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Tohru Okada, creator of PlayStation's iconic logo sound, has died

Tohru Okada, the musician and music producer responsible for creating PlayStation's iconic logo sound, has died aged 73.

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Tohru Okada, the musician and music producer responsible for creating PlayStation's iconic logo sound, has died aged 73.

Okada's music career spanned decades and a wide variety of mediums including movies and anime, but he was perhaps best known in Japan as a founding member of influential rock band Moonriders, where he played alongside bandmate Keiichi Suzuki - who would go on to compose the music for Nintendo's Mother series.

Okada's own ties to gaming came primarily through his successful career composing for commercials. He notably wrote music for a series of very strange Crash Bandicoot adverts in the 90s (thanks Gamespot), but his most enduring - and immediately recognisable - contribution to gaming arrived through his work with PlayStation.

 

[01011001]

I found this a while ago thanks to the YT algorithm

youtube recommended me this out of nowhere,
has less than 400 views as well.



it's apparently made from remixed sounds of the PS1 boot sequence

the PS1 boot is iconic af

 

[mortal]

RIP
That iconic sound is burned into my memory. Not only will it outlive him, but it will outlive me as well. Pretty cool legacy.

 

[drganon]

Rip

 

[Varteras]

Good night, sweet prince

 

[IFireflyl]

I was literally thinking about how iconic this sound was yesterday. The thought came out of nowhere, but I just remembered how I would turn on Crash Bandicoot: Warped, or Spyro the Dragon, or Jet Moto 2, or Final Fantasy VIII... No matter what game I played, this music was there.

 

[StealthGoblin]

The more I think about it, that noise is really fucking weird. It's iconic and seared in my brain, but it's just so jarring. It's like a slap around the face when your head is groggy.

 

[sachos]

RIP. Legendary sound. To be clear he created the THUNG PS logo sound right? Or did he also create the PS1 boot up jingle and "PLAYSTASHON" sound at the end of every PS video/ad?

 

[ShadowLag]

Legend.

It's often easy to forget that a human being was responsible for a lot of things in pop culture that 10s of millions of people around the world adore without realizing it, even something like a startup jingle. RIP buddy.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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