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Pole Position - 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 : 11/21/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Pole Position was a racing arcade game released in 1982 by Namco and quickly brought to America by Atari.

Bring a pen or pencil!



Pole Position was published by Namco in Japan and by Atari in the United States. The game popularized the use of sprite-based, pseudo-3D graphics with its "rear-view racer format"—where the player’s view is behind and above the vehicle, looking forward along the road with the horizon in sight—which would remain in use even after true 3D computer graphics became standard for racing games.



The home cartridge versions of the games were programmed by General Computer in Massachusetts in 1983. The 2600 cartridge was programmed by Doug Macrae, Alan Hodgkinson, and John Allred. The 5200 cartridge was programmed by Mike Horowitz and Betty Tylko.

An interesting piece of trivia is that many years latter, Namco worked together with Nintendo on a racing game called Mario Kart Arcade GP in which characters from both companies raced around the track. These included Mario (look for him sitting on the cache), Ms. Pac-Man (RetiredGuy's girlfriend), Luigi (maybe Papa Luigi will be FTF) and many others.



Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fpbssynj (sbe n enprpne)!

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)