Game-a-day Countdown 80

There are 80 days till the series reboot of "Deeds Of Yore".  In honor of the 80's and as a fun way to countdown to the reboot, I'm posting a short C64 game review each day for the next 80 days.  All will be games I've played at least once, all games are guaranteed to be at least almost awesome.  Let's get to it...

 #80  Portal.  Ok, portal is not so much a game as it is a novel, in fact they call it an "interactive novel".  It's not all that interactive. You are an astronaut who goes on one of the first deep space missions and comes back, and because of the whole relativity time thing over a hundred years have passed.  You land back on Earth and everyone is gone.  All that remains is a computer network with and AI interface that seeks answers to why everyone is gone.  You have to go through the network to various locations and find information such as time lines, transcripts, and narratives that eventually piece the story together.  To play Portal you need to be hardcore Sci-Fi, and willing to put up with a future network interface that is particularly low tech.  Like all of us in the 80's the creators of Portal didn't expect smart phones, and i pads and stuff like that.  Nobody back then (short of a few visionaries) actually imagined the Internet as it is today.  So Portal is dated, it's slow, and there is no action, but it's a good story, and it's told in a creative way.  I loved it as a kid, I still like to boot it up just to check out the 80's version of  a  "future" OS.  It's worth a look if you have time.

Portal on Gamebase64