![]() ![]() Video game music wasn’t well respected in the ’80s, but fast-forward to today and Shimomura is one of the most well-respected video game composers in the world. “Perhaps they weren’t sure of what I was doing until now,” Shimomura tells WIRED over email. When an opportunity to join the sound team at game studio Capcom popped up, Shimomura went for it, much to her parents’ dismay. Not long after, Koichi Sugiyama’s classical score for the RPG Dragon Quest inspired her to marry her love for video games and classical music. that first piqued Shimomura’s interest in video game music. It was Koji Kondo’s infectious melodies in the original Super Mario Bros. But when she wasn’t studying or playing the piano, Shimomura was popping coins at her local arcade or stomping on Goombas in Super Mario Bros. ![]() Classically trained since the age of 3 and raised in a family of piano players, Shimomura had studied to become a piano teacher. After graduating from the Osaka College of Music in 1988, Yoko Shimomura was torn between career paths. ![]()
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