As a lot of you know
The original black ops black ops one is one of my favorite games of all time. And as you probably also know
We are going to be returning to that universe with cod 2020
But did you know the original black ops was chocked full of easter eggs. What is up? Everybody chaos here
Welcome to the channel. Welcome to the video today is going to be
a fun one a trip
down memory lane
We're going to go over my picks for the best easter eggs in the original
Black ops game now you let me know in the comments
Which of these is your favorite and where black ops 1 actually stands on your call of duty tier list drop a like
And here we go. Let's start off with one. That is actually one of the first things you see when you boot up the game
The treyarch logo now you've been staring at this easter egg for years and you probably never even noticed it
During the opening logos after you start up black ops during the treyarch logo the numbers 11
9
And 10 will be shown now
this may seem just like a random collection of numbers to go along with the number theme of the campaign, but
Those numbers are actually a reference to the release date of the game itself
11910 stands for november 9th
2010 which was the day
That black ops launched, but that's not the only date hidden as an easter egg in this game
Let's talk about the trailer
If you go back to the original reveal trailer of black ops one there is a sequence early on where a digital clock reads
2010
three
Two which and that may also seem like a random collection of numbers, but it's not this is a reference to march 2nd 2010
Which was the date black ops 1 was originally
Revealed that's crazy. It was revealed in march and we still haven't seen anything for cod 2020 and it's august now
It's pretty cool to see dates hidden in plain set like this and you were probably looking in there for years
And you didn't even realize they were easter eggs because there are a lot of random numbers in the original black ops
Which is why they blend right in but with all that being said this
Game, like I said, it was revealed early march
2nd march 2nd. Come on cod 2020
next up is the narrator speaking of the reveal trailer for black ops 1
Have you ever noticed how the narrator in that trailer isn't actually in the game in the trailer
There's a narrator talking about mason and what they need to do to him and how they need to interrogate him
But this narrator character doesn't actually appear in the final game. However
Everything the narrator says in the trailer
Does appear all the narrator's lines in the trailer split up between dragovich hudson and reznoff in the final campaign?
But when you think about it, that's actually kind of an easter egg itself the big reveal of the black ops campaign
Is that everybody you thought you could trust was actually untrustworthy and they were all working to brainwash you in different ways
So in a way, it was actually a bit of foreshadowing that in the trailer
All of their lines were spoken by the same character because it hints at the fact that all three characters
Are tied together in the final story, even if it doesn't seem that way and maybe maybe i'm digging a little too deep here
But I thought it was cool. I wouldn't put it past treyarch to put an easter egg that well hidden in the trailer
Next up is the nuketown double rainbow
So back in 2010. There was a viral video on youtube and it was a big deal. These were the early days of youtube
So if something went viral, it was a big deal and everybody saw it
It was a short video of a guy named paul vasquez getting super excited about a double rainbow in his backyard
In yosemite it was such a wholesome and fun video that it ended up going super viral
It got tens of millions of views and of course it made its way into the treyarch offices during the development of black ops
So as a little nod to this legendary video from youtube history
They decided to actually put a double rainbow into one of the multiplayer maps and it was nuketown. It makes sense
they do it here as most the maps in black ops 1 were pretty grim and serious in terms of theming while
Nuketown was very colorful very frantic. But if you boot up black ops one duketown and take a look into the sky
You will see the double rainbow out in the distance at number six
Jfk's book now. John, f kennedy played a huge part in the story of black ops
You meet him at the beginning of the campaign and the whole brainwashing aspect revolves around you trying to resist assassinating him
But jfk has actually implied to have been more involved with your brainwashing through an easter egg in the ending cut scene of the campaign
When the lady is shown talking into the microphone, if you look at her desk, you can see a book called profiles in courage
Which was written by none other than john f kennedy back in 1956 when he was still a senator
So whoever was doing the brainwashing and whoever was reading the numbers into mason's brain had actually been reading up
