Rick Bauer

Rick Bauer is a video game producer and former quality assurance tester at Nintendo of America. For 11 months between 2003 and May 2004, and then from October to December 2004, Bauer tested games at Nintendo (the four months in between were at Sucker Punch Productions). During the latter period at Nintendo, Bauer tested Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt. He is uncredited in both games. In 2005 he returned to Sucker Punch Productions, and became a producer in 2011. He continues to work there as of May 2018.