Todd Rogers

Todd Rogers (born 1967) is an American video game player who has been described as the first professional video game player. He claimed to be recognized by Activision for having achieved many record-setting high scores, but many of his records were later disputed for a lack of verifying evidence or found to be impossible to achieve. In January 2018, the Twin Galaxies record database removed all of his scores from their leaderboards and banned him permanently, and Guinness World Records stripped his records. The game's programmer David Crane would later confirm that he had a vague recollection of programming test runs, but did not remember the results. In 2017, a speedrunner named Eric "Omnigamer" Koziel disassembled the game's code and concluded that the fastest possible time was 5.57 seconds. With a tick rate of 0.03 seconds, the record claim is two ticks faster than Omnigamer's data and one tick faster than the reported Activision 'perfect run'.

On January 23, 2018, Twin Galaxies posted an interview with Activision's David Crane, programmer of Dragster, who expressed that he had "no doubt that [Rogers] achieved the scores he claims". The next day, Guinness stripped all of Rogers' records.