The Videogame Scores of Minako Adachi
This post was originally made on my blog December 30th, 2016. I present here, lightly edited, for archival purposes.
Jissen Kyoutei | Aisystem Tokyo | Jun. 23 1996
Masahito Miyamoto, Kyohiro Sada, & Minako Adachi
Zakuro no Aji | Imagineer | 1995
Kiyohiro Sada & Minako Adachi
Robo Pit | Altron | 1996
Minako Adachi
Grand Sumo Tournament 64 | 1997
Minako Adachi & Takuya Yokota
International Soccer Excite Stage 2000 | 2000
Minako Adachi, Kohei Matsuoka, & Sakuro Kumanome
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages | Capcom, Flagship | Feb. 27 2001
& The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Minako Adachi (& Kiyohiro Sada?)
Keitai Denju Telefang 2 | Natsume | Apr. 26 2002
Minako Adachi
Riviera: The Promised Land | Sting | Jul. 12 2002 (WSColor), Nov. 25 3002 (GBA), Nov. 22 2006 (PSP)
Minako Adachi & Shigeki Hayashi
Each re-release of the game has had its soundtrack remastered. Part of the Dept. Heaven series.
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story | Flight-Plan | Apr. 25 2003
Kiyohiro Sada, Kohei Matsuoka, & Minako Adachi
Summon Night 3 | Flight-Plan | Aug. 7 2003 (PS2), Oct. 4 2012 (PSP)
Chiaki Fujita & Minako Adachi
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2 | Flight-Plan | Apr. 20 2004
Kiyohiro Sada, Kohei Matsuoka, & Minako Adachi
Much of this soundtrack originated in the first Swordcraft Story, though it does have a couple new pieces.
Black/Matrix 00 | May. 13 2004
Seiichi Kakahasi & Minako Adachi
Confirmed by Adachi's Twitter account.
Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone | Sting | Mar. 23 2006 (GBA), Jan. 24 2008 (PSP)
Minako Adachi & Shigeki Hayashi
PSP remake had the original soundtrack remastered. Part of the Dept. Heaven series.
Summon Night 4 | Flight-Plan | Nov. 30 2006
Chiaki Fujita, Minako Adachi, & Masafumi Ogata
Avalon Code | Matrix Software | Nov. 1 2008
Minako Adachi
Her Japanese Wikipedia page claims that she worked alongside Megumi Komagata for this.
Half-Minute Hero | Marvelous | May 28 2009
A complete list of composers can be found at VGMdb.
Summon Night X: Tear's Crown | Flight-Plan, Think & Feel | Nov. 5 2009
Minako Adachi & Megumi Komogata
Yggdra Union ~Seiken Buyoden~ | Sting | Dec. 3 2009 (DS)
Minako Adachi
A side game to the Dept. Heaven series. An upgraded port of a mobile phone game.
Pokémon Black | Game Freak | Sep. 18 2010
Pokémon White
Shota Kageyama, Hitomi Sato, Go Ichinose, Junichi Masuda, Minako Adachi, Morikazu Aoki, & Satoshi Nohara
Aoki and Nohara are credited for past work in the series which was re-used and arranged by the game's composers. Bulbapedia has a list detailing who composed and arranged what.
Pokémon Black 2 | Game Freak | Jan. 23 2012
Pokémon White 2
Go Ichinose, Hitomi Sato, Teruo Taniguchi, Junichi Masuda, Minako Adachi, & Shota Kageyama
Masuda, Adachi, and Kageyama are credited for past work which was reused and arranged by the game's composers. Bulbapedia has a list detailing who composed and arranged what.
HarmoKnight | Game Freak | Sep. 5 2012
Minako Adachi, Nobuo Kiyota, Kiyoto Ohtani, Kiyohiro Sada, Junichi Masuda, & Go Ichinose.
Masuda and Ichinose received credits as four tracks of their music from Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal are arranged for the four bonus Pokémon-themed stages in the game.
