Timeline of MFGG

The Timeline of MFGG is a chronological list of significant events that have happened since the inception of Mario Fan Games Galaxy.

2000

• Thunder Dragon creates the Bowser Technologies website.

2001

• July 9 - Mario Fan Games Galaxy is formed, Bowser Technologies is closed.
• Supertoad2k, Kyle and Nite Shadow are made administrators.
• Fireball20k and DJ Yoshiman are promoted to moderators.
• The MFGG banner is changed to adequately conceal the moderators and admins of MFGG on the right, not seen very well, prompting MFGGers to question why the Shy Guy is confused.

2002

• April 1 - April Fool's Prank. Forum changed to "Wario Fan Games Galaxy" by Kritter.
• April
  • Great Kyle Flamewar.
  • Kritter becomes Administrator, replacing Kyle.
• May
  • MugenMidget discloses the location of the "Secret Page," a page on the MFGG website no one had seen before, but was alluded to by Thunder Dragon on several occasions. The secret page can be found here: http://web.archive.org/web/20020617010255/http://fanmade.emulationzone.org/mfgg/mfgg1/secret.htm
  • Several MFGGers start a badge fad. The badges were created by the MFGGers themselves, for specific reasons, and distributed for members to put in their signatures, accordingly to the badge creator's purpose. Actual forum badges would not be seen again until the Invision rendition of the forums would be created, allowing such a possibility.
  • SFGHQ vs. MFGG Forum War.
• July 9 - MFGG's 1st birthday.

2003

• February - VBulletin version of message boards is opened. Fireball3k and DJ Yoshiman lose their moderator powers as a result. Nite Shadow loses his administration position as well, though Supertoad2k is bumped down to a moderator.
• Willy Goldwater becomes host of MFGG.
• July 9 - MFGG's 2nd birthday.
• October 11th - Invision version of message boards is opened, replacing the VBulletin one, though all previous members save for a few did not register until the 13th.
• November
  • Blaze Hedgehog releases Super Mario Blue Twilight. The game eventually gets showcased on "Attack of the Show," a show on the television network G4. The show then reveals a link to MFGG, marking the first and only time MFGG has been showcased on television.
  • LAMGS is created.
  • Cutman introduces the member base to The Face with an innocent-looking post and picture.
  • The MFGG banner is changed again, to now include more MFGGers, and no longer denotes members with special privileges.

2004

• February - Arts Board is opened.
• ShadowMan is made Administrator.
• March 20 - 2004 MFGG Awards
• April 1 - April Fool's Prank. Forum is changed to "Waligie Fangames Place" for a day.
• Kritter resigns as Administrator of the forums.
• July 9 - MFGG's 3rd birthday.
• September 22 - SonicProject is made a Global Moderator.
• October - Parakarry is made Site Staff.

2005

• February - First Minigame Competition.
• February 28 - Trasher and FanGuy are hired as moderators.
• April 1 - April Fool's Prank. Forum is changed to "Choza Espanol de Pollo Galaxias Fangames de Tio Billy" for a day. Sometimes regarded as MFGG's best April Fools prank ever.
• May - E3 forum opened for E3 2005.
• July 7 - SonicProject resigns as Global Moderator.
• July 9 - MFGG's 4th birthday.
• August 2 - Gehn's 233rd Age forum opened by ShadowMan.
• August - Operation CLAM begins.
• October - "Mario Fan Game Gallery" appears on the American TV Channel, G4's "Attack of The Show" advertising the recently released Super Mario: Blue Twilight DX. Viewers from the show appear on MFGG, overloading the server cutting off MFGG for a few days.
• December
  • The PPP exploded, due to it's post count.
  • 2005 MFGG Awards.

