Hirokazu Tanaka

, also known as Chip Tanaka, is a Japanese musician, composer, sound designer, and executive who pioneered chiptune music. He is best known as one of Nintendo's in-house composers during the 8- and 16-bit era of video games. Tanaka also had a role in designing and programming the Famicom and Game Boy audio hardware, along with the NES Zapper, Game Boy Camera, and Game Boy Printer.

Tanaka's soundtrack credits include ''Metroid'' (1986), ''Kid Icarus'' (1986), ''Super Mario Land'' (1989), ''Tetris'' (1989), ''Mother'' (1989), ''Dr. Mario'' (1990), and ''EarthBound'' (1994). He was the president and executive director of Creatures from 2001 to 2023, before resigning and becoming creative fellow in the company. Provided by Wikipedia