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Koji Kondo (Japanese: 近藤 浩治, Hepburn: Kondō Kōji, born August 13, 1961) is a Japanese composer and senior executive at the video game company Nintendo.He is best known for his contributions for the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series, with his Super Mario Bros. theme being the first piece of music from a video game included in the American National Recording Registry.
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island [a] is a 1995 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The player controls Yoshi, a friendly dinosaur, on a quest to reunite baby Mario with his brother Luigi, who has been kidnapped by Kamek.
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Yoshi's Island is the most well-received entry, holding a critic score of 91/100 on the review aggregation website Metacritic, the highest for any Yoshi game on the site. Conversely, Yoshi's Universal Gravitation is the worst-received title, holding a critic rating of 60/100 on the same site. [58]
In 2023, the Super Mario Bros. theme was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2023 based on its "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation's recorded sound heritage." [31] [32] The theme was the first recording from a video game ever selected for preservation in the ...
Yoshi's Island DS, known in Japan as Yoshi Island DS, [a] is a 2006 platform game developed by Artoon and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It was released in North America and Australia in November 2006, in Europe in December 2006, and in Japan in March 2007. [1] It is a sequel to the 1995 SNES game, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
Yoshi's New Island [a] is a 2014 platform video game developed by Arzest and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS.First released in Europe and North America in March 2014 as the third installment in the Yoshi's Island series, Yoshi's New Island is a direct continuation of the events of the ending of the 1995 Super Nintendo Entertainment System game Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island ...
Kazumi Totaka (戸高 一生, Totaka Kazumi, born August 23, 1967) [1] is a Japanese video game composer and sound director who is best known for his various compositions in many Nintendo games. He occasionally does voice acting as well, most notably voicing Yoshi from the Mario series.