Hiroshi Kawaguchi

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Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Place of birth: Chiba Prefecture, Japan[1]
Date of birth: 1965-04-12[2] (age 59)
Employment history:
Sega of Japan (1984[3] – 2000)
Divisions:
Hitmaker (2000 – 2004)
Sega of Japan (2004 – 2015)
Divisions:
Sega Interactive (2015 – 2020)
Divisions:
Sega Interactive R&D 1
Sega of Japan (2020 – )
Divisions:
Sega AJ5
Role(s): Composer, Musician

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Hiroshi Kawaguchi (川口 博史) is among the oldest of the Sega sound team members. He serves as the main composer for the Space Harrier and After Burner series - two of the company's most recognized brands - and has contributed music to many others, especially when it comes to racing games. His most lasting contribution to the video game industry, though, is the soundtrack to the original OutRun, whose four melodic tracks have been remade by both himself and others time and time again.

He is also known as Hiro (ヒロ) (his alias) and Hiroshi Miyauchi (宮内 博史) (his pre-mukoyōshi name) and has been a part of both the S.S.T. Band and the sound unit [H.], the latter of which he leads.

Contents

Career

Production history

Games

Videos

Music

Hardware

~Unsorted/Unspecified~

Discography

Song credits

Hang-On (Arcade version)

  • Title — Music & Arrangement
  • Main Theme — Music & Arrangement

Space Harrier (Arcade version)

  • Credit — Music & Arrangement
  • Theme — Music & Arrangement
  • Squilla — Music & Arrangement
  • Godarni — Music & Arrangement
  • Wiwi Jumbo — Music & Arrangement
  • Battle Field — Music & Arrangement
  • Syura — Music & Arrangement
  • Stanray — Music & Arrangement
  • Lake Side Memory — Music & Arrangement
  • Winner's Song — Music & Arrangement

Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars (Arcade version)

  • Coin — Music & Arrangement
  • Start — Music & Arrangement
  • BGM 1 — Music & Arrangement
  • Clear — Music & Arrangement
  • BGM 2 — Music & Arrangement
  • BGM 3 — Music & Arrangement
  • BGM 4 — Music & Arrangement
  • Ziggurat Start — Music & Arrangement
  • Ending — Music & Arrangement
  • Miss — Music & Arrangement
  • Game Over — Music & Arrangement

Ghost House

  • Title — Music & Arrangement
  • Stage BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • Vampire Battle — Music & Arrangement
  • Game Over — Music & Arrangement

OutRun (Arcade version)

  • Magical Sound Shower — Music & Arrangement
  • Passing Breeze — Music & Arrangement
  • Splash Wave — Music & Arrangement
  • Last Wave — Music & Arrangement

Enduro Racer (Arcade version)

  • Coin — Music & Arrangement
  • Opening — Music & Arrangement
  • Main Theme — Music & Arrangement
  • Name Entry 1 — Music & Arrangement
  • Name Entry 2 — Music & Arrangement
  • BGM 1 — Music & Arrangement

Fantasy Zone (Arcade version)

  • Credit — Music & Arrangement
  • Start — Music & Arrangement
  • Opa-Opa! [Rd. 1] — Music & Arrangement
  • Boss [Rd. 1~7 Boss] — Music & Arrangement
  • Defeat — Music & Arrangement
  • Round Up [Round Clear] — Music & Arrangement
  • Keep on the Beat [Rd. 2] — Music & Arrangement
  • Saari [Rd. 3] — Music & Arrangement
  • Prome [Rd. 4] — Music & Arrangement
  • Hot Snow [Rd. 5] — Music & Arrangement
  • Hot Snow [Rd. 5] (Oversea) — Music & Arrangement
  • Round Up [Round Clear] (Oversea) — Music & Arrangement
  • Don't Stop [Rd. 6] — Music & Arrangement
  • Dreaming Tomorrow [Rd. 7] — Music & Arrangement
  • Ya-Da-Yo [Rd. 8 Boss] — Music & Arrangement
  • Victory Way [Ending] — Music & Arrangement
  • Miss — Music & Arrangement

After Burner (Arcade version)

