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Joust - 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 : 4/22/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

In the game of Joust, your knight rides around on a particular type of bird. This bird is famous for doing something to hide from problems or danger. I have done that with the cache.


Joust was an arcade game developed by John Newcomer at Williams Electronics and released in 1982. The player used a button and joystick to control a knight riding a flying ostrich. The object was to progress through levels by defeating groups of enemy knights riding buzzards.


Console versions of Joust were developed by General Computer for Atari. The 2600 version was programmed by Mike Feinstein and Kevin Osborne. The 5200 version was programmed by Mike Horowitz, Allen Wells, and Steve Syzmanski. The 7800 version was programmed by Pete Gaston and Ed Arenberg.





Additional Hints (Decrypt)

AJ pbeare bs enzc.

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)