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Football - 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 : 6/6/2018
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


You of course, are looking for a football.

Atari Football was a 2-player 1978 arcade game developed and published by Atari. In this game, the sport of American football was emulated, with players represented by Xs and Os. The game was one of the most popular arcade games in its day. In 1979, Atari released a more challenging four-player version programmed by Dave Theurer, the creator of Missile Command and Tempest.

Although not the first trackball game, Atari Football was the game that is credited with popularizing the trackball. Considered physically exhausting to play, Atari Football involved spinning the trackball as fast as possible to win the game, often resulting in blisters.




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)