Portal
Monday, July 7, 2008
Comments: 2 (latest December 18, 2015)
Tagged: hypertext, orange box, steam, rob swigart, portal
I played through Portal yesterday.
jmac: So did you enjoy portal?
zarf: yes
zarf: I should make a Gameshelf post, but it would be a one-liner.
jmac: That's fine.
jmac: It would be like saying "Hey I just saw this 'Star Wars' movie OK" at this point
zarf: yep
jmac: I trust in your judgement / ability to say something original despite everything
zarf: I'm gonna quote this exchange... :)
I finished the game off at 2:30 AM, so you should be wary of my ability to get nouns and verbs in the same sentence, much less be original. But I appreciate the vote of confidence.
(I briefly considered making a long post about playing Portal, the 1986 hypertext science fiction novel/game by Rob Swigart. But I've got little new to say about that Portal either. Except that, drat, the Web-based version is no longer working.)
It is worth noting that I signed up for Steam almost 24 hours ago and nobody has come to collect my soul. I haven't even gotten any bothersome promotional email. That puts them ahead of a lot of web sites I've signed up for. (Big Fish, I am pointing this plasma rifle at you. I never did manage to unsubscribe to your newsletter. By "plasma rifle" I mean "welcome to my spam filter".)
That damn song is stuck in my head, but that's been happening on and off since it first hit YouTube.
I don't blame you. I don't hate you. Shutting down.
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Andrew Plotkin
(December 18, 2015 at 4:46 PM):
A better permanent link for Swigart's Portal is: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Portal_1986
The link to Portal game is down, here I found the game and other interesting resources!
(Commenter's link was www.squakenet.com/download/portal/4235/ -- I have de-HTMLed it but leave it here in plain text. --Z)