Something about Portals makes it fun even in its most rudimentary form.
For instance, Jonathan Coulton’s song Still Alive is entertaining in every iteration evar. There is something magical about that game that managed to ensnare the hearts of everyone who played a first person shooter or puzzle game. However the genius of a puzzle shooter has transcended the first person shooter genre, beyond the graphical pizazz of flash and now moved into the distinctly non-GUI realm of ASCII.
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