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Old Jan 13, 2022, 07:56 PM
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It's still a bit odd that they credited this to Minako Hamano and Kozue Ishikawa. The corresponding track on the Nippon Columbia album (disc 4 track 20) is credited to Kazumi Totaka and Hamano there. And they couldn't have surmised it from the Game Boy credits alone as all three of them are listed as "sound composers".

The only way they could've gotten Hamano and Ishikawa here would be going by the Japanese Game Boy version guide book where the two explicitly mentioned they were in charge of the BGM while Totaka said he did the SFX. If that's where the booklet editors got the credits from, then they really did their homework with the sources available to them at the time.

The thing is, this is the first album to reveal Akito Nakatsuka as composer of Zelda 2. The game only credited him under the pseudonym "Tsukasan" and his name didn't appear on any album before. So the booklet editors must've had an in with Nintendo's sound team. Or they really, really did their homework. Though unlikely, we can't rule out the possibility that Nakatsuka's name was mentioned and connected to Zelda 2 in a Japanese magazine sometime before.

It's easy to forget how little we knew about game music albums and composers before sites like Chudah's Corner popped up.
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