Mahito Yokota

Mahito Yokota is a celebrated video game composer. He currently resides in Nintendo EAD Tokyo as the sole music composer and has worked primarily on Super Mario Galaxy and Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat. For Super Mario Galaxy, a game in which he served as the prominent composer, he worked alongside veteran Koji Kondo. Before Super Mario Galaxy, not much was known about Mahito Yokota, though before th game's release Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, had an interview with the sound team of the game, in which information regarding the composer was revealed.

Before working with Nintendo EAD Tokyo, Yokota had worked at Koei on a variety of their projects. His first title with Nintendo was Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, whose sound was rated an 8.5 by IGN who praised the "appropriate" jungle tunes. He later worked on the brilliant teaser song for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess which aired during the game's E3 2005 trailer (which can be viewed here).

Then Super Mario Galaxy game out. The game has been regarded by many as featuring the best songs in any video game, let alone any Mario title, and won various awards in 2007 by a multitude of outlets. The fantastic upbeat and epic scores graced their own soundtrack, albeit it was only available through Nintendo's Club Nintendo service.