Timeline

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The following is a timeline of Genwunner-adjacent events in the Genwunner universe because it's all so confusing and it would be better to organize it. Y'know? It's annoying having to look through tons of other pages to make sure it all makes sense. 
== Pre-1990s ==
* 1835. The city of Moralton was founded.
* 1930. Grandad, Famous lost media researcher, Was born.
* 1932. Grandpa Phil, World renowned Genwunner, Was born.
* 1941. The last known copy of the arcade game "Monogamous" was destroyed.
* 1958. Stu "Footman" Pickles, The famous Smash 64 player, Was born.
* 1962. The Black Mesa Research Facility develops the first Fast Universal Recon Suit.
* 1968. Sir William Geewun IV was born.
* 1971. Count Chocula cereal is introduced, With Count Chocula instantly becoming a main staple of horror and becoming a horror icon.
* 1980. In response to the game "Dungeons and Dragons" alongside other arguably not wholesome things in pop culture, Moral Watchdog groups grew in popularity originating from Moralton.
* 1984. Transformers G1 starts.
* 1987. Alex Yiik, The greatest Clone Fan of all, Was born.
* 1989. The first episode of The Simpsons airs, Drawing concerns from moral watchdog groups about the character "Bart"
* 1989. The International Council of Simpsons Reviewers is founded by critics in order to make sure episodes aren't too "Mean spirited"
== The 90s ==
* 1990. Carl was born.
* 1991. Critics of The Simpsons grew more vocal, Leading to the removal of the character "Bart" and him being replaced with the characters Constance, Gumbly and Graggle. Ratings soared with this new wholesome and morally-conscious twist on the Simpsons which lead to what fans call the "Simpsons Golden Age".
* 1992. The arcade game "Mortal Kombat" was released, Leading to a huge push from parent groups to have it removed from all arcades.
* 1992. Grandad famously defends "Mortal Kombat" from critics, Bringing awareness to the concept of Lost Media for thousands of viewers.
* 1993. The first episode of Veggietales was released.
* 1993. The Internet becomes more available to more people, Leading to games actually being able to have communities.
* 1993. Transformers G2 started, Leading to the creation of the Geewunner faction ran by Sir William Geewun IV.
* 1996. Gen 1 is released in Japan.
* 1996. The N64 came out.
* 1996. Super Mario 64 comes out, Leading to the phrase "2401" gaining popularity.
* 1996. Grandpa Phil stars in a TV show called "Hey Arnold!".
* 1997. Due to a mixup in research, The Black Mesa Research Facility declared the "Piss Dimension" to be a looping game of Doom 2
* 1998. Gen 1 is released in the US, Leading to the ultimate 90s experience.
* 1998. Grandpa Phil grows in popularity in the Pokemon community for his guides, Walkthroughs and competitive theorycrafting.
* 1998. Grandpa Phil (Allegedly) becomes the first US player to obtain Mew. This is widely debated if he was truly the first however.
* 1998. Carl, The quirky company defender, Was born
* 1999. Futurama's first episode airs. It's a good show that gets people in the y2k mood.
* 1999. Grandpa Phil is harassed by angry parents for wearing his Trainer outfit while in Moralton.
* 1999. Grandpa Phil hosts a New Years Eve Gen 1 tournament.
== Y2K ==
* 2000. The new millennium starts.
* 2000. Pokemon Gen 2 is announced.
* 2000. Sir William Geewun IV. sees the backlash and creates the Geewun Association of Yorkshire for Gen 1 fans out of sympathy. Grandpa Phil quickly joins the community.
* 2000. Grandpa Phil creates the first petition to stop Gen 2 gaining over 500 signatures.
* 2000. Lyman begins writing blog posts about Gen 1.
* 2000. Grandpa Phil is given leadership of the Geewun Association of Yorkshire.
* 2000. Grandpa Phil and Lyman team up and come up with the term "Genwunner" to be used to describe a fan of Gen 1. They also rename the community the "Genwunner Association of Yorkshire" with the help of a petition.
* 2000. Windows ME is released with critical acclaim.
* 2000. Pokemon Gold and Silver are released, Starting Gen 2.
