)
- Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II (Mega Drive; 1992) — Sound Creator[25] (as Bo)
- Dyna Brothers (Mega Drive; 1992) — Sega R&D Dept[26]
- Bio-Hazard Battle (Mega Drive; 1992) — Special Thanks to[27] (as Bo)
- Panic! (Mega-CD; 1993) — スーパーバイザー[28] (as 上保 徳彦)
- Panic! (Mega-CD; 1993) — Supervisors[29]
- Golden Axe III (Mega Drive; 1993) — Sound Program[30] (as BO)
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (Mega Drive; 1993) — Special Thanks[31] (as 上保 徳彦)
- Game no Kanzume Vol. 2 (Mega-CD; 1994) — Special Thanks to[18] (as Bo)
- Game no Kanzume Vol. 1 (Mega-CD; 1994) — Special Thanks (as Bo)
- Sonic & Knuckles (Mega Drive; 1994) — SEGA Sound Team[32] (as Bo)
- Shinobi Legions (Saturn; 1995) — Technical Support
- Sakura Taisen Hanagumi Tsuushin (Saturn; 1997) — プロデューサー[33] (as 上保 徳彦)
- Panic! (PlayStation 2; 2002) — スーパーバイザー (as 上保 徳彦)
Music
- SING!! Sega Game Music Presented by B.B. Queens (CD; 1992) — Directed by[34] (as 上保 徳彦)
- Phantasy Star Collection: Sound Collection I (CD; 1993) — Executive Producer
- Phantasy Star Collection: Sound Collection I (CD; 1993) — Music Composer (as Bo)
- Phantasy Star Collection: Sound Collection II (CD; 1993) — Executive Producer (as Bo)
- Sonic & Knuckles Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (CD; 1994) — Executive Producer (as BO)
- Sega Simulation Best: Advanced Daisenryaku Original Soundtrack (CD; 2006) — Special Thanks (as Bo)
- Phantasy Star 1st Series Complete Album (CD; 2008) — Commentator[35] (as Tokuhiko "BO" Uwabo)
- Alex Kidd Complete Album (CD; 2009) — SPECIAL THANKS to
Song credits
- Main article: Tokuhiko Uwabo/Song credits.
Satellite 7
- Title — Music & Arrangement
- Main BGM — Music & Arrangement
- Game Over — Music & Arrangement
Fantasy Zone (Master System Version)
- Title — Arrangement
- Opa-Opa! [Rd. 1] — Arrangement
- Boss [Rd. 1~7 Boss] — Arrangement
- Round Up [Round Clear] — Arrangement
- Keep on the Beat [Rd. 2] — Arrangement
- Saari [Rd. 3] — Arrangement
- Prome [Rd. 4] — Arrangement
- Hot Snow [Rd. 5] — Arrangement
- Don't Stop [Rd. 6] — Arrangement
- Dreaming Tomorrow [Rd. 7] — Arrangement
- Shop — Arrangement
- Ya-Da-Yo [Rd. 8 Boss] — Arrangement
- Victory Way [Ending] — Arrangement
- Game Over — Arrangement
Choplifter (Master System Version)
- Round Start — Arrangement
- Round 1 BGM — Music & Arrangement
- Round Clear — Music & Arrangement
- Round 2 BGM — Arrangement
- Round 3 BGM — Arrangement
- Ending — Music & Arrangement
- Game Over — Arrangement
Action Fighter (Master System Version)
- Title — Music & Arrangement
- Mission Briefing — Music & Arrangement
- Ground Stage BGM — Music & Arrangement
- Hidden Character — Music & Arrangement
- Take Off — Music & Arrangement
- Air Stage BGM — Music & Arrangement
- Sega Jingle — Music & Arrangement
- Hidden Character 2 — Music & Arrangement
- Boss — Music & Arrangement
- Mission Clear — Music & Arrangement
- Ending — Music & Arrangement
- Game Over — Music & Arrangement
Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Master System Version)
- Title — Music & Arrangement
- Start — Music & Arrangement
- Alex Kidd (Main Theme) — Music & Arrangement
- Swimming — Music & Arrangement
- Item Obtain — Music & Arrangement
- Scopaco Cycle (Unused) — Music & Arrangement
- Petit-Copter — Music & Arrangement
- Castle — Music & Arrangement
- Jung-Keng — Music & Arrangement
- Ending — Music & Arrangement
- Miss — Music & Arrangement
- Game Over — Music & Arrangement
Space Harrier (Master System Version)
- Main BGM — Arrangement
- Squilla — Arrangement
- Ida — Arrangement
- Godarni — Arrangement
- Wiwi Jumbo — Arrangement
- Battle Field — Arrangement
- Syura — Arrangement
- Valda — Arrangement
- Stanray — Arrangement
- Haya-Oh — Music & Arrangement
- Lake Side Memory — Arrangement
- Game Over — Arrangement
- White Summer — Arrangement
- Lovers — Music & Arrangement
Woody Pop: Shinjinrui no Block Kuzugi
- Title — Music & Arrangement
- Round Start — Music & Arrangement
- BGM 1 — Music & Arrangement
- Round Clear — Music & Arrangement
- BGM 2 — Music & Arrangement
- Game Over — Music & Arrangement
- Continue — Music & Arrangement
- BGM 3 — Music & Arrangement
- Demo — Music & Arrangement
- Ending — Music & Arrangement
Great Volleyball
- Title — Music & Arrangement
- USA — Arrangement
- USSR — Arrangement
- China — Arrangement
- Korea — Arrangement
- Japan — Arrangement
- Brazil — Arrangement
- Cuba — Arrangement
- France — Arrangement
- Win — Music & Arrangement
- Lose — Music & Arrangement
Sukeban Deka II: Shoujo Tekkamen Densetsu
- Title — Music & Arrangement
- Main BGM — Music & Arrangement
- Battlin' Days (Action BGM 1) — Music & Arrangement
