Portal: A Computer Novel
| Developer: Nexa | Graphics: |
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| Publisher: Activision | Sound: |
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| Year: 1986 | Difficulty: |
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| Genre: Adventure | Lastability: |
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| Number of players: 1 | Rating: |
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After a century-long mission, a cosmonaut returns to find Earth depopulated. His only companion is an amnesiac supercomputer named Homer…
The goal of the game is to figure out what happened to your kind, that is, to search through databases to recover bits of information as they resurface. There are very few interactions. Apart from the story, which is doled out in dribs and drabs, all in English and not particularly well written, embellished with scientific mumbo-jumbo and multicoloured graphics … it’s pretty much empty space.
Note that for the game to work, the (virtual) floppy disks must be unprotected.
A similar concept was applied in Her Story (PC, 2015) and Observation (PC, 2020).
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