Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device

Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device is a video game object that appears in 4 games

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The Portal Gun is a gun... that fires portals. The player controls where both sides of the portal end up.

Chell holding the device

The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device appears in Portal when it is given to the protagonist of the game, Chell, as she takes part in a non-voluntary enrichment program.Chell receives the device near the start of thegame,and for a while it only has the ability to place a single portal, as the other is created automatically depending on the level. Further on into the game however, Chell is presented with another device which allows her to place a second, and final portal.

The Portal Gun is the means to which the player completes the various courses set by GLaDOS. It creates two portals, an orange and a blue. As the player travels through one, their speed is conserved as they are instantaneously transported to the next portal. This provides advantages such as obtaining momentum to cross a gap, or creating a portal above an enemy, through which a weighted cube can be dropped. Another one of the Portal Gun's useful functions is the fact that is acts as a Gravity Gun, allowing certain objects to be picked up and carried easily, suspended in the air. Some limitations to the device are the fact that it cannot create portals on uneven surfaces, or any other material designed by Aperture Science to not allow portals. The gun is also disabled as it passes through what GLaDOS calls "MaterialEmancipation Grids". Portals cannot be fired through these grids, and as the player travels through one, all currently open portals in the level are closed.

Because the portal gun is given to the participant (or maybe participants) as a means of testing how the human brain works, it is ironic then, that the device then becomes the sole reason that Chell manages to destroy GLaDOS and escape the Enrichment Center.

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Name	Platforms	Developer
Portal 2	PC	Valve Corporation
Portal: Still Alive released on Oct. 22, 2008	XBLM	Valve Corporation
The Orange Box released on Oct. 10, 2007	X360, PS3, PC	Valve Corporation
Portal released on Oct. 9, 2007	PC	EA UK, Valve Corporation