* 2000. Moral watchdog groups are upset by Gen 2 alongside Genwunners but for drastically different reasons. The morality enthusiasts immediately steal Grandpa Phil's idea and make their own petitions to stop Gen 2 which get thousands of signatures in the first week alone.
* 2001. Howard DeVille starts the first Gen 2 community which quickly grows in popularity.
* 2001. Grandpa Boris starts playing Gen 2 and likes it.
* 2001. The third game in Gen 2 comes out.
* 2001. Grandpa Phil holds a protest outside of his local game store alongside his fellow Genwunners. This gets them all banned from the establishment and popularizes the phrase "Not real Pokemon" being used to describe Pokemon that aren't from Gen 1.
* 2001. Due to the rising popularity of protests against Gen 2, Game stores are quick to ban Genwunners and anyone with a giant picket sign outside. This move was seen as controversial but understandable by most gamers at the time.
* 2001. Grandpa Phil starts his rap career.
* 2001. Grandpa Phil releases his first album.
* 2001. The Gamecube is released, Being the ultimate platform for Nicktoons and Zelda games.
* 2001. The original Xbox is released, Being the ultimate platform for not only Shrek but also Half Life 2.
* 2001. Alex Yiik plays his first clone game. Jurassic Creatures XXIV.
* 2002. Mei Lee attempts to take over the Gen 2 fanbase but fails.
* 2002. The G4 TV channel launched, Making being a dudebro Pilgrimage retro gamer the cool thing but not to the point where it was mainstream so it was actually cool and not just for normies.
* 2002. Pokemon Gen 3 starts.
* 2003. Grandpa Boris is found to be a huge Gen 2 Fanatic, Causing Grandpa Phil to reject him and act like he wasn't his friend for the past over a decade.
* 2003. The further rise of the internet leads to major backlash against moral watchdogs and their associated groups.
* 2003. The TV channel Spike TV debuts and helps The Pilgrimage keep growing and growing.
* 2003. Grandpa Phil hosts his first live musical performance at Yorkshire.
* 2003. Tragedy occurs as Terrence's Pokemon Red save file with his Level 100 Raticate is "Accidentally" deleted by Mac. Terrence was too heartbroken to play Gen 1 again after that.
* 2003. Madden 2004 wins 2003 Game Of The Year on Spike TV
* 2004. GBA Video is released.
* 2004. The Gen 3 remakes of the Gen 1 games come out. This leads to division between many Genwunner groups as to if these games have the Gen 1 spirit or not and if they should be counted for being a Genwunner. This leads to Remakewunners existing.
* 2004. The AVGN uploads the first episode of his new show.
* 2004. GTA San Andreas comes out. Moral Watchdog groups are upset by this.
* 2004. A day later it is revealed that a fair handful of copies of GTA San Andreas were haunted by a shapeshifting space demon that personalizes its role in the game depending on whoever plays it, Manifesting itself in the game as various characters that don't normally appear in the game at all. All copies of the game in Moralton were immediately recalled and this gave Moral Watchdog groups the edge they needed to get public opinion back on their side by doubling down on demon-related content.
* 2004. Grandpa Boris passed on.
* 2004. Cleveland starts getting trained by Cake the Cat to become annoying and obtains his stand 「IT'S EVERYDAY BRO」. Due to The Pilgrimage however, Cake and Cleveland were brushed off and ignored for being annoying trolls.
* 2004. Half Life 2 is released, Bringing a new age of gaming along with it. There was also this release week partnership deal with the Shrek movies at select Blockbusters.
* 2004. World of Warcraft is released
* 2004. The DS is released, Bringing gaming (And The Pilgrimage) to a vast new audience. Everyone is unanimously happy with this. 
* 2004. Over the holidays, Non-gamers take time to learn and appreciate gamer culture after getting a DS and are welcomed with open arms.
* 2004. The year 2004 was declared one of the best years for gaming ever.
* 2004. The first annual Genwunner Awards show is hosted by Grandpa Phil, Becoming a yearly tradition ever since.
* 2005. Grandpa Phil starts smacking the consoles out of the hands of people playing non-Gen 1 Pokemon games. Due to this and other complications, He does not produce any new rap songs this year and his only 2005 album is simply a collection of demos of his more popular songs.