  • Maximum Power — Music & Arrangement
  • Final Take Off — Music & Arrangement
  • Red Out — Music & Arrangement
  • Super Stripe — Music & Arrangement
  • After Burner — Music & Arrangement

After Burner II (Arcade version)

  • Maximum Power — Music & Arrangement
  • Final Take Off — Music & Arrangement
  • Red Out — Music & Arrangement
  • Super Stripe — Music & Arrangement
  • After Burner — Music & Arrangement
  • City 202 — Music & Arrangement

~With Melody Ver.~

  • Maximum Power — Music & Arrangement
  • Final Take Off — Music & Arrangement
  • After Burner — Music & Arrangement

Dynamite Dux (Arcade version)

  • Credit — Music & Arrangement
  • Don't Want Duck (Round 1) — Music & Arrangement
  • Ganseki Rock (Boss 1) — Music & Arrangement
  • Duck Around the Clock (Boss 2) — Music & Arrangement
  • Goose (Round Clear) — Music & Arrangement
  • Japan Achacha (Round 2) — Music & Arrangement
  • Duck of Dux (Boxing) — Music & Arrangement
  • Luck Ducky Baby (Boxing Victory) — Music & Arrangement
  • No Dux No Cry (Round 3) — Music & Arrangement
  • Darkness Dux (Round 4) — Music & Arrangement
  • But Duck What Gate (Round 5) — Music & Arrangement
  • Achacha the Castle (Round 6) — Music & Arrangement
  • Southern Lucy — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused]

Power Drift (Arcade version)

  • Credit — Music & Arrangement
  • Poker Face (Opening) — Music & Arrangement
  • Side Street (A Course) — Music & Arrangement
  • Like the Wind (B Course) — Music & Arrangement
  • Silent Language (C Course) — Music & Arrangement
  • Adjustment Mind (D Course) — Music & Arrangement
  • Artistic Traps (E Course) — Music & Arrangement
  • Diversity (Name Entry) — Music & Arrangement
  • Not Use — Music & Arrangement

Power Drift & Mega Drive -G.S.M. Sega 2-

  • Power Drift (Like the Wind Arrange Version) — Music, Keyboard (with Katsuhiro Hayashi)
  • Space Harrier II (A Legend of Harrier Arrange Version) — Keyboard (with Katsuhiro Hayashi)

Turbo OutRun (Arcade version)

  • Who are You — Music & Arrangement
  • Keep Your Heart — Music & Arrangement
  • Checker Flag — Music & Arrangement
  • Easy going — Music & Arrangement

Super Sonic Team -G.S.M. Sega 3-

  • Final Take Off (After Burner Arrange Version) — Music, Keyboard (with Kimitaka Matsumae)
  • Splash Wave (OutRun Arrange Version) — Music, Keyboard (with Kimitaka Matsumae)
  • Theme from Super Monaco GP (Arrange Version) — Music

Mega Selection -G.S.M. Sega-

Sword of Vermilion

  • Title — Music & Arrangement
  • Name Entry — Music & Arrangement
  • Opening — Music & Arrangement
  • Statts — Music & Arrangement
  • Shop (Village) — Music & Arrangement
  • 3D Mode — Music & Arrangement
  • Jiji Theme — Music & Arrangement
  • Erias — Music & Arrangement
  • Shop (City) — Music & Arrangement
  • Castle — Music & Arrangement
  • Dungeon — Music & Arrangement
  • Boss A — Music & Arrangement
  • Village A — Music & Arrangement
  • Light Song — Music & Arrangement
  • Dungeon 2 — Music & Arrangement
  • Player Dead — Music & Arrangement
  • Last City — Music & Arrangement
  • Ending 2 — Music & Arrangement

G-LOC: Air Battle (Arcade version)

  • Opening — Music & Arrangement
  • BGM A — Music & Arrangement
  • Continue — Music & Arrangement
  • BGM B — Music & Arrangement
  • Ravine Dogfight BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • BGM C — Music & Arrangement
  • BGM D — Music & Arrangement
  • Ground Attack BGM — Music & Arrangement
  • Last Mission — Music & Arrangement
  • Landing — Music & Arrangement
  • Congratulations — Music & Arrangement
  • Name Entry — Music & Arrangement
  • Fanfare "Hiro" — Music & Arrangement
  • Fanfare (Unused Music) — Music & Arrangement
  • Phrase (Unused Music) — Music & Arrangement

