Yasunori Mitsuda

Caught my ear when I was a little older. He's best known for doing songs for the Chrono and Xeno franchises: Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Xenosaga, and the Xenoblade series and other Monolithsoft projects like Soma Bringer. But he also worked on dozens of pother games, doing the soundtracks of the Shadowhearts games, Mario Party, and contributing to Smash Bros.

Much like Hip Tanaka, he began his career as a sound effects guy, working on franchises such as SaGa and Final Fantasy.

The guy suffers for his work! Rumour has it that he composed 37 soundtracks and has suffered 37 nervous breakdowns.

Note, I actually hate the below song because I had to listen to it 6000 times during one of my jobs. But it's one of his most popular

I prefer Koji Kondo. When it comes to creating iconic tunes, I don't think anyone comes even close.

What interesting about Metroid is, that it's music was composed of the game's sound effects, I believe.

Nobuo Uematsu do be the goat

Koji Kongo is pretty good too.

Koji Kondo is definitely the first name that pops to my mind. I would certainly argue he's the most iconic composer being behind the most iconic themes of Mario and Zelda. 

But is he the best? That's where he has some stiff competition.

Nobuo Uematsu and Yoko Shimomura are the two names that immediately jump to mind - Given their fingerprints are all over iconic JRPG franchises like Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts

Yasunori Mitsuda is another that definitely deserves to be in this conversation given his work with games like Chrono Trigger and the Xenoblade Chronicles series

I also think David Wise deserves a mention for his work with the Donkey Kong games.

And to put some Sonic representation, I gotta throw Jun Senoue and Tomoya Ohtani's names in there.

Grant Kirkhope.

His work on Banjo Kazooie alone would be enough to make him one of the best composers in the videogame scene, but he also did the phenomenal GoldenEye and Perfect Dark soundtracks, as well as Banjo Tooie and DK 64.

I don't know if Hiroyuki Sawano is considered a video game composer, since he has only worked on Xenoblade Chronicles X, as far as I know. If he is eligible he is also a strong contestant for the spot, for his work on that game alone.

Yeah Wise would be a definite contender for the top spot for me.

His work is just sublime.

Nobuo Uematsu for sure! His work on Final Fantasy has been phenomenal from the very first game (working with the limited range of the NES).

Nobuo Uematsu. Though there are many exceptional composers who have created wonderful and timeless pieces of music for decades now, I don't think anyone else has the kind of consistently high quality that Uematsu's music exhibits.

My two favorites are Nobuo Uematsu and Yoko Shimomura.

These two make up like 80% of my favorite soundtracks. 

Two of my favorite songs. 

I would go with Koji Kondo and David Wise. Grant Kirkhope is great too. Those are my top three. Their music is just so amazing and iconic to me.