{"id":1082,"date":"2020-03-24T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/?page_id=1082"},"modified":"2024-06-30T18:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T18:56:38","slug":"koji-kondo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/koji-kondo\/","title":{"rendered":"Koji Kondo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Koji Kondo<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Koji Kondo (Japanese: \u8fd1\u85e4 \u6d69\u6cbb, Hepburn: Kond\u014d K\u014dji, August 13, 1961) is a Japanese music composer, pianist, and sound director for the video game company Nintendo. He is best known for his many contributions to the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series of video games, among others produced by the company. Kondo was hired by Nintendo in 1984, becoming the first person hired by them to specialize in video game music. His work in the Mario and Zelda series have been cited as the most memorable in video games, such as the Super Mario Bros. overworld theme. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koji_Kondo\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Lambert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kondo.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3967 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kondo.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kondo-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kondo-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/kondo-400x400.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Best Song<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-aiovg-video\"><div class=\"aiovg-player-container\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"><div class=\"aiovg-player aiovg-player-iframe\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/player-embed\/id\/1082\/?youtube=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj0waEVZdmRNb0YyZw..\" title=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koji Kondo Koji Kondo (Japanese: \u8fd1\u85e4 \u6d69\u6cbb, Hepburn: Kond\u014d K\u014dji, August 13, 1961) is a Japanese music composer, pianist, and sound director for the video game company Nintendo. He is best known for his many contributions to the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series of video games, among others produced by the company.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/koji-kondo\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Koji Kondo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1082","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1082\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/continental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}