BLACK OPS2010ARCHIVES
An independent archive of Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010): game cases, international cover art, physical editions and the history of BO1 PC esports.
STEAM PROFILEcat4444Creator and curatorOPEN STEAM PROFILE ↗Lost archives, scattered fragments… and far too little sunlight.
The project began with a much more reasonable goal: completing my collection of Black Ops game cases. A few searches later, the shelf had turned into a museum — proof that one missing case can cost a great deal of time… and a few hours of sunlight.
This archival work took a considerable amount of time and, according to an exceptionally rigorous calculation, a regrettable amount of daylight. Some pages had vanished; others were buried in forgotten corners of the web. Captures had to be recovered, cross-checked or “restored”, while many details remained incomplete, contradictory or uncertain. The museum brings together what could be recovered, separates evidence from unresolved leads, and remains open to corrections.
Two galleries,
one shared collection.
The museum brings together two documentary collections: a worldwide catalogue of 133 physical editions and a documented history of Black Ops esports on Windows PC. Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii circuits are excluded, even when they use the same organization or tournament names. The main period covered is November 2010 to November 2012.
Physical editions
Physical editions, regional variants, languages, platforms, collector releases and reissues.
History of PC esports
2010–2012 · teams, players, organizations, leagues, tournaments and T1/T2/T3 reference levels.
Explore the Black Ops 1 archive
Call of Duty: Black Ops, released in 2010 and often called Black Ops 1 or BO1, is the focus of this independent digital museum. The archive brings together research on physical editions: game cases, cover art, collector boxes, languages and regional variants across consoles and computers.
A second collection traces the BO1 competitive scene on PC from 2010 to 2012 through teams, players, leagues, tournaments and recovered sources. The records distinguish established information from leads that still need verification and remain open to corrections.