After Burner

~Arrange Version~

Hyper Drive -G.S.M. Sega 4-

~Arrange Version~

GP Rider (Arcade version)

  • Be Over (Manual) — Music & Arrangement

S.S.T. Band Live! -G.S.M. Sega-

Game Music Festival Live '90: Zuntata VS. S.S.T. Band

Game Music Festival '90 Special: Zuntata VS. S.S.T. Band

Rent a Hero

  • Only a Drama..... — Music & Arrangement
  • Fight Rent-a-Hero!! — Music & Arrangement
  • Red Light Dinner Party — Music & Arrangement
  • The End of Winter, The Vernal Equinox, The Good Feeling — Music & Arrangement
  • Town Music 2 — Music & Arrangement
  • GO GO Train — Music & Arrangement
  • Town Music 1 — Music & Arrangement
  • Surprise, Shock Cave Exploration — Music & Arrangement
  • It's Just That Oira Is Zakokyara! — Music & Arrangement
  • I Wonder If We'll Go to the Hospital? — Music & Arrangement
  • Town Music 3 — Music & Arrangement
  • Tonight I Feel Like Dancing — Music & Arrangement
  • Good Night & It's Morning Rent-a-Hero — Music & Arrangement
  • Doctor Hentai's Sorrow — Music & Arrangement
  • Incident! Rent-a-Hero — Music & Arrangement
  • Everyone, Thank You! — Music & Arrangement
  • Descendant of Rent-a-Hero — Music & Arrangement
  • Magical Sound Shower (from OutRun) — Music & Arrangement
  • BGM A (from G-LOC) — Music & Arrangement
  • After Burner (from After Burner) — Music & Arrangement
  • Main Theme (from Space Harrier) — Music & Arrangement
  • Like the Wind (from Power Drift) — Music & Arrangement
  • Rush a Difficulty (from Turbo OutRun) — Arrangement
  • Time Attack (from GP Rider) — Arrangement

OutRunners (Arcade version)

  • Magical Sound Shower (1993) — Music
  • Passing Breeze (1993) — Music
  • Splash Wave (1993) — Music
  • South America — Music & Arrangement (with Takayuki Nakamura)
  • Spain — Music & Arrangement
  • Last Wave (1993) — Music

Rail Chase The Ride: Eiyuu Fukkatsu Hen

  • Captive Princess Luna ~ Rescue Operation Start — Music & Arrangement
  • Rail Chase The Ride - Setting Off — Music & Arrangement
  • Rail Chase The Ride - Suite — Music & Arrangement
  • Luna Rescue Failure — Music & Arrangement
  • Luna Rescue Success — Music & Arrangement

Cool Riders

  • Hang on ~Theme of Love~ — Music & Arrangement

Fighters Megamix

  • Name Entry (Last Wave) — Music & Arrangement
  • Ranking (City 202) — Music & Arrangement
  • Can You Become Rent-a-Hero for Mankind's Sake? — Music & Arrangement, Programming

Sega Ages: OutRun

  • Magical Sound Shower - 1996 Arrange Ver. — Music & Arrangement, Additional Keyboard Solo (with Takenobu Mitsuyoshi)
  • Passing Breeze - 1996 Arrange Ver. — Music & Arrangement
  • Splash Wave - 1996 Arrange Ver. — Music & Arrangement
  • Last Wave - 1996 Arrange Ver. — Music & Arrangement

Sega Touring Car Championship

  • Loose Control — Music & Arrangement
  • Target — Music & Arrangement

Sega Ages: Power Drift

  • Poker Face (Super Arrange) — Music & Arrangement
  • Side Street (Super Arrange) — Music & Arrangement
  • Like the Wind (Super Arrange) — Music & Arrangement
  • Silent Language (Super Arrange) — Music & Arrangement
  • Adjustment Mind (Super Arrange) — Music & Arrangement
  • Artistic Traps (Super Arrange) — Music & Arrangement
  • Diversity (Super Arrange) — Music & Arrangement
  • Side Street (Slow Arrange) — Music & Arrangement
  • Like the Wind (Slow Arrange) — Music & Arrangement

