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Yuka TsujiyokoYuka Tsujiyoko (辻横 由佳 Tsujiyoko Yuka) is a Japanese video game music composer for Nintendo. She is the music composer for the Fire Emblem video game franchise, which was never to be released outside Japan until 2003, and several other Intelligent Systems developed games. She is one of the most versatile in the video game music field, and rivals Yoko Shimomura among the women in that field. She also scored Metal Combat, Battle Clash, Paper Mario (with Taishi Senda), and part of Tetris Attack. She was born in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. She is known for her fine music. Therefore, she rivals Koji Kondo, Nobuo Uematsu and Koichi Sugiyama. Tsujiyoko studied piano when she was in a preschool. She composed her first original composition when she was in high school, and that was her assignment for her music class. Tsujiyoko attended Osaka Electric Communications Junior College, and she majored in electronic engineering. Before she entered Intelligent Systems (a video game developer for Nintendo), Tsujiyoko worked as a computer programmer for a productivity (or non-entertainment) software company. The largest game soundtrack she composed was for the emulation-popular Super Famicom game Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu, composed of 114 tracks. She works at Intelligent Systems part time, and formerly worked there full time. She was first known in the United States for scoring Paper Mario, with Taishi Senda. She left Intelligent Systems as full time employee after scoring Paper Mario. Tsujiyoko was inspired by her favorite artist Pat Metheny. Her mentor is Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka. Tsujiyoko did not score Fire Emblem: Seima no Kouseki, but she only supervised the score. Under Tsujiyoko's supervision, the game was scored by Saki Haruyama, Yoshihiko Kitamura, and Yoshito Hirano. Soundtracks - Fire Emblem
- Fire Emblem Gaiden
- Battle Clash
- Metal Combat
- Fire Emblem: Monshou no Nazo
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- Tetris Attack
- Super Famicom Wars
- Mario Story (a.k.a. Paper Mario) - With Taishi Senda
- Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi
- (a.k.a. Fire Emblem in North America)
- Fire Emblem: Seima no Kouseki
- Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
- Fire Emblem: Souen no Kiseki
Tsujiyoko, Yuka Tsujiyoko, Yuka Tsujiyoko, Yuka
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