* 2005. Moral watchdog groups know they're losing ground and use the power of popular opinion to make 2005 huge for parent groups by doubling down on protesting over video games and hating on GTA San Andreas in particular. It is estimated that over 500,000 copies of various disk-based video games were destroyed in 2005 alone.
* 2005. The Xbox 360 comes out, Eventually becoming THE dudebro cod lobby voice chat retro gamer awesomebro zombie bacon console of the century.
* 2006. The 2006 Ohio Pokemon K-Mart Championship takes place. Due to Cleveland's stand however, All participants had their Pokemon replaced with Bad Eggs.
* 2006. Pokemon Gen 4 starts as the games are released in Japan.
* 2006. The Lucario Controversy occurs and Grandpa Phil's allegiance to Gen 1 is brought into question by critics.
* 2006. The Burning Legion from World of Warcraft starts recruiting more members for their next plan for world domination.
* 2006. The Burning Legion from World of Warcraft stops a moral watchdog parent group protest and curses all the protestors with demons by forcing them to look at the box art for Dungeons and Dragons. Public opinion sways and people rapidly lose faith in moral watchdog groups as a result of seeing them lose debates against literal demons who possess them and make them work for The Burning Legion from World of Warcraft.
* 2006. New Super Mario Bros DS comes out. Being THE definitive Mario game for Pilgrimage-adjacent pseudo-retro gaming. Everyone unanimously loves it and it leads to the Campbell's Tomato Soup/GTA San Andreas/New Super Mario Bros promotional crossover tie-in sponsorship event now taking advantage of the defeat of the moral watchdog groups who hated on GTA San Andreas.
* 2006. The Morality Golden Age ends and people start liking more unwholesome content like Doom 3 and GTA. Internet edgelords also start talking shit about wholesome family-friendly moral content like post-Bart episodes of The Simpsons and The Berenstein Bears which leads to the ultimate rise of internet critics.
* 2006. Roblox is apparently released.
* 2006. Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) is released.
* 2007. The emo subculture starts drastically growing in popularity.
* 2007. Pokemon Gen 4 is released in America.
* 2007. The Genfourmer community is organized but without a leader. This is blasphemy so over the course of a few months due to how long everything in the Gen 4 games takes, The Gen 4 community set up a tournament to determine the rightful leader so everyone can get their Pokemon team ready.
* 2007. Terrence finishes Gen 4 and walks all the way to Wisconsin to receive Giratina from a Pokemon event at a K-Mart.
* 2007. The Transformers movie is released. This eventually lead to massive backlash against Geewunners and resulted in Genwunners doing their part to protect the Geewunners who got them this far.
* 2007. Poof from Fairly Odd Parents was executed by Black Mesa Research Facility personnel.
* 2007. The first episode of Wordgirl is aired.
* 2007. Cleveland arrives at a Genwunner meeting and uses his stand to force all the Genwunners to play modern Pokemon which resulted in the Genwunners there being temporarily kicked out of the Genwunner community for a little while. This lead to controversy surrounding the Genwunners being kicked out but Grandpa Phil insisted that kicking them out was the only way to preserve the spirit of Gen 1.
* 2007. Portal is released alongside The Orange Box. This lead to "The cake is a lie" becoming a popular phrase that boosted The Pilgrimage to unseen new levels of popularity by converting untold thousands to awesomebro gamers and was also well received by the emo subculture.
* 2007. The Burning Legion from World of Warcraft begin their demonic world-domination plan, Starting The Burning Crusade as heroes try to stop Fel Lord Skinner's powerful demon armies.
* 2007. The golden age of The Pilgrimage and retro dudebro zombie bacon omg epic geek culture gaming begins as decreed by Scott "The GAMER" Pilgrim.
* 2007. The #1 holiday gift of the year was XBOX LIVE.
* 2008. The Simpsons Spring Break TV event happens, Airing tons of classic Simpsons episodes with brand new bumpers made in the style of older seasons. This was considered one of the best things FOX has done with the series and is widely compared to the Fortnite Season OG event.
* 2008. Tons of Cartoon Network Cartoons, Simpsons Characters and Nicktoons all train at Shattrath and plan to defeat The Burning Legion from World of Warcraft leading to an amazing Summer season where they fiercely battled The Burning Legion from World of Warcraft. The main Summer anthem was Everlong by The Foo Fighters.