2006

• February - SPECTRE sub-forum opened in the Pointless Post Palace.
• February/March/April 1 - New warn system instated.
• April 1 - April Fool's Prank. Forum is changed to All About Beards for a day.
• April - Forum Games forum is merged with the Pointless Post Palace.
• April 17 - Jeff Silvers and Jak are hired as moderators.
• April 18 - Black Squirrel is hired as Site Staff.
• April 20 - Phishfest.
• April 29 - This version of the MFGG Wiki is opened.
• May - E3 forum opened for E3 2006.
• June 8 - 2 Pointless Post Palace Pruning, Stupidity Discharge.
• June 16 - Donkey Kong meets Mega Man sub-forum opened.
• June 21 - MFGG 2.0 Main Site is opened.
• July 9 - MFGG's 5th birthday.
• July 12 - Captain Jeff Silvers begins MFGG Wrestling.
• August 9 - General Friendliness sub-forum is opened in the Arts Board.
• August 16 - Warn Logs become public.
• August 18 - ITF we are muscular trapeze artists created. Attack of the Village People.
• August 31 - 3 Pointless Post Palace Pruning, Pointless Supernova.
• October 27 - 2006 MFGG Awards.
• November 20 - Wii Discussion forum opened.
• December 16 - Pointless Post Palace closed for 3 days.

2007

• January 28 - Tragic, Kitsune Yamato, and Admiral Delmore are made Site Staff.
• February 5 - N-Finity, webmaster of The Shy Guy Kingdom, passes away from a diabetic coma. The first recorded death in the Mario fangaming community.
• March 28 - A Day That Will Live in Infamy.
• April 1 - April Fool's Prank. Letters were removed from usernames randomly, and three joke submissions appear on the main site. Delmore is fired from Site Staff. Zombie Week begins.
• April 3 - 4chan Attack.
• April 26 - Ylle is made Site Staff.
• June 18 - ShadowMan resigns as Administrator of the forums.
• Trasher is upgraded from Global Moderator to administrator.
• June 21 - Message boards are re-structured. General Friendliness moved to Archives. News Forum and Worthless Post Palace opened.
• June 22 - New Moderators are hired. Jeff Silvers, FanGuy and Jak are upgraded to Global Moderators. Kommandant Dragmire becomes Global Moderator. Joey becomes General Chat moderator, Yoshiman becomes Fangame Discussion moderator, Rage becomes Arts Board moderator and Tragic becomes PPP moderator. Black Squirrel, Hatman and Jas are also made PPP Mods, but with fewer powers.
• Toodles Team is made Site Staff, replacing Ylle.
• July 5 - Custom Word Filter system created. Disabling the profanity filter for your account is now possible.
• July 9 - MFGG's 6th birthday.
• July 16 - Hatman resigns from his position as a Pointless Post Palace Forum Moderator.
• July 28 - Toodles Team resigns as Site Staff.
• September 6 - Worthless Post Palace is removed.
• September 15 - Night of the Living "Dupes".
• September 19 - Bacteriophage and Press Start are made Site Staff. Age Restriction rule is dropped.
• October 24 - First Nintendo Community Fangame Convention is held.
• October 27 - MFGG started obsessively tracking its timeline.
• November 14 - Retriever II resigns as forum administrator and now falls under the new Server Admin user group. Admiral Delmore and Stanley are re-instated from their requested permabans. Trasher resigns as administrator as a result. Joey is also demoted from General Chat moderator to member status. Yoshiman and Jas are upgraded to Administrator status. Pointless Post Palace is closed by Klobber permanently.
• November 15 - Tragic is promoted to Global Moderator status.
• November 17 - Sub-forums Sprite Rips (Fangame Discussion) and WIP/Sketch (Arts Board) are created.
• November 18 - Forum Rules are modified to create version 5.0.
• November 22 - The PPP is deleted, Casual Conversation Castle takes its place.
• November 25 - First Music Competition begins.
• December 2 - Bacteriophage becomes CCC Mod.
• December 3 - Tragic declares himself a Badge Moderator.
• December 4 - The first MFGGcret Santa begins.
• December 5 - General Friendliness forum is re-opened and placed in the Dungeon below the CCC. Tragedy Anne becomes Moderator of the forum under the new title Forum Janitor.
• December 12 - Forum Games is re-opened and placed in the Dungeon below the General Friendliness forum.
• December 14 - Trasher resigns from the Site Staff.
• December 17 - The Community Fangame Project is created, and enters the planning stage.
• December 29 - The Forum Games forum is permanently removed from the forum structure.
• December 31 - The Final Day Countdown event took place in the Casual Conversation Castle.

