{"id":1507,"date":"2025-08-04T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:51:57","slug":"tetris-metroid-composer-hip-tanaka-is-getting-back-into-video-game-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/tetris-metroid-composer-hip-tanaka-is-getting-back-into-video-game-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetris &amp; Metroid Composer &#039;Hip&#039; Tanaka Is Getting Back Into Video Game Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>And he&#8217;d love to make another soundtrack, &#8220;if asked&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those lovely folks over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/legendary-nintendo-composer-hip-tanaka-says-hed-love-to-make-another-full-game-soundtrack-if-asked\/\">VGC<\/a> spoke to the one and only Hirokazu Tanaka \u2014 better known as &#8216;Hip&#8217; or &#8216;Chip&#8217; Tanaka \u2014 at Bitsummit&#8217;s Indie Game Event in Kyoto last month and, it seems, the main man may well be up for making some sweet new music, if somebody asks. Would somebody just let him make some new music quickly, please, for crying out loud!<\/p>\n<p>Tanaka, who you might know as the composer behind soundtracks for the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/super_mario_land\">Super Mario Land<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/metroid\">Metroid<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/kid_icarus\">Kid Icarus<\/a> and the Game Boy version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/tetris\">Tetris<\/a>, to name just a few things he&#8217;s got on the old CV. He worked on the soundtracks for both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/mother_3\">Mother<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/earthbound\">EarthBound<\/a>. Oh, and he also played a key role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/poca-is-a-game-boy-camera-photobook-adventure-and-a-heartfelt-homage-to-hip-tanaka\">creating and designing the Game Boy<\/a>. So, yeah, he&#8217;s kind of a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/tetris-and-metroid-composer-hip-tanaka-is-getting-back-into-video-game-music\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And he&#8217;d love to make another soundtrack, &#8220;if asked&#8221;. Those lovely folks over at VGC spoke to the one and only Hirokazu Tanaka \u2014 better known as &#8216;Hip&#8217; or &#8216;Chip&#8217; Tanaka \u2014 at Bitsummit&#8217;s Indie Game Event in Kyoto last month and, it seems, the main man may well be up for making some sweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}