Keith Banta



Keith Banta is a project coordinator and former quality assurance analyst at Nintendo of America's Product Testing Department. Banta tested, among other games, Metroid: Other M and Kirby: Mass Attack, and is credited under special thanks in Mario Tennis Open. He has worked for Nintendo since 2003, first as a contract product tester specializing in compliance, network and data corruption testing, before being hired full time in 2009. He became a coordinator in 2013, and had the opportunity to lead a team of QA testers working on the Wii U's Software Development Kit. Banta has also acted as a software demonstrator and carrier at E3, PAX and other video game trade shows.