2008

• January 2 - First MFGG Review Drive is organized by ShadowMan.
• January 3 - A temporary Brawl Discussion forum is added by Yoshiman.
• January 5 - The Community Fangame Project officially begins core development, as both engines are introduced in basic forms.
• January 12 - The requirement for a Happy Heart Badge is dropped from 3 months to 2 months. This means CCC access is also after two months.
• January 23 - Battle Without Honor or Humility starts. It ends six days later.
• January 27 - Klobber officially resigns as administrator, and Jak resigns as Global Moderator. DJ Yoshiman and Jas appoint Captain Jeff Silvers and Tragic to take his place. Black Squirrel is also upgraded to Global Moderator status.
• January 28 - RageMario and Bacteriophage are also upgraded to Global Moderator status, Pinkybee takes Rage's art moderator position, meaning that the Forum Janitor and CCC Mod member categories are currently obsolete.
• February 9 - DJ Yoshiman and Jas propose plans to remove the CCC, which are recanted by the end of the day after generating enormous controversy and anger.
• February 17 - Dragmire leaves the moderation team.
• February 18 - The Great Mistake.
• February 19 - Jas resigns as administrator.
• March 7 - Masahiro Sakurai incident.
• March 11 - Tragedy Anne is upgraded to Global Moderator status. Guinea is hired as Fangame Discussion mod, Xgoff General Chat, Ashura Arts Board and Shyguy Grey as General Friendliness mod.
• April 1 - April Fools Prank. CCC is locked and forum suffers "Flood Control 2.0".
• April 2 - Luminous Reaver's "Codec Cyan" board skin is added.
• May 5 - Yoshiman PM scandal.
• May 7 - A load of members decided to leave, stirred by more extra drama of the Yoshiman PM scandal. They include Shadowman, jas, AppleQueso, Neo Hyper Yoshi, and Nova.
• May 10 - Xgoff resigns as General Chat moderator.
• May 28 - Tragic grants name change amnesty and restores the CCC to Casual Only status, then steps down from Admin to Global Moderator, appointing Black Squirrel to take his place.
• June - Group icons are created and made use of.
• July 9 - MFGG's 7th birthday.
• July 23 - Quackers appears.
• August 8 - Life on MFGG.
• August 16 - Pucifur and MegaTailzChao added to Site Staff.
• August 17 - The Country Flag System is added, showing a little flag icon before the username.

2009

• January 3 - WIP/Sketch is merged back into the Art Board.
• January 18 - The Ultra Happy Heart badge is born.
• February 15 - Wii Discussion is merged back into the GC.
• April 1 - April Fools Prank, skins changed by forum, THE VOID engulfs MFGG.
• April 7 - Tragic leaves moderation team and disappears into the abyss.
• April 13 - Shyguy Grey becomes new Global Moderator.
• June 12 - Trial Member System put into place. Guinea becomes administrator.
• June 21 - Kritter returns as Moderator. Tri is also hired.
• July 9 - MFGG's 8th birthday.
• August 8 - Black Squirrel announces MFGG message boards are to move to a new forum system; much discussion ensues. Radical changes include the death of the CCC. A few days later, Black Squirrel resigns.
• November 2 - Retriever II announces the date that the MFGG forum is moving to new software.
• November 7 - MFGG 3.0 opened up to the public after mass hype. Kritter has resigned as Moderator, Trasher is a Global Mod. All regular mods are upgraded to global, except Yoshiman, who refused. Jazz is a regular mod, and so is Mecha the Slag. Mecha the Slag is promoted to Global a few days later. Nick Ainsworth is a new admin.
• December 12 - Dinospoon occurs.
• December 22 - New namechange system put in place.
• December 31 - Jazz is promoted to Global Mod, leaving DJ Yoshiman as the only regular Mod. Zero Kirby is promoted to Site Staff, and Char is promoted to Admin. Risa is also demoted to regular member.

