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Kohta Takahashi
Kohta Takahashi (, usually spelt ; born October 5, 1972) is a Japanese composer. He is best known for his work on Namco games, including multiple ''Ridge Racer'' and ''Klonoa'' titles, as well as ''Ace Combat 2'' and the console version of ''Tekken 5''. Early life Takahashi grew up with a father who was the drummer of a jazz band and a mother who particularly liked classical music, which led to him growing up with a wide variety of music. As a young child, he attended a classical piano class which developed his initial understanding of music. He wrote his first composition aged 6-8, titled "Umai". He later became interested in video games and their music, where he programmed his compositions on various computers. During his high school and college years, he composed for various doujin game projects and created an album of video game music arrangements and original compositions created using a PC-88, titled ''Kohta Takahashi's Fuckin' Sounds''. Namco work (1995–2001) Origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama
is the List of cities in Japan, second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous Municipalities of Japan, municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin region, Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the Western world, West following the 1859 end of the Sakoku, policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji (era), Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Combat
''Air Combat'' is a 1995 Combat flight simulation game, combat flight simulation video game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation (console), PlayStation, and the first title of the ''Ace Combat'' franchise. Players control an aircraft and are tasked with completing a series of missions, with objectives ranging from destroying formations of enemies to protecting a specific target from enemy fire. Missions award money that is used to purchase new fighter aircraft, each with its own unique weapons and strengths. ''Air Combat'' is based on a Air Combat (arcade game), 1993 arcade game of the same name that ran on the Namco System 21 hardware. Company employees Masanori Kato and Kazumi Mizuno were tasked with bringing the game to the then-new PlayStation, but decided to create a new game from scratch after realizing the PlayStation's hardware was not powerful enough to properly render the arcade version's gameplay. ''Air Combat'' was both a critical and commercial succes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boom Boom Satellites
were a Japanese electronic music duo consisting of guitarist and vocalist Michiyuki Kawashima and bassist and programmer Masayuki Nakano. They were signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan, with whom they released all of their albums in Japan. History 1995–2014: Early career and growing popularity Kawashima and Nakano formed the band in 1990, having met at university and debuted in Europe as a rock unit in 1997. According to an interview, the name originated from a song by Sigue Sigue Sputnik. In 1995, the group's music debuted in Japan on a compilation album released by Torema Records, also affiliated with Untitled Records. Belgian record company R&S Records released their first single in Europe later that year. Kawashima and Nakano also appeared in the European magazine ''Melody Maker'', where they were lauded as the combination of The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy. R&S Records released their first album, ''7 Ignitions/Auto Re-Birth'', on April 1, 1998, and the group pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridge Racer V
is a 2000 racing video game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation 2. It was released as a launch title for the console and later followed by an arcade version subtitled ''Arcade Battle''. ''Ridge Racer V'' is the fifth main title of the ''Ridge Racer'' series following '' R4: Ridge Racer Type 4'' and the only one to be released on PlayStation 2 (excluding the spin-off '' R: Racing Evolution''). Moving away from ''Ridge Racer Type 4'''s approach, ''Ridge Racer V'' streamlined back to a simple racer without a story mode, set in fictional Ridge City based on circuits in and around the very first course introduced in ''Ridge Racer''. Its licensed soundtrack also returns to a heavier sound, including featuring Boom Boom Satellites and Mijk van Dijk alongside Namco's composer Kohta Takahashi. The game also introduced a new race queen mascot, Ai Fukami, replacing Reiko Nagase. ''Ridge Racer V'' was the highlight of PlayStation 2's original March 2000 launch. It rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridge Racer Type 4
, released without the R4''' prefix in PAL territories, is a 1998 racing video game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation. It is the fourth home title in the ''Ridge Racer'' series after ''Rage Racer'' (1996) and was initially released on December 3, 1998 in Japan, with global releases following in 1999. Maintaining the arcade-style gameplay of its predecessors, ''R4: Ridge Racer Type 4'' introduces a new Grand Prix, named ''Real Racing Roots '99'', consisting of four teams that the player may join, with associated sponsorships that can also be chosen, each offering different effects to the driving. Additionally, every team also has its own story mode, accompanied with a manager that interacts with the player during the season. The number of car models has been expanded to over three hundred. It received a highly positive reception with praise going to its presentation, art, driving, and soundtrack, though some criticism went to its cars' overly light drifting comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Door To Phantomile
''Klonoa: Door to Phantomile'' is a 1997 Platformer, platform game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation (console), PlayStation. It is the first game in the ''Klonoa'' series. The story follows Klonoa and his friend Huepow in their efforts to save the dream world of Phantomile from an evil spirit intent on turning it into a world of nightmares. The player controls Klonoa through a 2.5D perspective; the stages are rendered in three dimensions but the player moves along a 2D path. Klonoa can grab enemies and throw them as projectiles, or use them as a jump boost to navigate through the stages. The game was directed by Hideo Yoshizawa, who conceptualized the setting as a dream world that could appeal to children and adults. The Klonoa character was designed early on and the environments and other characters were designed around him. ''Door to Phantomile'' received positive reviews, being praised for its clever level design, impressive graphics and visual appeal. So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
