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Phil Honeywell is a former product testing technician at Nintendo of America. He worked there from 2003-2007, after previously working for them in the 1990s as a game play counselor for the Nintendo Power Hotline, as well as a special events coordinator. Honeywell was a product tester for Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and several other Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance games. The last game he tested was Odama. He left Nintendo in 2007 to become an IS coordintor at Washington State University.