Atsuhiro Motoyama (#1887)

[Blitz Lunar]

An "Atsuhiro Yamamoto" is credited for the GameCube game Kururin Squash! -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kururin_Squash! -- considering Motoyama wrote music for the prior Kururin games on GameBoy Advance, it being the same person seems either a pretty done deal or a flaming huge coincidence.

Added Atsuhiro Yamamoto as an alias - however feel free to contest it if it's incorrect.

[CHz]

Motoyama is properly credited in the game under his Japanese name. This is just Wikipedia being Wikipedia. :V

[dissident93]

Originally Posted by CHz

This is just Wikipedia being Wikipedia. :V

siigh

I fixed it on Wikipedia, BTW.

[CHz]

I decided to search for "Kururin" and "Atsuhiro Yamamoto" for kicks, and I see the error actually originated on MobyGames, where user jotaro.raido mistranscribed the name as 山本 and then took a guess at the reading of this person who doesn't exist, because he guesses at every single name he can't find a source for. His entries are a minefield of potentially bad name readings.

So I guess I meant that this is just MobyGames being MobyGames?

[dissident93]

jotaro.raido huh? Luckily he responds to messages (and fixes errors when pointed out) so I'll let him know.

EDIT: Mobygames isn't letting me log on, so I'll have to try later...

[Blitz Lunar]

This is a great case study for how misinformation spreads ^^

[Datschge]

Originally Posted by CHz

So I guess I meant that this is just MobyGames being MobyGames?

Mobygames not linking Japanese people by their Kanji is asking for troubles like this one.

[fusoxide]

Is there any source that confirms he composed for the following games? Most of these have no credits, but MobyGames says he did the music for them - would like to find a more definitive source before adding these here. I don't know of him ever having any other online presence than his Lancers profile, which doesn't seem to list any of his past works.

• Digital Champ: Battle Boxing (credited as Ushichan, but now I'm wondering where the connection came from)
• Boomer's Adventure in ASMIK World
• Serpent
• The Adventures of Star Saver
• Snow Bros. Nick & Tom