Upon further investigation, Twin Galaxies referees were unable to find independent verification for this time, having instead been relying on erroneous information from Activision.
[12][9] As listed on the Twin Galaxies leaderboard until January 2018, Rogers's record in the 1980 Activision game Dragster was a time of 5.51 seconds from 1982.
[13][14] The game's programmer David Crane would later confirm that he had a vague recollection of programming test runs, but didn't remember the results.
[15] In 2017, a speedrunner named Eric "Omnigamer" Koziel disassembled the game's code and concluded that the fastest possible time was 5.57 seconds.
[16] 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".