What is Portal Pinball?
Portal Pinball is a pinball video game released in 2012 that is themed after the popular Portal puzzle-platform video game series. It features the iconic characters, settings, and humor of the Portal universe in the form of a set of fast-paced, challenging pinball tables.
The game includes three pinball tables to play - Portal, Aperture Science, and Calibration Course - each with their own distinct visual style and unique gameplay elements and objectives drawn from the Portal games. Tables feature appearances from characters like GLaDOS, Wheatley, and the Weighted Companion Cube, as well as Portal elements like flinging, gels, lasers, and of course, portals.
Gameplay involves using flippers, bumpers, ramps, portals, and trapdoors to guide pinballs to complete objectives and rack up as high of a score as possible before losing the ball. Players can utilize gadgets like the portal gun, repulsion gel, propulsion gel, and more to control the ball's movement and solve puzzles built into the tables. The games require skill, precision aiming, and quick reflexes to keep balls in play.
With challenging physics, Portal-themed graphics and audio, and lots of references for fans to enjoy, Portal Pinball provides an entertaining mashup of pinball combined with the clever puzzles and humor the Portal series is known for.
Pinball Arcade, Zen Pinball, PinOut!, Pinball Deluxe, Marvel Pinball, Pinball FX, Pinball playground arcade, Hyperspace Pinball, Pro Pinball Ultra, Vector Pinball are some alternatives to Portal Pinball.