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Veteran Nintendo composers Koji Kondo and Kazumi Totaka expound upon the ever-changing world of video game audio in this interview published on Nintendo’s Japanese “Nintendo Online Monthly” website in 2001. As this interview sought to outline the day-to-day work of a videogame sound designer, there’s relatively little discussion about the conception of particular tunes, but there’s still plenty of insight into how Nintendo’s approach to audio has evolved in tandem with their hardware.