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Yukio Kaneoka is a sound engineer who worked at Nintendo, mostly known for composing much of the music and sound effects on many of the early titles of the company on the Famicom and arcade systems.

History[]

Kaneoka was one of the earliest sound designers known to have worked at Nintendo. He was employed in the R&D2 department and was tasked with providing the basic fanfares of most arcade titles and some early Famicom games, like Donkey Kong and Mario Bros.

Notoriously, Kaneoka could also be considered as the creator of the distinctive "NES sound", as he is patented with the design of the audio processing unit of the Famicom, which allowed the console to produce sounds with three programmable channels (two pulse and one triangle wave), plus a noise channel and a sample channel.

Kaneoka mentored famed composers Hirokazu Tanaka and Koji Kondo upon their entrances in Nintendo, teaching them the basics of sound engineering and sound effect programming. According to Kondo, Kaneoka was a graduate in electrical engineering who "had a lot of interest in music", without having an actual educational background in music.

With 1990's F-Zero being the last game crediting him as a developer, it is unknown whether he still works at Nintendo and/or what his current occupation is, although he was credited as supervisor on Mario Tennis and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

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Yukio Kaneoka is known to have composed the entire soundtracks for the following titles:

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