Tokuhiko Uwabo (#1463)

[kyubihanyou]

Bobobo-Bobo-Bobo (I can't tell you how long I've been keeping that back)

http://www.smspower.org/People/TokuhikoUwabo
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/s...loperId,68088/

I still think his role in Sonic 3 was an advisory one, though. Sachio Ogawa has a greater chance than him to have done something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVwODpvCJGg - Is that Hydrocity Zone Act 2 I hear?

[Revoc]

I found this Facebook account with the same kanji name and hiragana reading of the legendary Bo. However, I couldn’t confirm if it’s the same person. The only clue I found: since 2007 he is employed at Winlight as one of the directors.

[dissident93]

Originally Posted by Revoc

I found this Facebook account with the same kanji name and hiragana reading of the legendary Bo. However, I couldn’t confirm if it’s the same person. The only clue I found: since 2007 he is employed at Winlight as one of the directors.

This is the legendary BO. He confirmed it to me.

[Revoc]

Amazing! Thanks for the confirmation.

[dissident93]

Sure. =D

I'm trying to get information out of him, since he was apart of the enigmatic Sonic 3 music team.

He has confirmed to me that he did no musical work, instead, he simply assigned all the composers and took on an advisory role for Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

More info coming soon.



P.S. Where you simply searching for composers on Facebook, and came across him? I wonder how many others we could find, if we looked hard enough.

[Secret Squirrel]

Just thought I'd check, but the birth date and place came from your conversation with him?

[dissident93]

From his Facebook info. :P

[dissident93]

Semi-relavent to Uwabo, but who is Kamiya Studio?

Uwabo produced two games composed by Kamiya Studio, (Castle of Illusion and Quackshot) and this is all I could find related to them.

[VRC-7]

Kamiya Studio was behind the Odyssey-K sound tool for the MSX.

[dissident93]

Uwabo said they were a company that did alot of work with Roland and developed MIDI sequencer software and tone editors. I wonder who actually composed the games Kamiya is credited for?

[dissident93]

Update: Apparently Shigenori Kamiya was the guy responsible for the music for games credited under Kamiya Studio.

[The Gambler]

Among my favorite Genesis soundtracks are the two Disney platformers, Castle of Illusion and Quackshot. Did Bo composed these fully, partly, or was he just involved as a producer?

Also did these games ever receive official OSTs?

[dissident93]

Uwabo only acted as sound producer/director for those. As far as I know, both games were composed by Shigenori Kamiya of Kamiya Studio, but I can't say for sure if that studio had other composers.

[CHz]

I'm creeping on people on Facebook and Masaya Imoto includes a "Kamiya Studio" in his work history. Says he was a composer/engineer from 1992 to 1994.

[Brad Evans II]

Silly question. I just got the Phantasy Star II LP and yeah, despite never having played the game myself (I have watched a playthrough on YouTube; I can see why the game was a big deal when it was released) it is an amazing score, but I can't help be surprised that his discography seems so short. Did Tokuhiko Uwabo just not score a lot of games, or has most of his work just not been released on physical media? Did he just work in the industry in other capacities after a certain point? I don't say this to be snide, but I'm just generally curious - I'd just think his works page would be larger than it is.

Edit:

Nevermind. Was just looking at the page under the alias of "Bo". Sry, I see when you click on his full name you get a lot more info.