"Still Alive" Trivia Quiz

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Although waking up as a test subject inside the Aperture Science Enrichment Center might seem a little silly early on in the game, especially when you're provided a fascinating portal gun prototype to play around with, the cracks in the facade will emerge very quickly, even to the point where you'll end up needing to make an escape through the backrooms and maintenance corridors of the almost limitless building to break free of the dangerous chambers within.

GLaDOS, the AI responsible for overseeing the experiment, will be revealed to have gone rogue; no living scientists will be left in the building. All you can do is proceed despite GLaDOS' cloying and often humour, scrambling with the unique circumstances (and gun) to find your way out and maybe-- just maybe-- get a slice of cake. You know; to celebrate.

"Still Alive" will play once you've overcome all of your challenges and defeated GLaDOS in the end. Playing in the end credits as they're typed out on the screen for you, the lyrics will allude to some of the comments, names, places, and things that've occurred throughout the game, referencing places found in the "Half-Life" series (which the game is somewhat related to) and alluding to the delicious and moist cake you may have been disingenuously promised.

The track itself, written by then-popular online musician Jonathan Coulton, turned out to have lasting success in the gaming space. "Still Alive's" contents were meme-worthy; the track appeared in rhythm games like "Rock Band as DLC. It struck the balance between legitimate earworm and cheekiness that shot it into immense popularity in the gaming sphere in a way that most songs made for game soundtracks simply never would.

And people heard it! Despite it being buried in the end credits, "Portal" was a breakaway success on nearly all consoles and platforms, becoming one of the top-selling puzzle-platformers of its generation. Sure enough, the insistence that GLaDOS was still alive led to the inevitable sequel, "Portal 2", which released in 2011 (four years later). Coulton returned to record a new song, titled "Want You Gone" for the follow-up, but it didn't have the same catchiness.