* 2008. Illidan (Who has a name that doesn't lend itself well to Fandom's default font) is defeated, Somehow securing the victory of the heroes against The Burning Legion from World of Warcraft. Fel Lord Skinner goes back to the drawing board with his world domination plans.
* 2008. Right when the heroes were all weakened and celebrating their victory, The Lich King uses his ghouls and crates to zombify the Nicktoons. Notable zombified Nicktoons include Cosmo, Wanda, Bessie, Fanboy and Chum Chum. There were rumors that Spongebob was also zombified but this was never confirmed.
* Cartoon Network characters fight off The Lich King's zombified minions and he challenges them all to fight him at Northrend, Starting off the events of Wrath of The Lich King (Which should have its own timeline page instead of using this one).
* 2008. Left 4 Dead 1 is released, Being instantly crowned the scariest horror game EVER and leading to pretty much everyone calling the year Boo-Thousand Eight due to how scary L4D1 was.
* 2008. Due to Jerry being deemed "Too big to ask Santa for presents", He gets his father-in-law to help him with the creation of the holiday Sciencemas.
* 2009. Pokemon Platinum is released in America.
* 2009. The tournament to determine who the leader of the Genfourmers takes place, Resulting in Terrence being crowned the leader. Better late than never, I suppose.
* 2009. Plants VS Zombies was released, Tying in with L4D1 perfectly as Source engine content creators mixed the franchises in their skit parodies.
* 2009. The Lucario Controversy reaches its peak as Grandpa Phil begins shouting at his fellow Genwunners and storms out afterwards.
* 2009. Just a day after Grandpa Phil lashed out, He announced that he would be taking a break from his rap career for an unspecified amount of time. This ends up being until 2012.
* 2009. A sequel to Left 4 Dead is announced, Leading to protests and boycotts from the hardcore horror audience who didn't like the new direction the series was taking. This was the L4D community's version of the same thing that created the Genwunner community.
* 2009. The first episode of The Annoying Orange is uploaded.
* 2009. Jerry Mander submits his design for a "Robux Generator" to a local awards show. Within a day, The generator breaks due to hordes of various people trying to steal it.
* 2009. Left 4 Dead 2, The famed sequel to L4D1, Is released. It was more of a fun arcadey game than a game that expanded upon the absolute sheer horror L4D1 had. This made L4D2 VERY popular with The Pilgrimage, The Emo Subculture and pretty much everyone else adjacent to those.
* 2009. Scott "The Retro Gamer" Pilgrim recaps the year's most notable gaming news and says 2009 was a great year for The Pilgrimage, Especially with the rise of Youtube and the niche site Reddit for dudebro gamer epic bacon discussion. He gives awards for categories such as "Best Xbox Live Trash Talk" and "Most retro cosplay" before telling the other gamers more info about the upcoming game he was going to star in next year. 
* 2010. Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver are released in America.
* 2010. Grandpa Phil starts the "Grandpa Phil's Genwun News" podcast.
* 2010. Gen 2 Fanatics attempt to make a peace treaty with Genfourmers but are rejected and called "Dorks" by Terrence.
* 2010. The Scott Pilgrim game is released, Quickly becoming popular with The Pilgrimage (Duh) despite being digital-only at the time. At this point in time, Digital games were seen as a fun novelty because nobody stopped to think about post-Pilgrimage company behavior such as shutting things down for no good reason.
* 2010. The Sciencemas 2010 Clone Game Jam starts, Resulting in tons of hipsters creating their own Clone Games for the contest. 
* 2010. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm releases. This expansion goes WAY too overboard with the MAD (Cartoon Network TV Show) promotional tie-in crossover and Cake the Cat REALLY begins to sink her claws into the game as it gets worse and worse.
* 2011. The Retail Roundup is founded by Woody the Cowboy in order to dunk on the Vanilla WoW fans who hate the new expansion. Cake the Cat instantly joins alongside thousands of retail stans. 
* 2011. Pokemon Black and White are released in America. Due to the intense criticism from Pokemon fans, The Genfiver fanbase had to be created earlier than normal in order to counter the hate. 
