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RS Tennis - 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 : 12/31/2010
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

You are looking for a themed container not too far from the tennis courts. Bring a pen or pencil! Please rehide the container out of sight of muggles and firmly in place. Thanks.



Realsports Tennis was released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. Considering the abilities of the 2600 hardware (think Pong), the graphics on this game were quite impressive. Before the match started, players would enter their names onto the scoreboard above the court. Players could play against the computer or against another player. This game was one of many 2600 cartridges designed for Atari by General Computer in Massachusetts. The cartridge was engineered by Doug Macrae and Alan Hodgkinson.


Note: This cache replaces GC2JF1Q which was taken down due to the fact that it was catching cachers red-handed. The container had a kid's stamp in it which leaked red ink all over the container. My apologies to all that found the first one:
FTF: Grahamcracker2
STF: hapyhunter
TTF: biggdipper


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Abar arrqrq.

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)