- In Search of Freedom (Action BGM 2) — Music & Arrangement
- The Will to Love (Ending BGM) — Music & Arrangement
- Game Over — Music & Arrangement
The Black Onyx (SG-1000 Version)
- Title — Music & Arrangement
- Main BGM — Music & Arrangement
- Game Over — Music & Arrangement
SDI (Master System Version)
- Demo — Music & Arrangement
- Game Start — Music & Arrangement
- System Down — Arrangement
- Perfect — Arrangement
- We Are Desirous of Peace — Arrangement
- Blue Moon — Arrangement
After Burner (Master System Version)
- Maximum Power — Arrangement
- Final Take Off — Arrangement
- Red Out — Arrangement
- Super Stripe — Arrangement
- After Burner — Arrangement
- City 202 — Arrangement
Phantasy Star
- Title — Music & Arrangement
- Opening — Music & Arrangement
- Town — Music & Arrangement
- Dungeon 1 — Music & Arrangement
- Palma — Music & Arrangement
- Battle — Music & Arrangement
- Sun — Music & Arrangement
- Shop — Music & Arrangement
- Land Master — Music & Arrangement
- Motavia — Music & Arrangement
- Church — Music & Arrangement
- Dezoris — Music & Arrangement
- Event — Music & Arrangement
- Dungeon 2 — Music & Arrangement
- Lassic — Music & Arrangement
- Sky City — Music & Arrangement
- Dark Force — Music & Arrangement
- Ending — Music & Arrangement
- Staff Roll (Dungeon 2 Reprise) — Music & Arrangement
- Game Over — Music & Arrangement
Space Harrier II
- Motion — Music & Arrangement
- Harrier Saga — Music & Arrangement
- Nuclear Shock — Music & Arrangement
- Mind Quake — Music & Arrangement
- Neo — Music & Arrangement
- Giga — Music & Arrangement
- Winner's Flight — Music & Arrangement
- The Stairs to Z — Music & Arrangement
- Handcuff — Music & Arrangement
- Perspective — Music & Arrangement
- Machine Henge — Music & Arrangement
- Jelly Syndrome — Music & Arrangement
- Outsider — Music & Arrangement
- An Omen — Music & Arrangement
- Mega Chance — Music & Arrangement
- Reverse Infect — Music & Arrangement
- An Epitaph — Music & Arrangement
- Illusion — Music & Arrangement
- A — Music & Arrangement
- Name Entry — Music & Arrangement
Phantasy Star II
- Phantasy Sprite — Music & Arrangement
- Step Up — Music & Arrangement
- A Prologue — Music & Arrangement
- Pleasure Stream — Music & Arrangement
- Pressure — Music & Arrangement
- My Home — Music & Arrangement
- Blacky News — Music & Arrangement
- Restration — Music & Arrangement
- Rise or Fall — Music & Arrangement
- Movement — Music & Arrangement
- Advanced Position — Music & Arrangement
- Secret Ways — Music & Arrangement
- Promised Mystery — Music & Arrangement
- Hidepipe — Music & Arrangement
- Silent Zone — Music & Arrangement
- Musik — Music & Arrangement
- Exciting Town — Music & Arrangement
- Violation — Music & Arrangement
- Power — Music & Arrangement
- Under — Music & Arrangement
- The Place of Death — Music & Arrangement
- Exclaim — Music & Arrangement
- Never Dreaming — Music & Arrangement
- Over — Music & Arrangement
Super Daisenryaku (Mega Drive Version)
- Title — Music & Arrangement
- Prot It — Music & Arrangement
- A Bottom — Music & Arrangement
- Spirits — Music & Arrangement
- Splend — Music & Arrangement
- Out All — Music & Arrangement
- Ahead — Music & Arrangement
- Fire — Music & Arrangement
- Surrender — Music & Arrangement
- Ending — Music & Arrangement
- Extra — Music & Arrangement
Phantasy Star II (Overseas)
- Phantasy — Music & Arrangement
- Step Up — Music & Arrangement
- A Prologue — Music & Arrangement
- Pleasure — Music & Arrangement
- Pressure — Music & Arrangement
- My Home — Music & Arrangement
- Blacky News — Music & Arrangement
- Restration — Music & Arrangement
- Rise or Fall — Music & Arrangement
- Movement — Music & Arrangement
- Advanced — Music & Arrangement
- Secret Ways — Music & Arrangement
- Mystery — Music & Arrangement
- Silent Zone — Music & Arrangement
- Excite Town — Music & Arrangement
- Violation — Music & Arrangement
- Power — Music & Arrangement
- Noah — Music & Arrangement
- Death of Place — Music & Arrangement
- Exclaim — Music & Arrangement
- Never Dream — Music & Arrangement
- Over — Music & Arrangement
Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf
- Title — Music & Arrangement
- Select — Music & Arrangement
- BGM 1 — Music & Arrangement
- BGM 2 — Music & Arrangement
- BGM 3 — Music & Arrangement
- BGM 4 — Music & Arrangement
- Birdie — Music & Arrangement
- Par — Music & Arrangement
- Bogey — Music & Arrangement
- Out of Bounds — Music & Arrangement
- Score Display — Music & Arrangement
- Coffee Break — Music & Arrangement
- Awards Ceremony — Music & Arrangement
- Ending — Music & Arrangement
- Game Over — Music & Arrangement
