Shinji Hosoe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shinji Hosoe

Video game composer and musician

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1967

Place of Birth: Gero, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Profession: composer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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Shinji Hosoe (?? ??, Hosoe Shinji, born February 28, 1967), also known as MEGATEN and SamplingMasters MEGA, is a Japanese video game composer and musician most famous for scoring Ridge Racer, Street Fighter EX and many Namco arcade games between 1987 and 1996.
He also created the in-game music for Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse.
He was assisted by Yuki Kajiura on the project, though he did not return as a composer for Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra.
He also runs the music production and publishing company SuperSweep, alongside long time collaborator Ayako Saso. Outside of the video game industry he has a few side projects, most notably Sampling Masters and Oriental Magnetic Yellow (OMY), the latter of which is a parody band of Yellow Magic Orchestra he formed with fellow Namco composers Nobuyoshi Sano, Takayuki Aihara and Hiroto Sasaki.