The Nintendo 64 could only handle about three polygons on screen at once, but you can apparently still get Portal working on it — with a lot of effort, at least.
N64 hacker James Lambert has made Nintendo's ill-fated '90s console do a lot of surprising things, such as displaying real-time shadows and cartoon-style cel-shading, but this is his most impressive feat yet. As the below video shows, Lambert has managed to get the basic gameplay of the classic Valve game Portal working on actual N64 hardware, and it actually looks pretty damn good, considering.
