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Ken Kato is a programmer and tester at Nintendo, whose work has mostly been on Nintendo DS and Wii games. Kato is credited under NCL special thanks in both Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Metroid Prime Trilogy, and was part of technical support for Metroid: Other M. His other credited games include WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Bird & Beans and Paper Airplane Chase.