Kentaro Koyama

Kentaro Koyama (小山 健太郎) (also known as Kentaro Kobayashi (小林 健太郎) from 1998 to 2001) is a Sega sound creator who served as a major music composer in its AM3 department up through its rechristening as Hitmaker and its ultimate closure in 2008. He is best known as the sound director of the Virtual-On series and has also created the music for the first Virtua Cop title as well as both Gunblade NY and L.A. Machineguns.

Despite Hitmaker's closure, Koyama has continued his work with Sega, as demonstrated by his involvement with Yakuza 3.

Production History

• Virtua Cop (Arcade and Saturn Versions) (1994/1995) — Sound Composer
• Cyber Troopers Virtual-On (Arcade Version) (1995) — Music & Sound Effects
• Cyber Troopers "Virtual-On" Official Sound Data (CD) (1996)
• NiGHTS into Dreams (1996) — Special Thanks
• Gunblade NY (1996) — Sound
• Cyber Troopers Virtual-On (Saturn Version) (1996) — Music Advisor (Staff)
• Cyber Troopers Virtual-On (PC Version) (1997) — Music Adviser
• L.A. Machineguns (1998) — sound director/composer (as Kentaro Kobayashi)
• Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram (Arcade and Dreamcast Versions) (1998/1999) — Sound designer (Software R&D #3 Dept.) (Virtual-On Works) (as Kentaro Kobayashi)
• Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Remixes "Oratorio Tangram" (CD) (1999) (as Kentaro Kobayashi)
• Crackin' DJ (2000)
• Crackin' DJ Part 2 (2001)
• Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Force (2001) — Sound Designer (Virtual-On Works) (as Kentaro Kobayashi)
• Virtual-On Marz (2003) — Sound Designer
• Virtual-On 10th Anniversary Tournament "We Are The Champions!" (2005)
• Sega Rally 2006 (2006)
• Cyber Troopers "Virtual-On" Original Sound Track (CD) (2007)
• Sega Superstars Tennis (2008) — Special Thanks
• Sega Superstars Tennis (DS Version) (2008) — AM3
• Vermilion VS Rent a Hero Original Soundtrack (CD) (2009)
• Yakuza 3 (2009) — Sound Production ("Yakuza 3" Sound Team)
• Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram (XBLA Version) (2009) — Sound designer (Software R&D #3 Dept.) (Virtual-On Works)
• Crackin' DJ Complete Album (CD) (2010)
• Gunblade NY & L.A. Machineguns Arcade Hits Pack (2010) — Sound (Original Staff) (Gunblade NY), Composer & Sound Director (Original Staff) (L.A. Machineguns) (as Kentaro Kobayashi)

Song Credits

Virtua Cop (Arcade Version)

• Night City — Music & Arrangement
• Virtua Cop — Music & Arrangement
• Advertise — Music & Arrangement
• Stage Select — Music & Arrangement
• Arms Black Market — Music & Arrangement
• Kong — Music & Arrangement
• Underground Weapon Storage — Music & Arrangement
• King — Music & Arrangement
• Gang Headquarters — Music & Arrangement
• President — Music & Arrangement
• Fang — Music & Arrangement
• F I N — Music & Arrangement
• Name Entry — Music & Arrangement
• Game Over — Music & Arrangement
• Stage Clear — Music & Arrangement
• Rage — Music & Arrangement
• Smarty — Music & Arrangement
• Time (Not Use) — Music & Arrangement

Cyber Troopers Virtual-On (Arcade Version)

• New Orthodoxy — Music & Arrangement
• Transition — Music & Arrangement
• Sally — Music & Arrangement
• In the Blue Sky — Music & Arrangement
• Winner ver. 1 — Music & Arrangement
• She's Lost Control (S.L.C.) — Music & Arrangement
• Everything Merges with the Night — Music & Arrangement
• Encounter — Music & Arrangement
• Higher Ground — Music & Arrangement
• Ruins — Music & Arrangement
• Winner ver. 2 — Music & Arrangement
• Warning — Music & Arrangement
• Alice in the Wonderland — Music & Arrangement
• Loser — Music & Arrangement
• Patience — Music & Arrangement
• Operation Moon Gate — Music & Arrangement
• Earth Light — Music & Arrangement
• The Wind Is Blowing — Music & Arrangement
• Interlude — Music & Arrangement
• Fade to Black — Music & Arrangement
• Crystal Doom — Music & Arrangement
• Report — Music & Arrangement
• Absent Lovers — Music & Arrangement
• Waiting Girl — Music & Arrangement
• Burned by the Fire — Music & Arrangement
• Atrophy — Music & Arrangement
• Withdrawal — Music & Arrangement
• From the Moon to Me — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
• hypotension/case 02 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
• hypotension/case 03 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
• hypotension/case 05 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
• SDB/comp 01 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
• SDB/start 03 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
• SDB/start 04 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused track]
• SDB/loser 01 — Music & Arrangement
• SDB/loser 02 — Music & Arrangement

Virtua Cop (Saturn Version)

• Virtua Cop — Music & Arrangement
• Advertise — Music & Arrangement
• Stage Select — Music & Arrangement
• Arms Black Market — Music & Arrangement
• Kong — Music & Arrangement
• Underground Weapon Storage — Music & Arrangement
• King — Music & Arrangement
• Gang Headquarters — Music & Arrangement
• President — Music & Arrangement
• Fang — Music & Arrangement
• F I N — Music & Arrangement
• Name Entry — Music & Arrangement
• Game Over — Music & Arrangement
• Stage Clear — Music & Arrangement

Cyber Troopers "Virtual-On" Official Sound Data

• In the Blue Sky (Arrange Version) — Music & Arrangement, Performed by, Programming
• The Wind Is Blowing (Arrange Version) — Music & Arrangement, Performed by, Programming