2010

• January 31 - 2009 MFGG Awards.
• February 14 - MFGG is down. TempFGG, a temporary stand-in message board, is created by DavidCaruso.
• Febuary 21 - Char's Simplistic Green skin was added.
• April 1 - April Fools Prank, the forums were "greekified", and Ω takes over MFGG.
• April 2 - Trasher is demodded for year-banning Guinea for banning Kritter for a day on April Fools for being too negative. The April Fools skin, "MFGGreece", becomes a usable skin (translated to English).
• April 4 - Kyori and Zero Kirby become Moderators for the General Chat.
• May 23 - The News Forum is resurrected. The MFGG Improvement Initiative is started.
• May 26 - Char and Guinea resign as Admins, stepping down to Moderator status. Mecha the Slag is demodded, due to apparently leaving. Chaoxys and Kyori are promoted to Admins, while Elyk, DavidCaruso and El Huesudo II are promoted to Global Moderators.
• June 2 - Dex is promoted to Arts Board Mod. Teddy is promoted to Gaming Corner Mod.
• June 17 - Dexy, Elyk, Kyori, and Tragic are made Main Site Comment Moderators.
• June 25 - MFGG Spring Cleaning begins.
• July 8 - Tragic is promoted to General Chat Mod.
• July 9 - MFGG's 9th birthday.
• July 11 - Zero Kirby is demoted due to inactivity.
• July 13 - The Lounge opens, DavidCaruso steps down from Global Mod to be a Lounge only mod, Dexy is also a Lounge mod.
• July 15 - Zero Kirby is re-promoted to Mod of the General Chat.
• August 19 - Char gets his own user group, Tech Admin. DJ Yoshiman steps down from his moderator position. Zero Kirby is moved to moderator of the fangame-centered boards.
• August 20 - Alex and Ultramario become mainsite Quality Control.
• October 7 - Dexy is promoted to administrator, DavidCaruso becomes Global Moderator, and McKnackus I becomes the moderator of the Arts Board.
• October 30 - The Murderous MFGGer, an event, narrated by Lemony Snicket, in which several members and event accounts are murdered. St. Nick is thought to be the murderer.
• November 2 - Serious Forum Games is closed and moved to The Vault.
• November 3 - DJ Yoshiman and Black Squirrel are promoted to Administrators after Kyori, Chaoxys, and Dex all step down from their Administrator positions, with Kyori staying on as Tech Admin. El Huesudo II also resigns from his position as Global Moderator.
• November 5 - DJ Yoshiman announces plans to separate the fangaming part of the MFGG forums from the community side.
• November 8 - Retriever II steps down from his Webmaster position to regular member, but will still host MFGG. Char is promoted to Webmaster.
• November 15 - MFGG forums close indefinitely. Minus World opens.
• November 26 - MFGG forums re-open. MFGG Wiki moved to new URL.

2011

• April - Many Minigame Competitions begin adopting much tighter time limits of 24 hours, two days, or one week; incidentally, these stricter deadlines cause a noticeable jump in entries and interest.
• May 22 - Char adds first new mainsite skin since 2006, New Super MFGG Bros., a port of the forum skin based on New Super Mario Bros.
• July 2 - 30 Games on MFGG Worth Playing feature begins.
• July 9 - MFGG 10th Anniversary. Special events include the release of the MFGG 10th Anniversary Time Capsule and interviews with 15 members integral to MFGG's history.
• October 26 - VinnyVideo is promoted to Global Moderator.
• October 31 - DJ Yoshiman retires from Administrator and steps down from his position as mainsite administrator. Guinea promoted from Global Mod to Administrator, both on the forums and mainsite.
• November - VinnyVideo promoted to Quality Control.
• December 30 - Black Squirrel resigns as Administrator on both the forums and mainsite.