Rent A Hero No.1

  • Can You Become Rent-a-Hero for Mankind's Sake? — Music & Arrangement, Programming
  • Red Light Dinner Party — Music & Arrangement
  • The End of Winter, The Vernal Equinox, The Good Feeling — Music & Arrangement
  • Give a cure — Music & Arrangement
  • GO GO Train — Music & Arrangement
  • Tonight I Feel Like Dancing — Music & Arrangement
  • The Doctor 53M Underground — Music & Arrangement
  • First Day at the Part-time Job — Music & Arrangement
  • When in Trouble, Cream Cast — Music & Arrangement
  • Far from Sleeping... — Music & Arrangement
  • Sofia — Music & Arrangement
  • The Bell Rings for You — Music & Arrangement
  • It's Just That Oira Is Zakokyara! — Music
  • Magical Sound Shower (Inside Game Center BGM from "OutRun") — Music
  • Opa-Opa! (Inside Game Center BGM from "Fantasy Zone") — Music
  • After Burner (Inside Game Center BGM from "After Burner") — Music
  • Descendant of Rent-a-Hero — Music & Arrangement, Performer (with Instant Band)
  • Voice ReMIX Everyone is Still Alive — Music & Arrangement

Crackin' DJ

  • code number 003 — Music & Arrangement
  • Chocolate — Music & Arrangement
  • hangover — Music & Arrangement
  • nightmare — Music & Arrangement
  • Hot It Up — Music & Arrangement
  • In Chaos — Music & Arrangement
  • Rumble Storm — Music & Arrangement
  • OutRun (Bonus Tune ~ Ending) — Music
  • code number 003 (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
  • chocolate (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
  • hangover (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
  • nightmare (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
  • hot it up (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
  • in chaos (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
  • rumble storm (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
  • OutRun (scratching) — Music

Crackin' DJ Part 2

  • Thanks for Nothing — Music & Arrangement
  • Nightmare (dub) — Music & Arrangement
  • Sun Dance — Music & Arrangement
  • Sleeper — Music & Arrangement
  • Strained Relations — Music & Arrangement
  • Beat of Mind — Music & Arrangement
  • Seven O'clock — Music & Arrangement

Sega Ages Sound Track The Best Plus

  • After Burner (H. Live Version) — Music, Keyboard & Computer Manipulated [NOTE: Performance from 42nd Amusement Machine Show on 9 Sep. 2004]

Derby Owners Club Online

  • happy market — Music & Arrangement
  • Jingle Bells — Arrangement

OutRun 2 Sound Tracks -Side B-

  • Last Wave - Vocal Version — Music & Arrangement

Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 21: SDI & Quartet ~Sega System 16 Collection~

  • Quartet Medley 2005 — Keyboard

Sega Rally 2006

  • Verges on the edge — Music & Arrangement
  • Upside Down — Music & Arrangement
  • Flying Man — Music & Arrangement
  • Rumble along — Music & Arrangement

OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast

  • Radiation — Music & Arrangement, Additional Keyboard Solo (with Takenobu Mitsuyoshi)
  • Who are You 2006 Arrange Ver. — Music & Arrangement
  • Keep Your Heart 2006 Arrange Ver. — Music & Arrangement

After Burner Climax

  • After Burner - Climax Remix - — Music & Arrangement
  • After Burner - Climax Remix Full - — Music & Arrangement

OutRun 2 SP (PS2 version)

  • Passing Breeze [H.] Arrange Ver. — Music, Piano Solo

Super Hang-On 20th Anniversary Collection

  • Hang-On ~Theme of Love~ -[H.] Arrange Ver.- — Music, Arrangement and Sound Produce, Keyboard, Programming

Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 30: Galaxy Force II Special Extended Edition

  • Beyond The Galaxy -[H.] Arrange Ver.- — Sound Producer, Keyboard Solo

After Burner 20th Anniversary Box

  • After Burner 20th Anniversary Medley [H.] Arrange Version — Music & Arrangement, Keyboard & Computer Manipulated

Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 33: Fantasy Zone Complete Collection

  • Fantasy Zone Medley 2008 Version — Music, Keyboard

Vermilion vs Rent A Hero Original Soundtrack

Bayonetta

  • Magnificent 7 (∞ Climax Mix) — Music & Arrangement
  • Space Harrier (∞ Climax Mix) — Music & Arrangement
  • Wiwi Jumbo (Heaven Sent Mix) — Music & Arrangement

Tetris Giant

  • Love's Invincible Command — Music & Arrangement
  • Fate Is "I" Love You — Music & Arrangement
  • Friendship Try again! — Music & Arrangement
  • It's Difficult, But I Love You ~Dekaris~ — Music & Arrangement

Crackin' DJ Complete Album

  • Thanks for Nothing (Prototype) — Music & Arrangement
  • hangover (Prototype) — Music & Arrangement
  • Sleeper (Prototype) — Music & Arrangement
  • Rumble Storm (Prototype) — Music & Arrangement

Power Drift Original Soundtrack

  • Side Street (Prototype) — Music & Arrangement
  • Silent Language 2011 (Special Arrange) — Music & Arrangement

Sega Sound Unit [H.] 1st Album

  • [H.] Band Introduction Kensaku Mad Version — Music & Arrangement
  • Moba Tte Ma Suka~ (^o^)丿 - Hiro Remix Ver. - — Remixed by
  • Answer Answer — Arrangement

maimai

  • Baban! Sweet Trap — Music & Arrangement
  • Baban! Sweet Trap (long Ver.) — Music & Arrangement
  • Orange Summer — Music & Arrangement
  • Orange Summer (long Ver.) — Music & Arrangement
  • Like the Wind [Reborn] — Music
  • Space Harrier Main Theme [Reborn] — Music
  • Urban Crusher [Remix] — Arrangement
  • Sega Saturn Startup Sound [H.] [Remix] — Arrangement
  • Nakimushi O'clock — Music & Arrangement
  • Nakimushi O'clock (Full Ver.) — Music & Arrangement
  • Pipi papu! — Music & Arrangement
  • Pipi papu! (Full Ver.) — Music & Arrangement

maimai GreeN PLUS

  • Fantasy Zone Opa-Opa! -GMT remix- — Music & Arrangement

Hiro 30th Anniversary Album / Thank you for listening!

  • Main BGM — Music
  • Magical Sound Shower — Music
  • After Burner — Music
  • Don't Want Duck — Music
  • Last City — Music
  • Can You Become Rent-a-Hero for Mankind's Sake? — Music
  • Target — Music
  • sleeper — Music
  • Fate Is "I" Love You — Music
  • VERTeX — Music & Arrangement

Chain Chronicle Original Soundtrack CHAIN Band Ver.

  • Battle for Justice [Chain Band Version] — Keyboard
  • Battle for Justice II [Chain Band Version] — Keyboard
  • Beat the Master II [Chain Band Version] — Keyboard

Chain Chronicle Original Soundtrack CHAIN Band Ver. II

  • The Duel Tempest [Chain Band Version] — Keyboard
  • Battle & Vanquish [Chain Band Version] — Keyboard

Magazine articles

Main article: Hiroshi Kawaguchi/Magazine articles.

Interviews

Photographs

Main article: Photos of Hiroshi Kawaguchi

External links

References

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  11. File:Fantasy Zone SMS credits.pdf
  12. File:DynamiteDux arcade credits.pdf
  13. 13.0 13.1 File:Rent A Hero MD credits.pdf
  14. File:VirtuaF2 Saturn JP SSEnding.pdf
  15. File:AgesOutrun_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
  16. File:Die Hard Arcade Saturn credits.pdf
  17. File:Sega Ages Fantasy Zone Saturn credits.pdf
  18. 18.0 18.1 File:Sega Touring Car Championship Saturn credits.pdf
  19. File:Sega Ages Power Drift Saturn credits.pdf
  20. File:STCC PC US Manual.pdf, page 37
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