Kohta Fukui is a Japanese programmer who worked at Nintendo from 1998-2004. He is likely no longer with the company as he has not been credited with a game since 2004. Fukui was a debugger for Metroid II: Return of Samus and a tool programmer for Metroid Fusion, and was credited under special thanks for Super Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission. Most of the games he was involved with were Game Boy titles.