* 2011. Due to all the rushing to set up the fanbase to defend the games, The Genfiver community settled on appointing Bessie as the leader due to the fact that she was the only one to have completed the post-game content at that point. This was done despite the fact that at this point she was literally a zombie who was controlled by the now defeated Lich King. 
* 2011. The 3DS was released. Not many people knew it at the time but the 3DS would end up playing a big role in Gen 1 history later with the Virtual Console rereleases.
* 2011. Bessie notices the resilience of Genwunners and how they fought back against similar criticisms and reached out to the Genwunners for an official truce between the two fanbases. Grandpa Phil accepts and the two fanbases work together to defend their games against Genfourmers and other haters.
* 2011. Wars are waged in places like GameFAQs over if the Gen 5 games are good with the Genfivers and Genwunners defending the games and the Genfourmers criticizing them. Despite the insurmountable odds, Terrence leads his Gen 4 fans and continues to sway the public opinion against Gen 5.
* 2011. The Nicktoons Zombified bumpers air for the first time, Recapping the events of the WOTLK pre-patch and scaring everyone who saw them.
* 2011. Skyrim was released. This is HUGE for The Pilgrimage as it's an example of a modern game that had a similar spirit as the Pilgrimage with the epic Space Core Brony TF2 addons and endless supply of jokes such as "Arrow to the knee" that fans of The Pilgrimage would repeat regularly.
* 2011. Minecraft version 1.0 was released after years of development and alpha/beta versions. The early Minecraft days were great for the Pilgrimage and other retro gamers (Even though the game just came out at the time, They didn't care).
* 2011. Terrence attempts to interrupt the Genwunner Awards in an attempt to get them to stop supporting Gen 5 by taking over the livestream set up for people who couldn't attend. Halfway through the awards show, The stream switched to Terrence telling the Genwunners to end their support for the Genfivers and showing off how he got his Genfourmers to fill the forums with Gen 1 hate while the awards were going on. This resulted in Grandpa Phil releasing an official statement saying that Gen 4 sucked and that he's not going to stop helping the Genfivers defeat the Genfourmers.
* 2012. Infamous Gen 4 defender Brad leaves the Genfourmer community to join the Retail Roundup. The "Brad Clause" is made for competitive battling in honor of him.
* 2012. The SOPA 2012 protests start.
* 2012. Word of the apocalypse starts spreading, Leading to tons of factions working together for the first time ever in order to try to stop the 2012 apocalypse.
* 2012. Kony 2012 starts.
* 2012. The REAL golden age of retro gaming starts.
* 2012. Modern Simpsons becomes good for the first time in years... For a short while, Anyway.
* 2012. Grandpa Phil returns to rapping and releases an entire album based off of the popularity of Pokemon themed creepypastas.
* 2012. Something happens and tons of snack cakes stop being made for a good while.
* 2012. The AVGN switches to HD for his videos. This noticeably coincides with some fans finding that the spirit of the show is lacking nowadays.
* 2012. Cake the Cat starts putting long cringe copypastas in the descriptions of dudebro retro game song parodies like "OMG WARNING UNFUNNY OLD INTERNET JOKES KEEP READING" before going on a long tangent about how you should feel guilty for liking the song before promoting the holiday Sciencemas since she KNOWS that Santa isn't getting her any presents for this. This surprisingly works out in her favor and TONS of people start celebrating Sciencemas because of this.
* 2012. The apocalypse is prevented after Old Spice harnessed the powers of Pilgrimage retro gaming.
* 2012. Many fans of The Pilgrimage switch to Sciencemas due to the HUGE amount of promotion on various websites like the then-niche Reddit and Youtube. It also helps that it kinda reminds them of the Portal games.
* 2013. Gen 6 is announced.
* 2013. A lot of English speaking players discover the game Winnie The Pooh's Home Run Derby.
* 2013. Bioshock Infinite was released.
* 2013. MOBA e-sports grow greatly in popularity, Which was novel at the time but looking back on it with all the microtransactions and toxicity, Oof.
* 2013. Gone Home was released.
* 2013. Gen 6 is released.
* 2014. Five Nights At Freddy's was released.
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