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The U.S. National Video Game Team was founded on July 25, 1983 in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA by Walter Day and the [Twin Galaxies]Intergalactic Scoreboard.


Members

Walter Day served as the first team captain.

  • Billy Mitchell, Hollywood, Florida (Had five listings in Guinness that year, a record)
  • Steve Harris, Gladstone, Missouri (Later founded Electronic Gaming Monthly [EGM])
  • Jay Kim, Miami, Florida
  • Ben Gold, Dallas, Texas (Won history's first Video Game World Championship, televised by ABC's That's Incredible)
  • Tim McVey, Ottumwa, Iowa (Achieved history's first Billion-Point-Score on a video game.)

Additional members accepted in 1983:

  • Tom Asaki, Bozeman, Montana
  • Tim Collum, Boyd, Texas
  • Eric Ginner, Mountain View, California
  • Todd Walker, Milpitas, California
  • Mark Bersabe, San Jose, California
  • Jeff Peters, Etiwanda, California [1]

Additional members accepted in 1984:

  • Mark Hoff, Ottumwa, Iowa
  • Leo Daniels, Wilmington, North Carolina
  • Chris Emery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Additional members accepted in 1985:

  • Perry Rodgers, Seattle, Washington
  • Donn Nauert, Austin, Texas [2]
  • Dwayne Richard, Alberta, Canada

Additional members accepted in 1986 (Donn Nauert as Team Captain)

  • Gary Hatt, Ontario, California
  • Jim Allee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Brent Walker, Austin, Texas
  • Todd Rogers, Bridgeview, Illinois (First paid pro video game player)
  • Scott Rogers, Bridgeview, Illinois
  • Eric Gater, Oskaloosa, Iowa

Additional members accepted in 1994:

  • Terry "Trickman" Minnich, Lombard, Illinois
  • Ken "Sushi-X" Williams, Lombard, Illinois

Additional members accepted in 2005 (David Nelson as Team Captain)

  • David Nelson, Laconia, New Hampshire

New members accepted in 2015 reboot

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Owen Good (13 Apr 2012), There was Once a U.S. National Video Game Team, and This Guy Was Its Captain, Kotaku, retrieved 7 Aug 2013


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