Tatsuya Uemura (上村建也 Uemura Tatsuya, born June 23, 1960) is a Japanese arcade game musician and programmer.

He is regarded as one of the better music programmers and composers in this genre, and is the creator behind the following arcade game scores:

• Flying Shark
• Tiger Heli
• Hellfire
• Twin Cobra
• Out Zone
• Dogyuun
• Zero Wing (with Toshiaki Tomisawa and Masahiro Yuge)

After Toaplan closed its doors in 1994, Uemura joined the Toaplan offshoot company Gazelle, and served as director of the 1996 shooter Air Gallet (Akuu Gallet; distributed by Banpresto). In 1999, he worked for 8ing/Raizing as a programmer for the shooter Battle Bakraid (a follow-up to 1996's Battle Garegga).

[edit] External links

• Homepage in japanese
• CDs with Uemura's music
• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix

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