Black Ops 6’s Zombies Easter egg hunt is taking me back in time

digitaltrends.com:

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is more than another numbered entry in the popular subseries. It’s far more than a well-designed first-person shooter composed of a high-octane single-player campaign, a robust and deeply enjoyable competitive multiplayer suite, and an off-the-wall cooperative horde mode.

It’s a time machine.

That was then …

It’s the summer of 2011 and the apartment is sweltering. My mom is hunched over the stove or running up and down the apartment with a mop. A nondescript bachata song is blaring on the stereo installed above the microwave. My brother is locked away in our room, or out with some friends, and my father is away at work. All the while, I’m firmly rooted to my couch, as if time has allowed vines to spring up and fix me to the spot. A Dualshock 3 is in my hand, a poor excuse of a headset sits on my head.

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I’m playing Call of Duty: Black Ops‘ cooperative Zombies mode with my best friends.

That summer, I must’ve lived on that couch. No matter the occasion, I dialed in from the moment I woke up to the wee hours of the next morning. No inconvenience — idle talk, chores, or any responsibility shy of eating and using the bathroom — kept us from partying up, jumping into a round of Zombies, and trying to solve the mode’s inscrutable Easter eggs, all the while surviving as long as we could. As kids, we were possessed with a drive to unlock the unfathomably weird depth of these puzzles, which grew from musical triggers into mechanisms for a larger and more ambitious narrative than I previously