A simplistic shoot-’em-up by cartoonist David Willis, featuring the character that would eventually become the basis for the character of Ultra Car in his webcomics, It’s Walky! and Shortpacked!
Portal was an ambitious attempt to tell a story with the depth of a novel and the interactivity of a game, sitting somewhere between interactive fiction and simulation of a computer system.
The game starts with the player’s spacecraft docked inside the mothership at the top of the screen. Below the mothership is an asteroid field and below that, the surface of the moon. There are three platforms which can be landed on and six stranded [...]
Men are lined up the right side of the screen and alien ships fly out, swirl around the screen and eventually try to grab the men. This was one of the first all color graphics games and might be the first one that used speech. Some of the phrases are [...]