Sorcerian (Mega Drive Version)
- On Earth — Music & Arrangement
- In the Sky — Music & Arrangement
- Earthwind — Music & Arrangement
- Ice Dungeon — Music & Arrangement
- Ice Dragon — Music & Arrangement
- Twin Islands — Music & Arrangement
- Windy Cave — Music & Arrangement
- High Minotaur — Music & Arrangement
- Melody I — Music & Arrangement
- Melody II — Music & Arrangement
- Fairy's Harp — Music & Arrangement
- Human World — Music & Arrangement
- Marionette's World — Music & Arrangement
- King of Marionette — Music & Arrangement
- Behind the Marionette — Music & Arrangement
- Eerie Village — Music & Arrangement
- Underground Dungeon — Music & Arrangement
- Fire Dragon — Music & Arrangement
Columns (Arcade version)
- Coin — Music & Arrangement
- Filthy (Select) — Music & Arrangement
- Quagmire (Start/Unused Tune) — Music & Arrangement
- Clotho (Theme) — Music & Arrangement
- Conciliation (Game Over) — Music & Arrangement
- Boy Wonder (Name Entry) — Music & Arrangement
- Arabian Jewelry (U.S.A. Version) — Music & Arrangement
Columns (Mega Drive Version)
- Lathesis (Theme 2) — Music & Arrangement
- Atropos (Theme 3) — Music & Arrangement
Super Monaco GP (Mega Drive Version)
- F1 Grand Prix — Arrangement
- Exhaust Fumes — Music & Arrangement
- Extreme Tension — Arrangement
- Qualify — Arrangement
- A Break — Arrangement
- The Checker Flag — Arrangement
- Super License — Arrangement
- The Heat Waves — Arrangement
- At a Loss — Arrangement
- Concentration — Music & Arrangement
- Contentment — Music & Arrangement
- Hold in Check — Music & Arrangement
- Impatience — Music & Arrangement
- The Bitterness — Music & Arrangement
- Theme of Monaco — Arrangement
Columns (Game Gear Version)
- Filthy (Select) — Music & Arrangement
- Quagmire (Start/Unused Tune) — Music & Arrangement
- Clotho (Theme 1) — Music & Arrangement
- Lathesis (Theme 2) — Music & Arrangement
- Atropos (Theme 3) — Music & Arrangement
- Conciliation (Game Over) — Music & Arrangement
- Boy Wonder (Name Entry) — Music & Arrangement
Magazine articles
- Main article: Tokuhiko Uwabo/Magazine articles.
Photographs
- Main article: Photos of Tokuhiko Uwabo
External links
- Sega Stars: Tokuhiko "Bo" Uwabo article by Ken Horowitz at Sega-16
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 https://www.facebook.com/tokuhiko.uwabo/about_work_and_education
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 [ ]
- ↑ @okunari on Twitter
- ↑ https://media.vgm.io/albums/61/6816/6816-1225830813.jpg (Wayback Machine: 2023-06-24 10:34)
- ↑ File:SlapShooter SystemE rankinglist.png
- ↑ File:Fantasy Zone SMS credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Great Golf 1987 SMS, Standings.png
- ↑ File:Phantasy Star SMS credits.pdf
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 File:Space Harrier II MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Phantasy Star II MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Super Daisenryaku MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Ozaki Naomichi no Super Masters MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Revenge of Shinobi MD credits.pdf
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 File:Sorcerian MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:ESWAT MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Super Monaco GP MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Moonwalker MD credits.pdf
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 File:16t MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Flicky MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Castle of Illusion SMS credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Battle Golfer Yui MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Castle of Illusion GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Streets of Rage MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:QuackShot MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Super Monaco GP II MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Dyna Brothers MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Bio-Hazard Battle MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Switch MCD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Panic MCD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Golden Axe III MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Phantasy Star Sennenki no Owari ni MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic & Knuckles MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:STHT_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ File:Sing Sega Game Music MCD JAP manual.pdf, page 22
- ↑ File:PS1SCA CD JP Booklet.pdf, page 8