is a Japanese

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musician and

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. He has composed the following scores for arcade games: *''

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Tiger-Heli is a vertically scrolling shooter game developed by Toaplan and released for arcades in 1985. It was published in Japan by Taito and in North America by Romstar. Controlling the titular attack helicopter, the player must fight endless waves of ...

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Zero Wing is a 1989 side-scrolling shooter arcade video game developed by Toaplan and originally published in Japan by Namco and in North America by Williams Electronics. Controlling the ZIG space fighter craft, players assume the role of protagonist Tr ...

'' (with Toshiaki Tomisawa and Masahiro Yuge) After

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closed in 1994, Uemura joined the Toaplan offshoot company Gazelle, and served as director of the 1996 shooter ''

Air Gallet ''Air Gallet'' is a 1996 vertical-scrolling shooter arcade game published by Banpresto. Players control a fighter jet through six levels to destroy a terrorist organization, who are destroying major worldwide cities and brainwashing the world's po ...

'' (''Akuu Gallet''; distributed by

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). In 1999, he worked for

8ing/Raizing , stylized as 8ing, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was formerly known as . It is known for its shoot 'em ups and its licensed fighting games. History Raizing and Eighting were formed in part by former staff of Compile, ...

as a programmer for the shooter ''

Battle Bakraid is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game by Eighting released in 1999. It is the spiritual successor (sometimes incorrectly thought of as a sequel) to the 1996 arcade game ''Battle Garegga''. Players control one of nine fighter jets a ...

'' (a follow-up to 1996's ''

Battle Garegga is a vertically scrolling shoot'em up arcade game developed by Raizing and published by Eighting in 1996. It was later ported to the Sega Saturn in 1998, and an updated version, ''Battle Garegga Rev.2016'' was released in 2016. It was followed b ...

''). In 2000, his music for ''

'' was sampled by the band,

The Laziest Men on Mars The Laziest Men on Mars was an American techno band known for their successful gabber song "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" which remixed some of the Zero Wing video game music by Tatsuya Uemura, which became background music to the popular "All yo ...

, and resulted in "

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", an

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that was popular in the early 2000s.

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1960 births Japanese composers Japanese male composers Japanese male musicians Living people Musicians from Hyōgo Prefecture Video game composers {{videogame-musician-stub