The trio were also given freedom to work on the music of Square games Bushido Blade and Driving Emotion Type-S. Ex- Taito composer Yasuhisa Watanabe later joined the sound team. The console versions were their first game projects to feature live instrumentation. This led to the trio composing for Street Fighter EX along with its sequels. Saso and Aihara also joined Arika desiring to continue working with him, although Sano remained at Namco. Hosoe left Namco to join Arika in 1996, feeling that his salary would not increase any further. He also composed for Cyber Sled earlier that year, which he considers to be his greatest work, although it received a mixed reception from critics, who criticized it for being repetitive. The success of Ridge Racer has since led to him receiving many offers from companies to compose similar music. While racing games at this point often featured jazz fusion music, the majority of tracks in the game are dance music. The following year, he composed for Ridge Racer alongside Saso and Nobuyoshi Sano. In 1992, Hosoe composed for Fighter & Attacker alongside Aihara, his first game project to utilize dance music. In 1990, he composed for Galaxian3: Project Dragoon, working with Ayako Saso and Takayuki Aihara for the first time he found himself busy with lots of other work, hence other tracks were composed by the other two composers. He started off tracks by programming a rhythm into the sequencer, then playing melodies with a keyboard on-top, and later adding new parts or re-writing existing parts. This led to him composing for Dragon Spirit, as well as various other arcade games such as Final Lap, Ordyne and Dirt Fox. After showing his music to fellow co-workers, he was reassigned the position of a composer in 1986. During this time, he merely created music as a hobby in his spare time. Hosoe joined Namco in 1985 as a part-time game tester and CG artist. After graduating high school, he studied computer graphics at Japan Electronics College. At the time, he did not have a serious interest in music and received low grades in music classes. During his teenage years, he played bass in a Yellow Magic Orchestra tribute band. He also listened to electronic music by artists such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra. At the age of 8, he bought Isao Tomita's album The Planets. His family moved to Chōfu while he was in first grade of elementary school. Hosoe was born on Februin Gero, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. 1.3 Arika and SuperSweep (1996–present).