Favourite game music soundtracks, 1981-2014
Note
Only one soundtrack per year.
Only one soundtrack per year.
1981
Arcade
TOSE/SNK
1982
Arcade
Fukumura Mizunaga (Sega) & Yellow Magic Orchestra
1983
Commodore 64
John F. Cain (Rabbit Software) & Yellow Magic Orchestra
1984
Commodore 64 & ZX Spectrum
David Whittaker (Terminal Software)
1985
Commodore 64
Rob Hubbard (System 3) & Ryuichi Sakamoto
1986
Arcade
Katsuhiro Hayashi (Sega)
1987
NEC PC-88
Yuzo Koshiro & Mieko Ishikawa (Nihon Falcom)
1988
NEC PC-88 & NEC PC-98
Toshiya Yamanaka (Arsys Software)
1989
Sharp X68000
Toshiya Yamanaka (Arsys Software)
1990
NEC TurboGrafx-CD, Nihon Falcom
Yuzo Koshiro, Mieko Ishikawa (Nihon Falcom), Ryo Yonemitsu
1991
Sharp X68000
Michiru Yamane, Hidenori Maezawa, Masae Nakashima (Konami)
1992
Sega Mega Drive
Yuzo Koshiro & Motohiro Kawashima (Sega AM7)
1993
SNES
Hiroki Kikuta (Squaresoft)
1994
Sega CD
Noriyuki Iwadare (Game Arts & Studio Alex)
1995
SNES
Yasunori Mitsuda & Nobuo Uematsu (Squaresoft Dream Team)
1996
Arcade
Tatsuro Suzuki & Syun Nishigaki (Capcom)
1997
PS1
Nobuo Uematsu (Square Product Development Division 1)
1998
PS1
Yasunori Mitsuda (Square Product Development Division 3)
1999
PS1
Nobuo Uematsu (Square Product Development Division 1)
2000
PS1
Yasunori Mitsuda (Square Product Development Division 3)
2001
PS2
Maki Kirioka, Norihiko Hibino (Konami KCEJ), Heart of Air
2002
PS2
Yoko Shimomura (Squaresoft), Utada, Kaoru Wada
2003
PS2
Maki Kirioka, Akihiro Honda, Norihiko Hibino (Konami KCEJ)
2004
PC
Jun Maeda, Magome Togoshi, Shinji Orito (Key)
2005
Arcade
Manabu Namiki, Mitsuhiro Kaneda (CAVE), Ryu Umemoto
2006
PSP & PS3
Ryuichi Takada & Satoru Kousaki (Namco)
2007
PC & PSP
Falcom Sound Team JDK (Nihon Falcom)
2008
PSP
Takeharu Ishimoto (Square Enix)
2009
Xbox 360
Manabu Namiki, Kimihiro Abe (CAVE), Ryu Umemoto
2010
Wii
Yoko Shimomura, Manami Kiyota, Yasunori Mitsuda (Monolith Soft)
2011
PS3 & Xbox 360
Harry Gregson-Williams, Norihiko Hibino, Rika Muranaka (Konami)
2012
PS Vita
Falcom Sound Team JDK (Nihon Falcom)
2013
PS3 / Wii U / PC / Xbox 360
Jake Kaufman (WayForward) & Hiroshige Tonomura (Capcom)
2014
PS3 & PS Vita
Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano (Square Enix), Nobuo Uematsu