Portal

Portal is a pinball game based on the Portal series of video games from Valve. While playing the game, you will interact with many physical and virtual features modeled after elements from the Portal 1 and Portal 2 video games. The physical playfield is packed full of interactive mechs and 10 RGB illuminated physical playfield portals and 6 additional scoop portals, through which the pinball can “travel through” instantly.

There are two editions of the game, Portal Standard and Portal Extended. Both editions include the same upper playfield module and game software, while the extended edition also includes the Portal module extension. The Portal module extension floats over the screen and brings gameplay closer to the flippers with additional decorated catwalks, a physical spinner, four physical targets, a third dynamic ramp, the hidden gel tube kickback mechanism, and the elevated, cross-playfield Hard Light Bridge experience. After adding a connection point to your left side target module, swapping in the Portal module extension is as simple as removing the inlane wireforms, lowering the module extension in from above, securing it with 4 screws, and connecting the cable harnesses to their mates on the sides of the upper playfield module. The game software detects the presence of the module extension and adjusts the game rules accordingly.

Portal Standard is a 3-flipper game (including the flipper in the LOFT on the module).  Portal Extended also uses the left side target flipper, making it a 4-flipper game. The Portal Extended Game Kit therefore requires a Left Side-Target Flipper Assembly. New P³s come with this flipper assembly pre-installed. P³s built prior to 2022 did not.

To buy a new P³ machines with Portal installed:
P³ with Portal Standard
P³ with Portal Extended

To buy a standalone Portal game kits for existing P³ owners:
Portal Standard Game Kit
Portal Extended Game Kit

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Gameplay

Each player starts gameplay in “the Hub” which is thematically similar to the Portal 2 Cooperative Testing Initiative location of the same name.  In the Hub you will meet Reggie, the “Teambuilding” Personality Core (voiced by Marc Silk) who will encourage and direct you to complete specific objectives or enter and complete the 7 unique Test Chambers.  After completing all the chambers you will have the chance to battle GLaDOS (voiced by Ellen McLain), the AI antagonist who supervises and taunts you throughout the game.  If you complete all the test chambers, you can play the final wizard mode: a face-to-face battle with GLaDOS.

The Test Chambers include:

• The Big Fling 
• Encouragement via Discouragement 
• Proactive Energy Redirection
• It Takes Two
• Shortcuts
• Gels
• Rat Man’s Den 

When not in a specific Test Chamber, your goal in the Hub is to prove your skills and increase your score by completing each of 8 objectives and 3 stackable Multiball Modes.  Each Objective and Multiball focuses on different aspects of the physical playfield.

The Hub Objectives are:

• Ramp Combos
• Loop Combos
• Repulsion Gel
• Momentum Jump
• Portal Mini-Loops
• Hard Light Bridge
• All Ports
• All Targets

The Multiballs available in the Hub are stackable with one another, feature an add-a-ball component, and can be stacked with objectives. They include:

• Faith Plate Multiball
• Turret Multiball
• Edgeless Safety Cube Multiball

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Upper Playfield Module

The physical playfield is a beautifully decorated environment with shots and features designed after elements from the Portal universe:

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Portal Extended