On jfk's past as a politician. I think it was a nice little touch for those who actually know their american history
next up is the golf game on hazard now hazard is one of the most popular dlc maps in the original black ops and visually
It's one of my favorite maps in cod history
It was a remake of cliffside from world at war
But with a drastic change in theming instead of taking place by a beach in japan
It was now in a big golf course in cuba the colorful. I mean the colors they were they were bright
They popped super well made the game gorgeous even by today's standards
But we'll get to the spot on the list today was the little easter egg
There is a scoreboard on display that reads woods minus eight bowmen minus two and mason plus eight
so apparently the main characters from the campaign were in the middle of a match when the fighting broke out and also
Apparently mason is not
Very good at golf. I mean plus eight. Come on buddy. Next up is fear
This is a cool one as you guys know black ops 1 was the first cod game that really embraced zombies as a third mode
World at war was where zombies made its debut
But black ops 1 is where treyarch solidified it went all out and supported it post launch
So is a little easter egg in a nod to the popularity of zombies
Treyarch threw in a little reference with the titles of the four dlc packs and black ops the four
dlcs for black ops one were called first strike
escalation
Annihilation and resurrection, you take the first letter of each of those packs and guess what they spell fear
Now I know it's a small gesture in the grand scheme of easter eggs
But it's still a nice little touch and a nice little nod to how treyarch was really starting to take the zombies mode seriously
And giving a ton of much-needed love to the new at the time
zombies community raphael on convoy
Now one of the dlc maps was called convoy it took place in the middle of a big collapse bridge
In california, the map itself was okay
But there was a really cool easter egg here that paid tribute to the children of one of the developers throughout the map
there are wanted posters looking for someone named rafael angelini who is only age 14
Some of these wanted posters will even say his crimes are pwning noobs and being awesome
But they also say he loved or he was loved by treyarch and activision
These posters are actually a real life tribute to a 14 year old named rafael who is a big call of duty fan
but was diagnosed with leukemia during the development of black ops 1
So as a way to pay tribute to their young fan
He was brought out to treyarch studios for a visit and they immortalized him on one of the games maps
It was a very touching tribute that I encourage you to go take a look at if you've never noticed it
at number two, uh the rolling stones
On nuketown now
The rolling stones are one of the most famous rock bands of all time and their music was extremely popular during the vietnam
And cold war era and as many of you probably know there's actually a rolling stone easter egg on black op
black op one's newstown
There is if you start up a game on nuketown and you run around the map
And decapitate all the mannequins in a certain amount of time you hit the rolling stone song sympathy for the devil
It will start playing through the maps loudspeakers for everybody to hear
It's actually a pretty awesome easter egg and it helped add a little bit of symmetry between the multiplayer
And the single player because that song had also been heavily featured in black ops 1 trailers
And it popped up in the campaign as well as part of the soundtrack. It's just cool
and finally
The main menu you you knew it was going to be number one and if you don't know about this
It's going to blow your mind
The main menu of black ops 1 is one of the most creative parts of the whole game and to this day
I'm still amazed that they came up with this
So the main menu has you strapped into a chair being forced to watch various crt monitors?
Which is where you choose what you want to do whatev whatever you want campaign multiplayer
So on so forth
But by doing a little button combination you could actually stand up from the chair and start walking around the room
You can check out the crt monitors. You can check out the notes on the table
You can look around for an exit
You can even play a game of zork, which is one of the earliest video games ever made this
Was such a great easter egg and when it was first discovered it blew
Everybody's mind and I wish
Modern cod games would do stuff like this
Nobody gets creative with their main menus anymore like treyarch did there you have it my friends
Those are some of the best easter eggs hidden in black ops one there are many
Many more if you want me to do a follow-up update video down the road we could do that because I can think of 20
Or 30 more that were really cool
But I had to rank them
The best way I could I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did drop a like and i'll see you soon
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