Tadashi Ikegami
Tadashi Ikegami (池上正 Ikegami Tadashi, born February 15, 1968) is a Japanese video game composer who works for HAL Laboratory. Ikegami is one of HAL Laboratory's veteran composers, along with Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando, who have worked on the Kirby series. After being involved in in Kirby's Epic Yarn, he has been primarily in a management position; he is credited in the "special thanks" section of most modern Kirby games. He also plays saxophone, though he usually only does so in bonus arrangements outside of the games.
List of works
Kirby series
- Kirby's Pinball Land [1]
- Kirby's Dream Land 2 (with Hirokazu Ando)
- Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (with Shogo Sakai, Jun Ishikawa, and Hirokazu Ando)
- Kirby Air Ride (with Hirokazu Ando, Shogo Sakai, and Jun Ishikawa)
- Kirby: Canvas Curse (with Jun Ishikawa)
- Kirby: Squeak Squad (with Hirokazu Ando, Jun Ishikawa, and Shogo Sakai)
- Kirby's Epic Yarn (with Tomoya Tomita, Jun Ishikawa, and Hirokazu Ando)
- Kirby's Return to Dream Land (special thanks)
- Kirby: Planet Robobot (special thanks)
- Kirby Star Allies (special thanks)
- Super Kirby Clash ("Green Tree Memories from Kirby")
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land ("Welcome to the New World!")
- Kirby's Dream Buffet (special thanks)
Kirby albums
- Kirby Ultra Super Deluxe Original Sound Track (with Hirokazu Ando and Jun Ishikawa: arrangement and saxophone/EWI for "Stage Medley / Acoustic ver.")
- Kirby 30th Anniversary Music Festival (saxophone for "King Dedede Medley")
Other selected works
- Wario's Woods (SNES) (with Hiroaki Suga)
- Wario's Woods (NES, PAL only) (with Shinobu Amayake, Soyo Oka, and Hiroaki Suga)
- Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No. 1
- Sim City 64[2]
- Pokémon Snap (sound design)
- Super Smash Bros. Melee (with Hirokazu Ando, Shogo Sakai, and Takuto Kitsuta)
- BOXBOY! (special thanks)
Song credits
The following are all Kirby songs Tadashi Ikegami has been credited for being in charge of:
Kirby's Pinball Land
(all music)
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Kirby's Dream Land 2
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Kirby Air Ride
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Kirby Ultra Super Deluxe Original Sound Track
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Super Kirby Clash
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Kirby and the Forgotten Land
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Trivia
- In Kirby's Dream Buffet, Tadashi Ikegami is represented with indigo notes when music is playing.