NOA Product Testing Department

This article is written from the Real Life point of view

The NOA Product Testing Department is the debugging and game testing division within Nintendo of America that tests and debugs Nintendo-published video games. It has debugged several Metroid games, including Metroid: Zero Mission, Metroid Prime Pinball, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Metroid Prime: Federation Force, Metroid: Samus Returns, Metroid Dread and Metroid Prime Remastered. NOA Product Testing and other international debug departments of Nintendo, including Mario Club, collaborated to debug Federation Force.

List of employees

These employees were credited in Metroid: Zero Mission and most likely does not represent the full number of employees:

• Yoshinobu Mantani
• Kyle Hudson
• Eric Bush
• Randy Shoemake
• Rich Richardson
• Thomas Hertzog
• Michael Leslie
• Kathy Huguenard
• David Hunziker
• Chris Needham
• Mika Kurosawa