as shared by Namco alum Norio Nakagata on facebook: Nobuyuki Ohnogi, the composer & sound designer whose sound defined many of Namco's golden era arcade games, including Galaga, Mappy and Pole Position, passed away last night, November 11, 2019.
R.I.P.
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Nobuyuki Ohnogi's Namco works
Rally-X (AC, hi score BGM)
New Rally-X (AC)
Warp&Warp (AC)
Galaga (AC&FC)
Bosconian (AC)
Pole Position (AC)
Mappy (AC&FC)
Pole Position II (AC)
Libble Rabble (AC)
Metro Cross (AC)
Warpman (FC)
Tower of Druaga (FC)
Battle City (FC)
Hopping Mappy (AC)
Rally-X (AC, hi score BGM)
New Rally-X (AC)
Warp&Warp (AC)
Galaga (AC&FC)
Bosconian (AC)
Pole Position (AC)
Mappy (AC&FC)
Pole Position II (AC)
Libble Rabble (AC)
Metro Cross (AC)
Warpman (FC)
Tower of Druaga (FC)
Battle City (FC)
Hopping Mappy (AC)
he left Namco in '85 & was a founding member of Masanobu Endou's Game Studio, where he assisted on several games published by Namco and others, including the Family Circuit series, the Wizardry FC trilogy, Quest of Ki and Mobile Suit Gundam Z: Hot Scramble
Ohnogi was also one of the early pioneers in game soundtrack releases; while at Namco, he supervised Japan's first commercial VGM release, Video Game Music (April '84), and through Game Studio became one of the founders of Scitron & Art, one of Japan's earliest VGM-focused labels
Ohnogi retired from the game industry in the mid-'90s to take over his family's miso business but he did recently contribute a track to Norio Nakagata's doujin Mega Drive game 16-bit Rhythm Land, released early this year columbuscircle.co.jp/products/?id=1…🇯🇵
a somewhat recent photo of Ohnogi-san, taken during a somewhat impromptu meetup with some other Mappy developers at the Dengeki Game Music Legend event held in 2017—from right to left, Nobuyuki Ohnogi, artist Hiroshi "Mr.Dotman" Ono & planner Hideharu Sato
quick addendum for anyone writing this up, certain close friends went public with news of Ohnogi-san's passing today but he's actually been gone since August
up on @retronauts, an obituary to Nobuyuki Ohnogi, Namco's first dedicated sound designer and a talented composer whose work defined era of arcade sound and helped reshape the mainstream perception of video game music retronauts.com/article/1373/n…
@retronauts btw, if you were too young to live through Ohnogi's era, you might recognise his tunes from Smash—Galaga, Mappy, Libble Rabble, Metro Cross & most of Namco Medley #1 are all his
he was far from the only talented game composer of his day but he set the path everyone followed
he was far from the only talented game composer of his day but he set the path everyone followed
