Tohru Okada, creator of PlayStation's iconic logo sound, has died

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Tohru Okada, creator of PlayStation's iconic logo sound, has died
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Tohru Okada, the musician and music producer responsible for creating PlayStation's iconic logo sound, has died aged 73…

Tohru Okada, the musician and music producer responsible for creating PlayStation's iconic logo sound, has died aged 73.

Okada's music career spanned decades and a wide variety of mediums including movies and anime, but he was perhaps best known in Japan as a founding member of, where he played alongside bandmate Keiichi Suzuki - who would go on to compose the music for Nintendo's Mother series. Okada's own ties to gaming came primarily through his successful career composing for commercials. He notably wrote music for a series of

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