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Hirokazu Tanaka (田中 宏和) is a video game music composer who composed the soundtracks of many early games for Nintendo under the name Hip Tanaka, but has been largely inactive in game music since the mid-1990s. He is currently the president of Creatures Inc., which makes the Pokémon trading card game. He has also composed much of the in-show soundtrack for the Pokémon anime series.

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Anime Music

• Pokémon (1998): Only some of the in-show music. Not the main theme songs.

Video Game Music

• Balloon Fight (1984)
• Balloon Kid (1990)
• Duck Hunt (1984, along with Koji Kondo)
• Dr Mario (1990): "Fever" was the basis of a priceless parody song.
  • Samples: Chill, Fever.
• EarthBound (1994, along with Keiichi Suzuki)
• Famicom Wars (1988)
• Fire Emblem Akaneia (1990)
• Game Boy Camera (1998)
• Gyromite (1985)
• Hogans Alley (1984)
• Kid Icarus (1986)
  • Samples: Sky Palace, Underworld.
• Mario Paint (1992, along with Kazumi Totaka and Ryoji Yoshitomi)
• Metroid (1986): This game wouldn't have been nearly as Nightmare Fuelish as it had been without the haunting (at times dissonant) soundtrack.
  • Samples: Brinstar, End Credits, Escape, Norfair, Title.
• Mother (1989, along with Ritsuo Kamimura, Akio Ohmori and Keiichi Suzuki)
• Stack Up (1985)
• Super Mario Land (1989)
  • Samples: Birabuto, Chai.
• Super Smash Bros Brawl (2008, along with many others)
• Tetris (1989): Arrangements of Russian folk songs. Yes, it's all his fault.
  • Samples: A-Type, B-Type.
• Urban Champion (1984)
• Wild Gunman (1984)
• Wrecking Crew (1985)
  • Samples: Theme.

Other Music

• "Tanaka Hirokazu no Uta" (2009)! And again with English subtitles.

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Tommy Tallarico

Composers

Nobuo Uematsu