2012

• January 14 - Guinea promoted to Wiki Sysop.
• January 15 - Alex, Puddin, and VinnyVideo promoted to Wiki Sysop.
• January 30/31 - 2011 MFGG Awards.
• April 18 - VinnyVideo promoted from Global Moderator to Administrator. Vinny also becomes admin level on the mainsite.
• April 19 - Elyk is now Quality Control as well as a comment moderator on the mainsite. Chaoxys promoted from regular member to Quality Control.
• July 25 - Elyk is promoted to Administrator to help update the forum profile fields.
• November 18 - The General Chat forum is revived on a probationary basis. Miles is promoted from regular member to Global Moderator.

2013

• February 8 - 2012 MFGG Awards occurs.
• April 17 - DJane Coco is added to Quality Control staff.
• April 18 - Jazz is demoted from Global Moderator to regular member because of inactivity.
• April 29 - Puddin announces his resignation as Wiki Sysop.
• May 2 - Rystar is promoted to Wiki Sysop.
• May 10 - Miles is promoted from Global Moderator to Administrator.
• July 9 - MFGG's 14th birthday.
• July 10 - Alex is demoted from her Site Staff and Wiki Sysop positions to a regular member due to inactivity.
• July 11 - DJane Coco, Fujiko, and Gameboy are promoted to Global Moderator by applying to Director of HR in the forum moderator hiring event.
• September 13 - The Midas Machine forum is archived.
• September 29 - Rystar is demoted from Wiki Sysop to a regular member and banned due to power abuse.
• October 4 - Nite Shadow is promoted to Wiki Sysop.
• October 4 - Miles steps down from Administrator.

2014

• January 1 - Mainsite Submission Guidelines are revised for the first time since 2005.
• January 26 - MFGG Awards 2013.
• March 10 - Mainsite Submission Rules and Filter Categories are updated, finally announcing the Donkey Kong Country series as acceptable MFGG content.
• April 6 - The News! forum is renamed to News & Events.
• April 13 - Gaming related topics are moved to the new Gaming forum as a test run. The Submit-it forum is also temporarily revived.
• April 20-27 - The Great MFGG Easter Egg Hunt. Temporary sub-forum Meadow Planet created in General Chat to house the event.
• April 27 - Submit-it is archived after the "Suitable Module Not Found" bug has been squashed.
• July 9 - MFGG's 13th anniversary. VinnyVideo posts results of Who's MFGG? survey.
• August 4-16 - Draw Kirby With Your Off Hand.
• August 22 - Yoshbert and Gato promoted to Site staff.
• October 7-November 5 - King Boo's Halloween Spooktacular event.
• December - Gameboy is demoted from Global Moderator to a regular member due to inactivity.

2015

• January 27 - MFGG Awards 2014 takes place.
• February 16 - DJ Coco is promoted to Administrator, and HylianDev is promoted to Global Moderator.
• April 1 - The PPP temporarily opened for April Fools, and Tusk Bucks were "planned".
• April 2-12 - Part 2 of the Great MFGG Easter Egg Hunt. Like part 1, the temporary sub-forum, Marsh Planet, was created at the General Chat to house the event.
• June 1-16 - The first MFGG Mafia forum game took place.
• July 9 - MFGG's 14th birthday.
• July 25 - The Forum Games forum reopened.
• August 4 - The disagree, tired, agree, and laughing smilies were updated to match the style of the rest of the smilies.
• September 11 - Blutorus is promoted to Global Mod, and Gato is now both Quality Control and Global Moderator. Fujiko is demoted from Global Mod to regular member because of inactivity.
• October 26-November 1 - The Hallowsphere event. It was housed on the Shallow Hallowsphere forum, which was temporarily in the General Chat. The Nyerk nyerk nyerk! event also took place on the General Chat, even though it ended on October 31.
• December 28 - Elyk is no longer an Administrator, and is now just Quality Control. Blutorus is now mainsite Quality Control.
• December 29 - Blutorus is now a forum Administrator instead of a Global Mod, and Yoshbert is now a main site Administrator.

