The mid-to-late 1980s software releases for these platforms had music developed by more people with greater musical experience than before. Quality of composition improved noticeably, and evidence of the popularity of music of this time period remains even today. Composers who made a name for themselves with their software include Koichi Sugiyama ("Dragon Quest"), Nobuo Uematsu ("Final Fantasy"), Rob Hubbard ("Monty On the Run", "International Karate"), Koji Kondo ("Super Mario Bros.", "The Legend of Zelda"), Miki Higashino ("Gradius", "Yie-Ar Kung Fu", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"), Hiroshi Kawaguchi ("Space Harrier", "Hang-On", "Out Run"), Hirokazu Tanaka ("Metroid", "Kid Icarus", "EarthBound"), Martin Galway ("Daley Thompson's Decathlon", "Stryker's Run", "Times of Lore"), David Wise ("Donkey Kong Country"), Yuzo Koshiro ("Dragon Slayer", "Ys", "Shinobi", "ActRaiser", "Streets of Rage"), Mieko Ishikawa ("Dragon Slayer", "Ys"), and Ryu Umemoto (visual novels, shoot 'em ups). By the late 1980s, video game music was being sold as cassette tape soundtracks in Japan, inspiring American companies such as Sierra, Cinemaware and Interplay to give more serious attention to video game music by 1988. The Golden Joystick Awards introduced a category for "Best Soundtrack of the Year" in 1986, won by Sanxion.