Kenji Yamamoto (Nintendo musician)

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Kenji Yamamoto (山本健誌 Yamamoto Kenji) is a Japanese video game musician working for Nintendo. He was born on April 25, 1964. It was also recently explained that he plays a role as a Music Director at Nintendo, overseeing the audio for a variety of Nintendo titles. He is credited with creating the soundtracks of the following games:

Advance Wars: Dual Strike (with Yoshito Hirano)
Excite Truck (with Masaru Tajima)
Famicom Tantei Club: Kieta Kōkeisha

Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shōjo
Galactic Pinball
Famicom Bunko: Hajimari no Mori
Mario Kart Super Circuit (sound support)
Metroid Fusion (as sound designer)
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime Hunters (as sound supervisor)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (with Minako Hamano and Masaru Tajima)
Metroid: Zero Mission (with Minako Hamano)
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival (sound support)
Super Metroid (with Minako Hamano)

Also, Kenji Yamamoto contributed with other video game composers for Super Smash Bros. Brawl.^{[citation needed]}

In a recent interview with Music4Games (his first with an English-speaking media outlet), Yamamoto detailed his expeience working on the Metroid Prime trilogy. He described his thoughts on the inclusion of themes from Super Metroid as well as his composition process and sources of inspiration. He fully intends to continue working on the Metroid series into the future.