Following roles on Nemesis and Nama Baseball ‘68, he participated on X-Men: The Arcade Game in 1992. Takenouchi worked on a range of projects for Konami’s arcade division after development for the MSX ceased. He also participated in several large collaborative projects, notably contributing the last boss theme to SD Snatcher, the game over music for Metal Gear 2, and, at urgent request, some additional stage music for Quarth, gradually emerging as an experienced game sound creator. He was so proud to achieve such impressive sound quality on the project – using the SCC chip that he helped develop – that he went as far to buy the title’s official soundtrack six or seven time. Following his debut, he served as sound producer for the shooter Space Manbow, writing the ending theme among other pieces. In each case, he generally composed using a Roland MC-500 sequencer before entering the music data into in-house tools using hexadecimal coding.

On his debut Pennant Race 2, henevertheless persevered to compose a range of music alongside several others in the MSX Room. Takenouchi found his initial years at Konami highly challenging due to his lack of formal musical knowledge. While he was glad to be accepted, he was disappointed that he was assigned to create sound for the MSX rather than the NES. Given his passion for both video games and their music, he didn’t resist the opportunity to apply in 1989.

After graduating, he began studying at technical school and subsequently noticed a job opportunity at the sound team of Konami. During these days, he also enjoyed playing The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Kid Icarus on the NES and ended up recorded their music for his own listening pleasure. During high school, he attempted to recreate the Yellow Magic Orchestra sound using his first synthesizer, and then started to develop his own sound over several years. Born on Februin Kyoto, Takenouchi enjoyed music from an early age despite never being formally educated in the area. Yuji Takenouchi, better known as TECHNOuchi, is a sound director at FromSoftware and the founder of the sound alliance GE-ON-DAN. Technouchi / Yuji TECHNOuchi / Yuuji Takenouchi / DJ Oniwasoto

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