Gunblade NY

• Gun Blade — Music & Arrangement
• Credit — Music & Arrangement
• Mission Select — Music & Arrangement
• S.A.A.F. — Music & Arrangement
• Times Square — Music & Arrangement
• Boss 01 — Music & Arrangement
• Stage Clear — Music & Arrangement
• Midtown Manhattan — Music & Arrangement
• United Nations H.Q. (515 Hours) — Music & Arrangement
• Cargo Ship — Music & Arrangement
• Boss 02 — Music & Arrangement
• Brooklyn Bridge — Music & Arrangement
• Battery Park — Music & Arrangement
• Grand Army Plaza — Music & Arrangement
• Midtown Night (Cry for You Lost Rainbow) — Music & Arrangement
• Boss 03 — Music & Arrangement
• Mission Complete — Music & Arrangement
• Congratulations — Music & Arrangement
• Gun Blade (short Ver.) — Music & Arrangement
• Congratulations (long Ver.) — Music & Arrangement
• Stage Select (Not Used) — Music & Arrangement
• Continue (Not Used) — Music & Arrangement
• Stage Clear 02 — Music & Arrangement
• Stage Clear 02 (long Ver.) — Music & Arrangement

L.A. Machineguns

• Rage of the machines / advertising BGM — Music & Arrangement
• stage select — Music & Arrangement
• Jet Squadron / Los Angeles stage BGM — Music & Arrangement
• Black Judge / Los Angeles boss BGM — Music & Arrangement
• mission success — Music & Arrangement
• water raid / Alcatraz stage BGM — Music & Arrangement
• Xenophobia / Alcatraz boss BGM — Music & Arrangement
• The Goon / Las Vegas stage BGM — Music & Arrangement
• out flankers / Las Vegas boss BGM — Music & Arrangement
• mission failed — Music & Arrangement
• smart sting / Yosemite stage BGM 1 — Music & Arrangement
• overload / Yosemite stage BGM 2 — Music & Arrangement
• Triskelion / Yosemite boss BGM — Music & Arrangement
• Warning~Load of the Pit / Valley of fire stage BGM — Music & Arrangement
• name entry — Music & Arrangement
• Triumph / ending BGM 1 — Music & Arrangement
• Patriot's Delight / ending BGM 2 — Music & Arrangement
• Jet Squadron remix version — Music & Arrangement

Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Remixes "Oratorio Tangram"

• movin' melodies / Movin@Ct-V.O.O.T Mix — Music, Remixed by

Crackin' DJ

• Glamorous Fingers — Music & Arrangement
• hipster — Music & Arrangement
• road to the desert — Music & Arrangement
• Double Moon — Music & Arrangement
• glamorous fingers (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
• hipster (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
• road to the desert (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
• double moon (scratching) — Music & Arrangement

Crackin' DJ Part 2

• Natural Flow — Music & Arrangement
• Miracle Cave — Music & Arrangement
• Psychoanalyze — Music & Arrangement

Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Force

• transition '01 ~ Force — Music & Arrangement
• MSBS ver. 7.5 — Music & Arrangement
• intermission ~ get ready — Music & Arrangement
• tidal blue — Music & Arrangement
• promotion — Music & Arrangement
• S.L.C. '01 — Music & Arrangement
• high on hope '01 — Music & Arrangement
• encounter — Music & Arrangement
• in the blue sky '01 — Music & Arrangement
• conquista ciela — Music & Arrangement
• air time — Music & Arrangement
• no mercy — Music & Arrangement
• the wind is blowing '01 — Music
• loser ver. 2 — Music & Arrangement
• lonely dancer — Music & Arrangement
• destructive happiness — Music & Arrangement
• winner ver. 01 — Music & Arrangement
• fit so tight — Music & Arrangement
• tiger! tiger! — Music & Arrangement
• loser ver. 03 — Music & Arrangement
• demotion — Music & Arrangement
• 515 hours — Music & Arrangement
• winner ver. 02 — Music & Arrangement
• put your future out of frame — Music & Arrangement
• loser ver. 1 — Music & Arrangement
• patience — Music & Arrangement
• winner ver. 03 — Music & Arrangement
• news — Music & Arrangement
• models — Music & Arrangement
• from the ruins — Music & Arrangement
• black minalouche — Music & Arrangement
• double P — Music & Arrangement
• tears for bloody solid — Music & Arrangement
• cry for your lost rainbow — Music & Arrangement
• withdrawal — Music & Arrangement

Virtual-On 10th Anniversary Tournament "We Are The Champions!"

• Transition '05 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Opening theme; later reused as the Advertise BGM for Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 31: Cyber Troopers Virtual-On]

Sega Rally 2006

• Toroidal Game — Music & Arrangement
• Violently Overtaking — Music & Arrangement
• Blue Horizon — Music & Arrangement

Cyber Troopers "Virtual-On" Original Sound Track

• Everything merges with the night -Sound! Shock Arrange Ver.- — Music & Arrangement, Performed by, Programming

Vermilion VS Rent a Hero Original Soundtrack

• Light Song -[H.] Arrange Ver.- — Choir (w/Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Junpei Mishima, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Yasuhiro Takagi, Susumu Tsukagoshi, Chihiro Aoki & Takahiro Kai)

Yakuza 3

• Entrance to the Chaos — Music & Arrangement

Crackin' DJ Complete Album

• Natural Flow (Prototype) — Music & Arrangement
• Miracle Cave (Prototype) — Music & Arrangement
• hipster (Prototype) — Music & Arrangement
• Psychoanalyze (Prototype) — Music & Arrangement