2016

• January 23 - Miles is now promoted to a Global Moderator status.
• January 26 - The MFGG Awards of 2015 occur.
• February 4 - The Graphics & Audio board is renamed to the Arts Board.
• February 8 - The smilies were updated by Mit and ~CaMtEnDo~, with a few new ones added.
• March 19 - Nite Shadow is now promoted from a Global Moderator status to a Administrator status.
• April 1 - The All That forum skin is created, which was initially made for April Fools 2016.
• July 9 - MFGG's 15th birthday.
• July 18 - Miles is promoted to being in an Administrator status.
• September 7 - The PC, Code, and Flash topic icons were updated, while the PS3 and 360 topic icons are removed in favor of the new PS and Xbox icons.
• September 8 - A Unity topic icon was added and the Flash and Sketch topic icons were removed.
• September 10 - A Birthday topic icon got added.
• September 13 - The Game Maker topic icon got updated.
• November 3 - The Evening Chill skin was added into the forums.
• December 1-16 - Kirby's Adventure's MFGG Mafia 2 event took place.
• December 14 - A site-wide database error occurs. The main site and wiki were the first to come back up.
• December 24 - Miles earns the promotion to a Quality Control status.
• December 29 - Another site-wide database error took place for a bit.

2017

• January 11 - Nite Shadow resigns from the Administrator, Site Staff, and Wiki Sysop statuses following a series of events sparked by Kirby's Adventure. He is now just a regular member.
• January 15 - Ultramario was demoted from a Site Staff member to just a regular member due to inactivity.
• January 19 - A Switch topic icon was added.
• January 24 - A set of avatars from Super NES games (most of which represent Mario games) was added to the gallery.
• January 29 - MFGG Awards 2016 takes place.
• February 22 - Suggestions forum is opened.
• February 27 - The structure of the main page of the forums has been changed twice.
• March 4 - Nintendo Switch friend codes can now be inserted in profiles.
• March 13 - April 14th - Mario Madness occurs.
• April 15 - MFGG now uses HTTPS on the mainsite, forums, and Wiki.
• April 22 - Dustinvgmaster is promoted to Quality Control.
• May 28 - Guinea announces his retirement as Administrator. He's now a regular member.
• June 16 - DJ Coco resigns as Administrator. Coco is now a regular member on both the forums and mainsite.
• June 22 - Elyk was demoted from a Quality Control to just a regular member.
• July 9 - Space Junk Galaxy replaces Forum Games on the forums; Forum Games is archived. MFGG Facebook page is officially launched. MFGG's 16th birthday.
• July 11 - MFGG's Youtube Channel was officially launched.
• July 18 - Langton is promoted to Quality Control. Miles resigns as Administrator and is a regular member again.
• August 6 - Dustinvgmaster and Zero Kirby are promoted to Global Moderator status in addition to being Quality Control. HylianDev is now officially an Administrator instead of just a Global Moderator.
• September 25 - VinnyVideo sets up a MyBB test board that later becomes the new MyBB forum.
• September 26 - Yoshin is now a Wiki Sysop.
• October - WAH-loween takes place, with Halloween-themed content and events taking place.
• October 6 - The WAHloween skin was added to the main site.
• October 15 - MFGG Discord Group is launched.
• October 23 - Do the Odyssey is opened in honor of the upcoming release of Super Mario Odyssey.
• November 24 - The forums get a Majora's Mask-style countdown to the end of the phpBB era.
• November 27 - The phpBB forums are retired at 6 A.M. Eastern time. The new MyBB forums are officially launched later that day.

