He founded the music production company Brainstorm Co. Ltd. in 1999, where he has most notably worked on the Lumines series and Rodea the Sky Soldier.
Although there was pressure at the company for the game to surpass Street Fighter II, he did not take much inspiration from its music, and found it challenging to output good sound from the cabinet speakers.
Following his work on Virtua Fighter 3 with Mitsuyoshi and Fumio Ito, Nakamura left Sega in 1996 and joined Dream Factory.
[4] After leaving Dream Factory in 1999, he founded the music production company Brainstorm Co. Ltd. One of the first projects he worked on after becoming independent was Kengo: Master of Bushido.
[6] Nakamura primarily used Reason and Ableton Live software to compose the songs, finding the latter particularly suited for its interactive music.
[7] Nakamura composed for the game Rodea the Sky Soldier, which was developed between 2010 and 2011 by Yuji Naka's company Prope, but not released until 2015.
Naka initially envisioned the soundtrack to have an orchestral sound, but after Nakamura played a prototype he felt that an acoustic guitar accompaniment would fit well with the concept of dashing in the sky.