Boston Bricks Bonus / Breakout - Video Game Series Mystery Cache

This cache is not at the posted coordinate. Completing the Boston Brick Adventure Lab will give you the final coordinates and a hint.

In a small alleyway a few steps away from Boston's Freedom Trail is a hidden, whimsical (and quite funny) treasure.

Take a few minutes between Kings Chapel and the Old South Meeting House and detour to Winthrop Lane between Otis and Arch. There, you will find the Boston Bricks.

Each installation commemorates a key event within Boston's past and present. The stones are slightly raised, so they are polished by passersby. On their shiny surfaces, you'll spot anything from scenes depicting Boston's notoriously aggressive drivers to a 19th-century baseball glove.

Your GPS will be relatively useless in this alleyway so pay attention to the hint that you will given as you complete the Boston Bricks Adventure Lab.

This cache is also part of the Classic Video Game Series of caches honoring Breakout.

Breakout was a 1976 arcade game developed by Atari. In the game, a layer of bricks lined the top third of the screen. A ball traveled across the screen, bouncing off the top and side walls of the screen. When a brick was hit, the ball bounced away and the brick was destroyed. The player lost a turn when the ball touched the bottom of the screen. To prevent this from happening, the player had a movable paddle to bounce the ball upward, keeping it in play. The arcade cabinet used a black and white monitor with strips of colored cellophane placed over it so that the bricks appeared to be in color.

Breakout was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow but the prototype was built by a young Atari employee, Steve Jobs, working with a friend and Hewlett-Packard employee, Steve Wozniak.

Jobs and Wozniak would later go on to start their own company.

This cache is part of RetiredGuy's Classic Video Game Series of caches: