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Legend has spent years making Portal for the N64 and by Gaben he's done it (www.pcgamer.com)

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Several years ago PCG reported on the early stages of a project by programmer James Lambert, who really loves the N64 and decided for the hell of it to make a version of Portal that runs on hardware first released in 1996.

Well, Lambert is clearly the type of chap who commits to something and then follows through, because he's spent the time since then continually adding bits and bobs and now has something which, to my admittedly uneducated eyes, is the most impressive homebrew game I've ever seen.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's documenting his progress on YouTube, pretty interesting!

https://www.youtube.com/@happycoder1989

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know demakes are all the rage, but I don't know if this counts. It's just... the game, but on console hardware from a decade before Portal. That's really impressive, especially given just how restrictive some of the limits of the N64 are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That makes sense. I think demakes have a bit of retro style, but if he's recreating the game it might be closer to the whole "running doom on any piece of technology" trend. Gameplay wise it's the same doom, it's just on an ATM now.