He later resumed his classical studies in high school and would go on to major in composition at the Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts.
[2] Following his graduation, he briefly worked on producing music for radio and television.
Among his classmates, Kodaka was known to spend much of his spare time in arcades, and this ultimately attracted Sunsoft to hire him as a video game composer.
[1] He is best known for writing the soundtracks for Journey to Silius, Batman (NES, Genesis and Game Boy versions), Blaster Master, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, the Albert Odyssey series, Super Fantasy Zone, and a few other titles.
[3] He was almost always assisted on his NES projects by sound programmers Nobuyuki Hara, Shinichi Seya, and sometimes Naohisa Morota.