The U.S. National Video Game Team was founded on July 25, 1983 in Ottumwa, Iowa

Ottumwa, Iowa

Ottumwa is a city in and the county seat of Wapello County, Iowa, United States. The population was 24,998 at the 2000 census. It is located in the southeastern part of Iowa, and the city is split into northern and southern halves by the Des Moines River....

, USA by Walter Day

Walter Day

Walter Aldro Day, Jr. is the founder of Twin Galaxies, an international organization based in Fairfield, Iowa, that tracks high score statistics for the worldwide electronic video gaming hobby...

 and the Twin Galaxies

Twin Galaxies

Twin Galaxies is an American organization that tracks video game world records and conducts a program of electronic-gaming promotions. It operates the Twin Galaxies website and publishes the Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, with the Arcade Volume released on June...

 Intergalactic Scoreboard.

Members

Walter Day was the Team Captain and the first five members chosen by Twin Galaxies

Twin Galaxies

Twin Galaxies is an American organization that tracks video game world records and conducts a program of electronic-gaming promotions. It operates the Twin Galaxies website and publishes the Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, with the Arcade Volume released on June...

 for the team were:

• Billy Mitchell
  Billy Mitchell (gamer)
  Billy L. Mitchell, born July 16, 1965, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, is best known for recording high scores in classic video games from the Golden Age of Arcade Games. He has been claimed by some as the "greatest arcade-video-game player of all time". His achievements include the first perfect score...
  
  , 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-TV'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, MT
• Tim Collum, Boyd, TX
• Eric Ginner, Mt. View, CA
• Todd Walker, Milpitas, CA
• Mark Bersabe, San Jose, CA
• Jeff Peters, Etiwanda, California

Additional members accepted in 1984:

• Mark Hoff, Ottumwa, IA
• Leo Daniels, Wilmington, NC
• Chris Emery, Canada

Additional members accepted in 1985:

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

Additional members accepted in 1986:

• Gary Hatt, Ontario, California
• Jim Allee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Brent Walker, Austin, TX
• Todd Rogers
  Todd Rogers (gamer)
  Todd Rogers is an American video game competitor living in Brooksville, Florida who gained fame in the early 1980s for his many world record high scores and for his expertise on Activision games...
  
  , Bridgeview, Illinois (First paid pro video game player)
• Eric Gater, Oskaloosa, IA

Additional members accepted in 1994:

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

Additional members accepted in 2005:

• David Nelson, Laconia, NH