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Mitsuda was born in Tokuyama , Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, and raised in Kumage . As a child, he took piano lessons, but he was more interested in sports and so never took music seriously. He also took to computers at an early age, and he taught himself to program simple songs and games. After a brief infatuation with golf, Mitsuda rediscovered music in high school, inspired by the scores of movies such as Blade Runner and by the works or composers such as Henry Mancini.
After high school, Mitsuda moved to Tokyo and enrolled in the Junior College of Music. Despite the school's low prestige, Mitsuda received solid instruction from his professors, most of them practicing musicians who would take Mitsuda to gigs with them to help carry and set up equipment. Despite being used for free physical labor, Mitsuda got a first-hand view of the Japanese music world and valuable training both in and out of the classroom.
One of his instructors had worked in video games, and he showed Mitsuda an advertisement for an opening in the music department at the software developer SquaresoftSquare Co. or Squaresoft internationally is a Japanese video game company created in 1983 as part of a software development firm called Denyuusha. In 1985, Squaresoft began making games for the Nintendo Famicom (called the Nintendo Entertainment System in. Mitsuda sent a demo which won him an interview at the game studio. Despite the "disastrous" interview (as he describes it), Mitsuda was offered a position on the company's sound team in April, 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi.
Although his official job title was "composer", Mitsuda found himself working more as a sound engineer, a person who takes compositions by other people and adapts them to the technology used in making video games. In 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja, he finally gave Squaresoft's vice president, Hironobu SakaguchiHironobu Sakaguchi ( , born 1962) was the Director of Planning and Development for Square, Co. He is the creator of the Final Fantasy and Chrono series. In 1991 he was honored with the position of Executive Vice President followed shortly thereafter by an, an ultimatum: let him compose, or he would quit. Sakaguchi assigned the young musician to the team working on Chrono TriggerChrono Trigger is a role-playing video game that was released in Japan on March 11, 1995 for the Super Famicom and in North America on August 22, 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES); it was re-released in 2001 for the Sony PlayStation. Mitsuda was allowed to compose the majority of the tracks for the game under the watchful eye of veteran composer Nobuo UematsuNobuo Uematsu ( ; Uematsu Nobuo (born March 21, 1959) is a Japanese composer of video game music, and one of the most well-known, prolific, and versatile in the field. He has composed music for the Final Fantasy series of games, and some of the pieces in.
The Chrono Trigger soundtrack proved extremely popular with fans. Mitsuda worked on four more titles for Squaresoft, the last being Xenogears in 1998 (he also composed the soundtrack to Xenosaga : The Will To Power, which is believed to be set in the Xenogears universe, although released by Monolith rather than Squaresoft.) He then went freelance, though he continued to work closely with Squaresoft on projects such as the Chrono Trigger sequel, Chrono Cross. He has also released non-video-game music, such as his CD Sailing to the World .