Yuka Tsujiyoko facts for kids

Yuka Tsujiyoko is a talented Japanese composer who creates music for video games. She is famous for her work on popular game series like Fire Emblem and Paper Mario. She has also contributed to many other games made by a company called Intelligent Systems.

About Yuka Tsujiyoko

Yuka Tsujiyoko was born in Uji, a city in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. She started learning to play the piano when she was very young, even before she went to school. When she was in high school, she wrote her very first original song as part of a music class assignment.

Yuka Tsujiyoko went to Osaka Electro-Communication University. There, she studied electronic engineering, which is about how electronic devices work. Before she joined Intelligent Systems, a well-known game development company, she worked as a computer programmer for a software company. Yuka Tsujiyoko was inspired by other musicians, including Pat Metheny and Hirokazu Tanaka. Hirokazu Tanaka even helped her with her very first game project, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light.

Her Music in Games

Yuka Tsujiyoko has composed music or supervised sound for many video games. Her work has helped bring many game worlds to life with exciting and memorable tunes. Here are some of the games she has worked on:

• Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light (1990) - Music
• Backgammon (1990) - Music
• Fire Emblem Gaiden (1992) - Music
• Battle Clash (1992) - Music
• Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (1994) - Music
• Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge (1994) - Music
• Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (1996) - Music
• Tetris Attack (Game Boy) (1996) - Music
• Super Famicom Wars (1998) - Sound assist
• Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 (1999) - Music
• Paper Mario (2000) - Music
• Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade (2002) - Music
• Daisuki Teddy (2002) - Music
• Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (2003) - Music
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) - Music
• Croket! Great Jikuu no Boukensha (2004) - Music
• Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (2004) - Sound supervisor
• Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (2005) - Sound supervisor
• Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (2007) - Sound supervisor
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008) - Arrangements
• Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (2008) - Sound director
• Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem (2010) - Sound supervisor
• Fire Emblem Awakening (2012) - Sound supervisor
• Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (2014) - Arrangements
• Pokémon Picross (2015) - Music
• Fire Emblem Fates (2015) - Sound supervisor
• Fire Emblem Heroes (2017) - Sound supervisor
• Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (2017) - Sound supervisor
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018) - Arrangements
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019) - Sound supervisor
• Sin Chronicle (2022) - "Far beyond..."
• Fire Emblem Engage (2023) - Sound supervisor