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Windfall: Video Game Run Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/14/2019
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Welcome to the video game run.  These caches are hidden along part of the Florida Trail here in Ocala.  It should be a nice stroll, but you should always be prepared with water and anything else you may need for the hike.  You will be out and about with nature and all it's critters, so be careful of them and you should be fine.

Please  re-cover this cache with some natural camo so it's not visible.

This real-time game released in 1980 makes you the player on the other side of the mid-1970's Oil Crisis. As the Chief Executive of Engulf Oil, you attempt to turn crisis into cash, making your windfall profits. The player controls parameters such as OPEC Pricing, Dock Workers Salaries, Gas Station Attendant's Salaries, and Gas Station Prices in an attempt to create an optimum economic model. However, the situation may be complicated by price fixing from the other four oil companies or government intervention to minimize a potential oil prices. Low-res graphics of cars lined up at the gas stations and of oil tankers at the dockyards provide players with real-time feedback on how their economic models affects queue (line) length and demonstrates how an oil crises may occur.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ovt bnx jvgu sreal yvzo

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)