A group of students at MIT, including Steve Russell, programmed a game called Spacewar on the then-new DEC PDP-1. Late nights are wasted by MIT students and staff playing the video game. This would be the first documented case of the Gamer.
Richard Nixon elected president of the United States.
Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, and releases Pong. A Californian college student John Smith convinces his date to try out the game, and she learns to enjoy it. First documented case of the Gamer Girlfriend.
One of John Smith’s drinking buddies rates Smith’s girlfriend "a ten at least, man". When Smith points out she likes Pong, buddy comments "that’s way out, man". Smith’s girlfriend officially becomes the first Hot Gamer Girlfriend.
The first commercially available role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, was published by Gary Gygax’s TSR.
Science fiction subculture merges with video game addicts and new fantasy roleplaying fans to create the unwashed mass known as Geeks. Census officals panic, as more and more intellegent males start to rapidly lose dating skills. Charts and graphs are made showing that, if the current rate of introverted nerd-osity continues, a full fifty percent of the American male population will never "get any".
Richard Nixon officially resigns as President of the United States.
Activision was created by disgruntled former Atari programmers. It was the first third-party developer of video games.
Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III.
The Office of Operations Coordination is formed to deal with the crash of the video game market and the cultural attacks on roleplaying.
Rona Jaffe published Mazes and Monsters, a thinly disguised fictionalization of the press exaggerations of the Egbert case. The book saw adaptation into a made-for-television movie starring Tom Hanks.
Rumours begin that Nixon has high level position within DoHGGA, running their black operations division. DoHGGA officials offer a press release denying such rumours and calling any who spread them "dicks". Media claims term was slip confirming Richard Nixon’s involvement.
DoHGGA appoints Ross as their new Press Secretary, under the Directorate for Policy, and has him start working a full defense for the ever-annoying "Nixon question".
The introduction of the Colecovision.
Patricia Pulling’s son Irvin "Bink" Pulling commits suicide. Pat Pulling founded Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons, known by its acronym BADD, which circulated her belief that role-playing games were linked to devil worship and suicide.
DoHGGA, who does not have a black operations subsection, does not send spies into Japan to bring their "cool stuff" to American shores.
Nintendo releases 8-bit console, the Famicom, known in the United States under the name Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). When media asks Press Secretary Ross about DoHGGA’s supposedly illegal interventions, Ross "totally blows them off".
Second edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Despite advances in roleplaying technology, gaming remains a mostly male oriented hobby. DoHGGA’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis is formed to investigate "what babes like" in hopes of integrating it into roleplaying.
DoHGGA’s non-existent black operations subsection does not instigate Operation White Wolf, an attemoted to use fledging cold fusion research to combine theatre, "dressing up", and horror movies into one "bad ass" roleplaying game.
The White Wolf company launched, specializes in gothic and horror themed games with strong narrative elements. White Wolf’s games are popular among Live Action Role Players. DoHGGA’s Press Secretary Ross denies existance of any black ops subsection.
The Office of Intelligence and Analysis expands to include Division of Hot Girl Screening, to screen the increasing number of female gamers to appropriate hot-ness. Sasha is appointed head, and accusations of corruption begin almost immediately.
Wizards of the Coast releases Magic: The Gathering under the collaboration of founder Peter Adkison and Richard Garfield.
Richard Nixon dies. DoHGGA officials plead with media to finally drop the gossip on the former president’s supposed black operations division. Reporters point out DoHGGA’s Directorate for Science and Technology could have Nixon’s brain alive in a jar and still in charge. One DoHGGA official, Press Secretary Ross, is arrested by local police for trying to strangle a reporter.
Wizards of the Coast purchases financially troubled TSR, with approval of DoHGGA’s Directorate for Policy. Congress demands an investigation into supposed corruption within DoHGGA, claiming money that was supposed to be going to "getting nerds laid" was going to better roleplaying games instead.
Sony releases the PlayStation 2. Internet website called "The Truth Is Out There" publishes expose that reveals every PS2 has circuitry that resembles Nixon’s brain. Less than a week later, the website is taken down, and the owners of the site go missing. DoHGGA denies everything even before being asked.
Sasha resigns as head of Division of Hot Girl Screening, which is audited by Intelligence and Analysis a week later and is found to be "run by a bunch of losers". Division is reorganized, with Caroline as it’s head.
The Office of Intelligence and Analysis is talked into opening the Division of Quality Assurance. Sasha is appointed head, and accusations of corruption begin almost immediately.
An illegal propaganda initiative known as "Mansel In Distress" begins somewhere on the eastern coast of the United States, and quickly spreads east to European shores. As a result, many highly qualified female combat commandos form Codename: Viking Horde under the Office of Operations Coordination.
Jeff takes over the Division of Statistical Coordination and immediately fires all his staff. When asked why, he just said "They were, like, totally doing it all wrong!". Hot Gamer Girlfriend wait-times jump to a record one hundred years.
A Division of Quality Assurance expense report is leaked, prompting new cries of budgetary responsibility within the Department.
Directorate for Science and Technology approve use of cutting edge podcasting technology to recruit both DoHGGA agents and hot gamer babes. Gamer: The Podcasting launches to critical success.
Rumours of a subversive organization surface. Calling itself the World Republic of Nihilistic Gamers, it spreads propaganda of it’s move toward "shnotes", and begins to actively recruit members.