Portal

added May 15, 2009 at 01:44AM UTC

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Portal is a single-player first-person action/puzzle video game developed by Valve Corporation. The game was released in a bundle package called The Orange Box for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on October 9, 2007, 1 2 and for the PlayStation 3 on December 11, 2007. 5 The Windows version of the game is also available for download separately through Valve’s content delivery system, Steam 7 and was released as a standalone retail product on April 9, 2008. 6 A stand-alone version was released on the Xbox 360 Live Arcade system on October 22, 2008; this version includes an additional fourteen bonus puzzles.

The game consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player’s character and other simple objects using the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (dubbed the “Portal Gun” or “ASHPD”), a unit that can create an inter-spatial portal between flat planes. The player character is challenged by an AI named “GLaDOS” to complete each puzzle in the “Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center” using the Portal Gun with the promise of receiving cake when all the puzzles are completed. The unusual physics allowed by the portal gun are the emphasis of this game, and are an extension of a similar portal concept in Narbacular Drop; many of the team members from the DigiPen Institute of Technology that worked on Narbacular Drop were hired by Valve for the creation of Portal.

Portal has been acclaimed as one of the most original games in 2007 despite being comparatively short in length. The game has received praise for its unique gameplay and darkly humorous story, created with the assistance of Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek of “Old Man Murray” fame. It is also revered for the character of GLaDOS, voiced by Ellen McLain in the English version, and the final credits song “Still Alive” written by Jonathan Coulton for the game. The game’s popularity has led to official merchandise from Valve including plush Companion Cubes as well as fan creations such as recreations of the cake and replicas of the “portal gun.”

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Chris Menning
May 15, 2009 at 03:19AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Portal is my favorite game ever. But a video game is a video game, not a meme. And a video game reference is just a video game reference.

Parody, satire, tribute, mutation, massive amounts of parodies that aren’t just simple references. These are the things that define internet memes.

james
May 15, 2009 at 04:38PM UTC , james wrote:

i was thinking more of the concept of portal. i’ve seen many memes combined with the red and blue portal for comedic effect

Chris Menning
May 15, 2009 at 07:08PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Okay, I’ll resurrect this one and Battletoads so you can write up their memetic usage.

Anon1
May 22, 2009 at 09:41PM UTC , Anon1 wrote:

It did make a few memes but did you mention the meme “Now you’re thinking with portals!” for when things in a picture come out of nowhere in paticular?

RawrSpoon
May 23, 2009 at 07:08AM UTC , RawrSpoon wrote:

Sorry for huge picture but it demonstrates the memetic qualities of Portal

kikinak
May 28, 2009 at 10:35PM UTC , kikinak wrote:

flash version:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/404612

Chris Menning
May 29, 2009 at 07:23PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Portal its self is a Video Game. It may have inspired some memetic things, but the game its self is not a meme. It’s a game.

Taryn
May 31, 2009 at 07:03PM UTC , Taryn wrote:

Hey Chris, if a game reference is not a meme, how do you explain memes such as: “Fail”, “Win”, or even “All your base are belong to us”? Exactly, it may be a reference, but the wide spread on the interwebz is very memetic.

Fierce Pika
Jun 05, 2009 at 10:16AM UTC , Fierce Pika wrote:

I would argue that the portal aspect of Portal has become somewhat mimetic. But if that’s the case, this entry needs majorly rewritten, and should be about the portal MEME and not the game. “All your base” as an entry is not written primarily about Zero Wing.

Keegan
Jul 07, 2009 at 12:19AM UTC , Keegan wrote:

The meme would be something from the game, not the game itself. Like “The Cake is a Lie” is a popular one.

Adler
Aug 23, 2009 at 11:09PM UTC , Adler wrote:

Portal the game isn’t a meme but the blue and orange portals definatly are.

You see them everywhere on the internet.

Adler
Aug 23, 2009 at 11:11PM UTC , Adler wrote:

Portal the game isn’t a meme. But the blue and orange portals from the game definately are.

You see them everywhere on the internet.

itak365
Oct 20, 2009 at 04:38PM UTC , itak365 wrote:

I figured at Least “the cake is a lie” would have featured as a meme. I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t know what it means.

ILuVKDyEr
Nov 03, 2009 at 07:56PM UTC , ILuVKDyEr wrote:

Awsome story bro, but its not a meme. Fun game tho.

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