Dan Awesome

Dan Awesome was a product tester and later backup coordinator at Nintendo of America from 1999-2010. He was a testing coordinator for the Metroid Prime Trilogy. Despite working at NOA, Awesome's credit only appears in the PAL version of the game, along with Ed Ridgeway's. Awesome worked at Nintendo as an NOA employee since 2008, having been hired "just after completing a project at Retro Studios in Austin TX." This project is likely the Trilogy, as he is not credited in any of the original releases of the Prime games as general contract testers are not listed in credits of NOA titles. He had previously been an on-off product tester for about 9 years at Nintendo through Aerotek, a job placement agency during which time he, as stated from his LinkedIn profile "Tested over 100 titles, a large portion of which were AAA caliber. Examples of these are Zelda: Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario, Pokemon: Yellow, Ruby and Sapphire, Smash Brothers: Melee, Metroid Prime 1, 2 & 3 as well as the Trilogy, etc."
==External links==
*Current LinkedIn Profile
Category:Nintendo people
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