2018

• April 9 - Yoshin is now a forum moderator in addition to being a Wiki Sysop.
• May 20 - Pedigree is now a forum moderator in addition to being the Social Media Manager.
• May 30 - The main site now accepts ROM hacks.
• June 4 - The main site has a new mobile friendly look that matches the forums.
• June 24 - Yoshin is now Quality Control as well as a forum mod and Wiki Sysop.
• July 9 - Mario Fan Games Galaxy's 17th Birthday.
• July 27 - Kirby's Adventure, Beatrice, Fun With Despair, and rollerC become the first chat-specific mods in the MFGG Discord Group.
• September 18 - Fun With Despair and Hypernova are promoted to Site Staff positions and will serve as mainsite comment mods.
• October 22 - Vitiman was promoted to Tech Admin.
• November 27 - First anniversary of MyBB forums.
• November 28 - MFGG staff shuffling: Yoshin was promoted to Administrator. Fun With Despair was promoted to Global Moderator and Quality Control. Vitiman and Hypernova were promoted to Quality Control. HylianDev stepped down from Administrator to Tech Admin.
• November 29 - Pedigree resigns from being part of the staff.
• December 18 - The main site now separates ROM hacks from the "Games" section, and now gives them their own section called "Hacks and Mods".
• December 24 - Several staff members resign: Kirby's Adventure resigns his Discord Mod position, Dustinvgmaster steps down as Administrator, and Zero Kirby steps down as Global Moderator. Cruise Elroy demotes himself from Administrator to Quality Control, and Vitiman goes from Tech Admin to Quality Control.
• December 26 - Mors is promoted to forum moderator and Social Media Manager.

2019

• January 10 - The original MFGG Discord Group is archived and a new Discord is launched.
• January 19 - GamerInGeorgia and Evil Yoshi Toes are now forum moderators. Chaoxys is demoted from Quality Control to regular member.
• February 8 - VinnyVideo retires from his Administrator position and is now a Tech Admin.
• May 19 - MFGG now accepts submissions other than just the Mario franchise.
• May 27 - Yoshin demoted from the Administrator position due to lack of involvement and activity.
• June 8 - Beatrice is demoted from Discord Moderator because of lack of activity.
• June 14 - Major staff role restructure, Gatete was promoted to Main Site Moderator, Fun With Despair was promoted to Forum Admin, Vitiman was promoted to Main Site Admin.
• June 28 - Ye Olde MFGGe Game Jamboree, hosted by Roo, began and ended on July 8th.
• June 30 - MFGG Homecoming, created by GeneralGuy, begins and ended on August 11th.
• July 9 - Mario Fan Games Galaxy's 18th Birthday.
• July 31 - Vitiman resigns from the Site Staff.
• Aug 11 - Recent and Morgario (a.k.a. RevampedSpider) were promoted to Discord Trial Mod. Evil Yoshi Toes is promoted to Global Moderator.

2020

• January 16 - 2019 MFGG Awards.
• May 9 - First MFGG Game Jam begins.
• July 9 - MFGG's 19th birthday.
• December 3 - SilverVortex is now Site Staff; Gatete is now an Administrator on the mainsite.

2021

• January 15 - RevampedSpider resigns as Discord Moderator.
• February 17 - Recent is no longer a Discord Moderator; SilverVortex now has the Discord Moderator role as well.
• July 9 - MFGG's 20th birthday.

2022

• April 15 - SilverVortex steps down from staff roles.
• May - ReynLynxPSI becomes a Quality Control staffer.
• July 9 - MFGG's 21st birthday.
• September - Evil Yoshi Toes resigns as staff member (but later returns).

2023

• July 9 - MFGG's 22nd birthday.
• October - Shikaternia and Luigibonus become Main Site Moderators.

2024

• February 29 - MFGG now accepts HTML5 games.
• April 8 - MFGG Eclipse.
• July 9 - MFGG's 23rd birthday.
• November - ReynLynxPSI becomes a forum mod in addition to Quality Control.

2025

• March - Mainsite adds Bluesky profile fields and makes several accessibility upgrades.
• May 7 - Matrix and MewMewPsychic are now mainsite Quality Control.
• May 10 - Mainsite now runs on TCSMS 1.1, which fully supports PHP 8.2.
• May 17 - Mainsite now has a responsive design, making experience much more user-friendly.
• June 29 - Mors resigns as Administrator and is now a Site Developer; Evil Yoshi Toes is demoted from his Discord Mod position because of inactivity.
• July 9 - MFGG's 24th birthday.

2026

• January 21 - Littlelum is now a mainsite Quality Control moderator, and MewMewPsychic is no longer one due to inactivity.
• July 9 - MFGG's 25th birthday.