Summon Night 5 | Flight-Plan | May 16 2013
Chiaki Fujita, Megumi Konagata, Kiyoto Ohtani, Kiyoto Nakamura, Kohei Matsuoka, Minako Adachi, Go Oami, & Kenichi Kunishima
My thanks to RPGFan's review of the soundtrack, which details who from Pure Sound and who from Choir Co. composed for the score.
Pokémon X | Game Freak | Oct. 12 2013
Pokémon Y
Shota Kageyama, Minako Adachi, Hitomi Sato, Junichi Masuda, Morikazu Aoki, & Go Ichinose
Aoki and Ichinose are credited for past work which was reused and arranged by the game's composers. For more details, Bulbapedia has a list with individual composition and arrangement credits.
Pokémon Omega Ruby | Game Freak | Nov. 21 2014
Pokémon Alpha Sapphire
Shota Kageyama, Minako Adachi, Hideaki Kuroda, Hitomi Sato, Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Morikazu Aoki, & Satoshi Nohara
Masuda, Ichinose, and Aoki are credited for the score of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, which was arranged for these games, which are remakes. Satoshi Nohara is credited for past work which was reused and arranged by the composers. Kageyama, Adachi, and Sato also contributed new work. For more detail, Bulbapedia has a list with individual composition and arrangement credits.
Pokémon Sun | Game Freak | Nov. 18 2016
Pokémon Moon
Minako Adachi, Hitomi Sato, Go Ichinose, Tomoaki Oga, Junichi Masuda, Hideaki Kuroda, Jun Fukuda, Morikazu Aoki, & Shota Kageyama
Aoki is credited for past work reused and arranged by the game's composers. Fukuda contributed a single arrangement. Music from Pokémon X & Y composed by Kageyama returns in this game completely unaltered. As always, Bulbapedia has a more detailed list of who did what.
Pokémon Ultra Sun | Game Freak | Nov. 17 2017
Pokémon Ultra Moon
It's unknown precisely who did what: no official soundtrack has been released. However, the game's credits do include this:
Sound
Minako Adachi
Go Ichinose
Junichi Masuda
Tomoaki Oga
From SNESmusic.
Gan Gan Ganchan | Team Mental Care | Oct. 27 1995
Minako Adachi
From SNESmusic.
SD Ultra Battle: Seven Densetsu | Tom Create | Jun. 28 1996
Kiyohiro Sada, Minako Adachi, Akira Shouji, & Kiyoshi Suzuki
From SNESmusic.
Bounty Hunter Sara: Holy Mountain no Teio | Capcom | May 23 2001
Toshio Kajino, Saori Utsumi, Hideaki Utsumi, Minako Adachi, Takuya Yokota, Kohei Matsuoka, Hiroshi Horiguchi, Shuichi Mizohata, Katsuhiko Tanaka, Takashi Tachibana, Hiroko Takagi, Masayoshi Shimano, Seiichi Kahehashi, Saoshi Takara, Noritoki Yamaguchi, Yoshiharu Ota, Ryo Kasai, Yayoi Okumura, & Yuichiro Hondo
From Mobygames.
Space Raiders | Taito | Apr 2004
Kota Takahashi, Minako Adachi, & Kohei Matsuoka
From Mobygames.
Dungeon Savior | ? | the 90s, probably
Minako Adachi (and others?)
Found out via this post on the VGM In Irregular Time of the Day blog. There are a couple other posts from this game on the blog, as well.
Treasure Hunter G | Sting | May 24 1996
Mitsuhito Tanaka, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Masaharu Iwata, Toshiaki Sakoda, Yoko Takada, Tomoko Matsui, & Akiko Goto
Listed by her Japanese Wikipedia page, along with Spark World.
Minako Adachi is a very talented composer, as you can see given the sheer variety of what she's done: Summon Night, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon? All that on one C.V. is an impressive thing indeed!