When the Despair Squid attacked Starbug with its venom, the Dwarfers awoke to find themselves in a TIV Game suite. The attendant told them they had been playing Red Dwarf for four years and that their memories would return shortly. As they explored their new identities, the Dwarfers learned that they were very different from the people they remembered themselves to be. They decided to leave the arcade and discover more. Although this was only a hallucination, dimension theory states that this reality continued to exist in an alternative, parallel dimension.