Koji Kondo
- 1985 Super Mario Bros.
- 1986 The Legend of Zelda
- 1988 Super Mario Bros. 3
The writers
Video game composers
Profiles of composers whose music shaped how games sound, written from published sources only. Each card is coloured by the era the composer is most closely linked with on our timeline.
The 8-bit era The 16-bit era Nobuo Uematsu
- 1987 Final Fantasy
- 1994 Final Fantasy VI
- 1995 Chrono Trigger (with Yasunori Mitsuda)
The 16-bit era Yoko Shimomura
- 1991 Street Fighter II
- 1996 Super Mario RPG
- 1999 Legend of Mana
CD audio and the 90s Grant Kirkhope
- 1997 GoldenEye 007 (with others)
- 1998 Banjo-Kazooie
- 1999 Donkey Kong 64
The 16-bit era David Wise
- 1987 Wizards & Warriors
- 1991 Battletoads
- 1994 Donkey Kong Country (with Robin Beanland and Eveline Fischer)
Indie and digital Jessica Curry
- 2012 Dear Esther
- 2013 Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
- 2015 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Indie and digital Austin Wintory
- 2006 flOw
- 2012 Journey
- 2014 The Banner Saga
Indie and digital Darren Korb
- 2011 Bastion
- 2014 Transistor
- 2017 Pyre
Adaptive and modern Lena Raine
- 2015 Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns (with Maclaine Diemer)
- 2018 Celeste
- 2020 Minecraft: Nether Update (new tracks)
Adaptive and modern Gareth Coker
- 2015 Ori and the Blind Forest
- 2017 ARK: Survival Evolved
- 2020 Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Adaptive and modern Winifred Phillips
- 2005 God of War (co-composer)
- 2008 Speed Racer: The Videogame
- 2009 Spore Hero
The orchestral turn Martin O'Donnell
- 1997 Myth: The Fallen Lords (with Michael Salvatori)
- 2001 Halo: Combat Evolved (with Michael Salvatori)
- 2004 Halo 2 (with Michael Salvatori)