Mario Club
Not to be confused with the Japanese TV program, Super Mario Club that broadcast from 1990 to 2001
Mario Club Co. Ltd (Japanese: マリオクラブ株式会社) is a subsidiary of Nintendo that conducts testing on video games and works on debugging them. The company was formally a group within Nintendo for years, but as of July 2009 the company officially became a subsidiary. The current president is Kaoru Takemura. [1]
Mario Club is known under a number of different but similar names, including Super Mario Club, NCL Super Mario Club, SMC Debug Team and Super Mario Club Debug Team. [2]
Super Mario Club worked on debugging Densetsu no Starfy 4 and the Japanese version of The Legendary Starfy. The North American version of The Legendary Starfy does not credit Super Mario Club, but rather NOA Product Testing Department. Super Mario Club are listed under special thanks in the Game Boy Advance The Legendary Starfy games and presumably debugged them too.
