Top Ten Best Video Game Composers

The Top Ten
1 Graeme Norgate

Behind brilliant pieces from Killer Instinct, and the Timesplitter series very underrated.

2 Bobby Prince

Made great music for Doom.

3 Hideki Naganuma
4 Marty O'Donnell
5 Lee Jackson

Lee Jackson and Bobby Prince are my favorite composers for the old school FPSs, their music is still really good today.

6 Koji Kondo
7 Mick Gordon

Can someone create violence through music, just music? This man can. The only way to define Mick Gordon's compositions is that they do not compliments something, that something compliments them. He puts life in every instrument he uses and mind it, this guy is really versatile with his work. His work has become iconic and once you hear it, it's really impossible to miss him out.

8 Nobuo Uematsu Nobuo Uematsu is a Japanese video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series.
9 Yuzo Koshiro

This man's legendary music is what lays the foundation of the Streets of Rage video game series. This man is way ahead of his time and will always be a legend!

10 Masato Nakamura Masato Nakamura is a Japanese musician, bass guitarist, and record producer for the J-pop band Dreams Come True.
The Contenders
11 Richard Jacques
12 Jun Ishikawa Jun Ishikawa is a Japanese composer primarily known for his work in video game music. He is most famous for his contributions to the "Kirby" series, developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo. Ishikawa's compositions are characterized by their catchy melodies and intricate arrangements, making them memorable to gamers. His work has earned him acclaim in the video game industry and has been... read more
13 Jun Senoue
14 Tomoya Ohtani
15 Naofumi Hataya
16 Teruhiko Nakagawa
17 Akira Yamaoka
18 Yoko Shimomura

Composes for all of the Kingdom Hearts and Mario & Luigi games.

19 David Wise
20 Stewart Copeland Stewart Armstrong Copeland is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer best known as the drummer for the English-American rock band The Police and for his film and video game soundtracks.
21 Asuka Hayazaki
22 Kyle Richards

There are not a lot of people who know the name Kyle Richards, but his music work includes MOD format songs that are absolutely perfect for action-packed sci-fi jet shooters. And the music Kyle has done worked great in the following games:

Terminal Velocity
Fury3 (and its expansion pack F!Zone)
Hellbender

Two of those are Microsoft games while the first one (Terminal Velocity) is by 3D Realms. Standout music tracks from Kyle include:
Tame, Back, Desert, Repo, Jest, Broke from Terminal Velocity
Fog, Mine, Waves, Into the Fray, Ground9 from Fury3
Rage from Hellbender

23 Tim Follin

Has composed limit pushing soundtracks for otherwise forgettable games during the 8 bit and 16 bit era or gaming, such as Silver Surfer, Solstice, Pictionary, Plok, Time Trax, etc. He and his brother Geoff Follin are some of the most underrated video game composers in existence, and their soundtracks are more memorable than the games themselves.

24 Soyo Oka
25 Kinuyo Yamashita
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