Todd Rogers (born 1967)[1] is an American video game player who has been described as the first professional video game player.[2][3][4][5] In 1986, he was invited to be part of the U.S. National Video Game Team.[6][7] He had 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.[8][9][10] 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.[5][11]