The man behind the music for Castlevania, Contra, Parodius and more.
They say that you create some of your best work when you’re put in a difficult situation, and for the many composers who had to make the Game Boy’s crude audio hardware sing, that does seem to have been the case. Despite its humble nature, the console is home to some truly memorable soundtracks – and one person who arguably mastered it better than most was Konami’s Hidehiro Funauchi (also credited as ‘FK‑King’).
There’s very little information online about Funauchi, and much of what you’re about to read here is informed by an excellent piece on the composer by Micro-Chop’s Gino Sorcinelli. It seems that he joined Konami in the late ’80s, earning his first composter credit came in 1989 on the Family Computer title TwinBee 3: Poko Poko Daimaō alongside Atsushi Fujio (‘Sukenomiya’) and Katsuhiko Suzuki (‘Flamingo’). This would turn out to be his only non-Game Boy composer credit, and for the next few years, he plied his trade fastidiously on Nintendo’s monochrome handheld, turning out some of the best soundtracks to ever grace the console.
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