David Wise
aka:
Dave Wise,
D. Wise
Moby ID: 165438
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David Wise was hired by Ashby Computers and Graphics (now Rare Ltd.) in 1985. He played in a few bands when he was young. He worked at a music store, and he made a demonstration on a Yamaha CX5 music computer when one day Tim and Chris Stamper walked in saw this demonstration and hired him to compose music for their games. From 1985 up until 1994, he was the sole music composer for the company. He wrote music for all of Rare's games or programmed other compositions from other systems that were ported to the NES by Rare. Many of these games did not have credits within them, but he is the only known composer during this period.
His best known work is composing the Donkey Kong Country series of games, which is also one of the better SNES music compositions.
Today, he is still composing music for Rare.
Credited on 60 games
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| Helldivers II (2024, PlayStation 5) | Nashville Scoring Orchestra Conducted by |
| Everhood: Eternity Edition (2023, PlayStation 4) | "The Jazz Cult" |
| Destiny 2: The Witch Queen (2022, Xbox One) | Conductors |
| Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (2021, PlayStation 5) | Nashville Session Orchestra Conducted by |
| Antonball Deluxe (2021, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War (2020, PlayStation 4) | Additional Vocal Arranging |
| Battletoads (2020, Windows) | 'Battletoads' |
| Tamarin (2019, PlayStation 4) | Music |
| Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (2019, Windows) | Composers |
| Destiny 2: Shadowkeep (2019, PlayStation 4) | Conductors |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (2018, PlayStation 4) | Additional Vocal Arranging |
| Star Ghost (2017, Nintendo Switch) | Music |
| Yooka-Laylee (2017, PlayStation 4) | Composers |
| Snake Pass (2017, PlayStation 4) | Music |
| Rare Replay (2015, Xbox One) | Special Thanks |
| Tengami (2015, Windows) | With Music Composed by |
| Donkey Downfall (2014, Amiga) | Original music by |
| Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (2014, Wii U) | Music |
| Sorcery! (2013, iPhone) | Music by |
| AXRIA Retro World (2012, Windows) | Music |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 25 games with Tim Stamper
- 22 games with Chris Stamper
- 20 games with Huw Ward
- 20 games with Kevin Bayliss
- 19 games with Joel Hochberg
- 16 games with Mark Betteridge
- 13 games with Gary Richards
- 13 games with Gregg Mayles
- 12 games with Paul J. Machacek
- 12 games with Stephen Stamper
Companies
- 36 games with Rare Limited
- 16 games with Nintendo of America Inc.
- 13 games with Nintendo of Europe GmbH
- 12 games with Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- 8 games with Tim Girvin Design, Inc.
- 6 games with Tradewest, Inc.
- 6 games with Nintendo UK
- 6 games with Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
- 6 games with Nintendo France SARL
- 6 games with Nintendo Benelux B.V.
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