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Pong - Video Game Classic Series South Traditional Geocache

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RetiredGuy: Farewell Florida

Dear Fellow Geocachers,
In 2011, I created the Video Game Classic Series South to celebrate video games from the 1970’s and 1980’s. The series grew to having 50 caches with container, location, or puzzle connected to the classic video games. Having almost all of the containers be themed meant that maintaining them has been difficult but well worth it. The series has had 5700 cache finds by 1100 different geocachers. I have also maintained a leaderboard of cachers’ progress in the series, now with fourteen cachers having found all 50 caches.

In March of 2020, my wife and I moved back to Boston to be near our first grandchild and I can no longer maintain the caches. I will be archiving them when they go missing or have serious issues. While you can still access the leaderboard by clicking on this message, all 50 caches will no longer be available to find.

I deeply enjoyed the Florida geocaching community. Should you make it to Boston, feel free to look up my caches or me while you are in the area.

Best regards and keep on cachin’
Doug
www.RetiredGuy.com

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Hidden : 1/3/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

You are looking for a micro inside a host that is normally used to hit table tennis balls. It is hidden just north of the Vero Beach Table Tennis Club (305 Acacia Road). Great area for dogs!

Released in 1972, Pong was one of the earliest arcade video games and was the first to reach mainstream popularity. Allan Alcorn created Pong as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari founder, Nolan Bushnell.

The idea was based on an electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey, which later resulted in a lawsuit against Atari. Pong quickly became a success and led to the start of the video game industry.

During the 1975 Christmas season, Atari released a home version of Pong exclusively through Sears retail stores and was a commercial success.

Pong has been referenced and parodied in multiple television shows and video games, and has been a part of many video game and cultural exhibitions. While campaigning in 2008, candidate Barack Obama was asked by Entertainment Weekly, "What's the last videogame you played?" to which he responded, "Pong. That gives you a sense of my age. I loved that game."



Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)