Masatoshi Arai

Masatoshi Arai

Local 新井 正俊 (あらい まさとし) Born Birth Place Japan Nationality Japanese   Aliases M. Arai, Machine Rio, リオ (Rio), 新井 理生 (Rio Arai)

Masatoshi Arai is a Japanese composer and sound designer who worked at Tecmo.

For many years, his real name was unknown to the public, until he identified himself as the person behind the alias "Rio" in 2020 on his Twitter.

Audio Development

GB

For Captain Tsubasa VS, Masatoshi wrote the music in Music Macro Language using Hiroto Kanno and Yasuyuki Hamada's sound driver. He said this about the songs he wrote for the game:

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As an added bonus, I also did the OP and ED for the Game Boy Captain Tsubasa VS. The credit for this one was Rio! Maybe I made it right after I joined the company, around the end of Golden Week.

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NES

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I wrote the score with 4 voices, then replaced the notes with numerical values and entered the data.

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Masatoshi used a sound driver by Keiji Yamagishi.

Gameography

Released	Title	Sample	Notes
1988-04-28	Tecmo Cup: Soccer Game (NES) (キャプテン翼)		With Keiji Yamagishi. USA version only.
1992-03-27	Captain Tsubasa VS (GB) (キャプテン翼ＶＳ)		Opening and Ending music. [1]
1992-07-17	Captain Tsubasa III: Challenge of the Emperor (SFC) (キャプテン翼Ⅲ ―皇帝の挑戦―)		With Ryuichi Nitta, Rika Shigeno, and Kaori Nakabai. [2]
1992-??-??	Final Star Force (ARC) (ファイナルスターフォース)		With Hiroshi Miyazaki, Keiji Yamagishi, Kaori Nakabai, and Rika Shigeno.
Unreleased	Tecmo Cup Football Game (SMD)

Image Gallery

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Links

• facebook.com/arai.masatoshi.5 - Facebook.
• twitter.com/masatoshi_arai - Twitter.