Todd Rogers (gamer)

Todd Rogers is an American video game competitor living in Brooksville, FL who gained fame in the early 1980s for his hundreds of world record high scores and for his expertise on Activision games. He appears in two recent feature films: and The King of Kong.

Biography

Born on December 1st, 1964 in Chicago, IL, Rogers gained local notoriety in 1982 at Burbank IL Haunted Trails for his world record on the arcade game Gorf. On November 24, 1982, he scored 653,990 points, a world record that still stands today on the Twin Galaxies scoreboard. [ cite web | url= http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=22&pi=2&gi=3872&vi=1257
title=Twin Galaxies' Scoreboard for Gorf High Scores | date=2008-8-25]

Gaming Career

Rogers was one of the video game industry's earliest players to be hired for their playing skills. During the 1980-1992 era, Rogers appeared at the CES Show as well as other gaming Expositions in order to demonstrate games to the attendees. [ cite web | url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_PmB_wON5M&feature=related | title=Todd Rogers on WXYZ (ABC) TV, Detroit, MI, 1982 | date=1982] Rogers was featured in many well-publicized "Beat The Champ" contests that pitted his skills against those of the public. [ cite web | url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AsL-EK9Rd4
title=Todd Rogers on Coin-Op TV, Episode #15 | date=2006-6-4]

In the Competitive Arena

[ cite web | url= http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=18&id=959
title=Game Boy:The trash-talking, hard-living, middle-aged video-game champion of the world - The Weekly Planet, Tampa, FL | date=2005-1-5]

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