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Asteroids - Video Game Classic Series South Mystery Cache

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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 : 11/29/2010
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Asteroids was a video arcade game designed and released in 1979 by Atari Inc. It was one of the most popular and influential arcade games of all times.

The cache is not at the posted coordinates but is within one mile and the location is thought to be a good home for asteroids.


Asteroids used a black and white vector display. The player controlled a spaceship in an asteroid field which was periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game was to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers' counter-fire.

The game was conceived by Lyle Rains and programmed and designed by Ed Logg. It was implemented on hardware developed by Howard Delman. Asteroids became Atari's best selling arcade game of all time.



A "3D" version of Asteroids was created for the Atari 7800 in which the asteroids were 3D spinning colored rocks. This version was programmed by Mike Horowitz, Josh Littlefield, Doug Macrae, and Greg Munster of General Computer in Massachusetts.


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Fvmr znggref Pnpur: Znlor nfgrebvqf genafyngrf gb “uvtu ebpx”?

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)