Metro Seattle Gamers (MSG) originally had two parents: Dragonflight and the University Simulation Gaming Association (SGA). The current Dragonflight organization was started in 1981 to continue the Dragonflight annual conventions and to promote the hobby generally. SGA started in 1979: it was a registered student organization that met for long hours of gaming in a conference room on Saturdays and held shorter sessions during the week in an office in the Husky Union Building (HUB). Dragonflight and its convention predate MSG by about ten years.

MSG and Dragonflight GameCon separated in August 2022.

During the early years of Dragonflight, the SGA provided a large percentage of the game events and staff for the convention. In time, the HUB became prohibitively expensive for a campus gaming club to use, so in 1990 members of the SGA asked the Dragonflight Board of Directors to consider sponsoring a game club to serve the Seattle area.

• In October 1990, the first Metro Seattle Gamers was opened in Ballard at 1139 Northwest Market Street. 
• In June 2007, Metro Seattle Gamers moved to its second location at the Interbay Business Center, 1600 West Armory Way (since demolished and reborn as storage).
  
• In June 2017, Metro Seattle Gamers moved to its third location at the Nickerson Marina Building, Suite 200D. 
• In May 2019, we moved upstairs to Suite 301.
• In June 2024, we moved into the much bigger suite just down the hall, also named Suite 301!

The club has seen its share of trends in gaming. Early in the club’s history Wizards of the Coast held one of its first organizational meetings at MSG (note: we never had any formal affiliation with WotC). The 90’s at the club saw Magic, LAN gaming, experimental wargaming, lots of Titan, and the early beginnings of Euro gaming. Since the turn of the century, we saw considerably more Euro gaming, some rail gaming. Now we are seeing a resurgence in wargaming, long and complex Euros, and role-playing games.