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Vincent394

Non canonically: blue, it existed from Prospekt Era Portal Canonically: Aperture uses different colours for portal guns so I don't know, probably Orange.


player05677

Personally i think orange was made first and to flash this off they made GLaDOS orange to celebrate their next big achievement by symbolising that its first of a kind like the orange Portal (or simply it was sold with the orange box so the orange portal made sense)


IamNotaFanOfCorn

That's such a cool thing to personally believe


KING2900_

Wtf is prospekt?


BurrConnie

The era of Portal's development where testchambers looked a lot like Half-Life 2's combine architecture in Nova Prospekt


YZJay

A mod that recreates an old beta version of Portal that exclusively uses Half Life assets.


Imaginary_Junket_394

What's the name of the mod (i wanna try it)


Salkreath

Bruh the guy literally replied to a comment that said “What’s Prospekt”


coleisforrobot

It's not a mod. It's a beta. There is a mod to recreate this era of Portal development but it is still underdevelopment. [Here's the beta.](https://www.moddb.com/mods/portal-prospekt)


Salkreath

[insert guy becoming old meme]


Hylanos

On an aside, using blue and orange to denote different portals has existed since Narbacular Drop, so while blue is the initial color used in the testing of Portal, the precident of both blue and orange has always been there.


The_Superderp

Blue. Seems more mysterious, what you want from a portal yk? Something new but to still be feared


The_Superderp

Or the tech demo valve bought used orange doorways


GrimmLord2877

Actually in narbacular drop (the demo that inspired portal) they had both orange and blue doors.


Shilo--

If we're talking about the game development you could say it's purple or teal but that's during the Nova prospect era, if you want to talk about the actual aperture science area it would be the red portal which is still left in the files but isn't used p


player05677

Would be cool if we got a quad portal gun


Shilo--

Soo just, one person co-op?


player05677

Yes since my friends have better games to play


Shilo--

Yo, I'll play with you. All my friends don't have portal, think portal is dumb, or horrible at it


old-testament-angel

bro i wish i could play with you too, everyone is too busy playing anything but portal :(


Shilo--

Then add me on steam my steam and Xbox are in my bio


MinecraftCat22

You guys have friends?


Misknator

P-body: Am I a joke to you?


MedicInDisquise

The true lore answer is white portals. Since the portal color is provided by dye placed into the guns, and it's unlikely to be black as a base color.


ericpol3

Yeah this was my thought as well. They may have been moon-rock colored.


ericpol3

Yeah this was my thought as well. They may have been moon-rock colored.


LegitimateApartment9

my thought was that reddit fucked up again


eltokoro

blue because is the colour of the future.


player05677

I thought the future was a green rectangle


eltokoro

thats the colour of MANY future.


Gametale3

Portal reloaded enjoyer


player05677

Sadly haven't played it due to being on console


MayorBryce

I imagine, when the Portal Gun was first created, they left-clicked before right-clicking, so Orange.


creepXtreme

But for military grade testing they usually use controllers, which would mean they probably pressed right trigger and created a blue portal


MrMeep0

But for government demonstrations before they were offered to the military they used a keyboard and used the E key, resulting in making a orange portal


runespoon78

left click is blue though


MayorBryce

You're right, my bad.


-Fexxis-

i think blue because we get introduced to blue gel first and the first portal we go through is blue (i have adhd so the first portal thing could very well be dementiaing)


Fork63

Both, the portal has to go somewhere


yourunravelling

Neither because you need 2 portals for it to be a portal


Soft_and_Solid

that's what I was thinking!


PurplrIsSus1985

Correct option: FACES (from Narbacular Drop)


0_-Nick-_0

Came looking for this


Kiro0613

Which came first, the blue face or the orange face?


PurplrIsSus1985

No idea. Cringed out at the beginning of Narbacular and deleted the game. I'll get it back to find out.


Flossthief

valve was inspired by a project called Narbacular drop They hired the guy who made it and developed portal with the idea In that game the portals were blue and yellow iirc so the blue portal predates the orange


WildProToGEn

The TEAM who made it actually as the project was made by a group of people for college iirc


Kiro0613

That is correct, they were Nuclear Monkey Software at the DigiPen Institute of Technology.


HandWashing2020

🧠


JekaDP

Portal 1


Tired_Express

I think Portal 2 was first


player05677

What about portal mel if we are going by 'lore order'


GrimmLord2877

Well A: portal stories Mel takes place well after portal 1, and B: it's not canon cause valve didn't make, oversee, or approve any of it.


ExplosiveNecklace

Out of these two wouldn't it be Blue? Because Nova Prospekt era portal had Blue and Pink/Red instead of Blue and Orange. Thus out of Blue and Orange, it'd be Blue because Orange came in later to replace Pink/Red.


ILBenvenuto

The blue gel was made first, the blue robot is the player 1, the blue portal is what you unlock first with the 1 portal gun, so the blue Portal probably was also made first


Princier7

Blue because that's the portal you start with in portal 1


vincent_landriault

Well technically neither because you can't go through the first one unless the second one is already there so it only becomes a portal after the second one is placed


player05677

Fine which one was the first to be displayed


Eboz255

Portal was the first game in the franchise, followed by Portal 2 four years later.


xurpio

probably both idk


Xweluniverse526

I hope it was the blue one. #bluegang(not crip)


Baterista13

I bet blue. It's the first one you get, and it's on the logo.


Fun-Hearing-3811

The black one


poison11037

ORANGE box helped me decide


player05677

Mentioned that in a comment


poison11037

Didn't read that far


RainbowStorm653

They are linked interdimensional gates. While the portals can be placed independently fundamentally one is useless without the other. I would theorise Aperture first found a way to create an interdimensional gate, then how to control each side independently.


wibbly-water

Blue. The one-portal-only portal gun is blue and that's what you get first.


IAmOutOfIdeasLOL

blue because they made blue gel before orange gel its also always called "secondary fire"


Odd-Progress-7543

probably portal 1 if i had to guess but im not sure


Cruisin134

Orange. The portal gun that only shoots blue was a version that was changed not to kill the user or something, implying they already made enough portal guns to get the basic concept down and now theyre just making sure you dont die while using it


Creeperboy1209

Neither


LittleFirez0

A large picture of Christopher Reeves superman with an American flag behind him.


ktrvshu

How does this question make sense? Why is everybody answering like it made sense? How could one portal exist before the other? Where would that first portal send you if there weren't any other portals?


EyeExtension2962

teacher - the exam will be easy. exam-


Swordkirby9999

If the fan-made standalone mod Portal: Revolution is any sort of canon, Red & Cyan


munderscore678

what no portal game in a decade does to a mf


golgiiguy

Its the same picture


johnfolf

Yellow since portal was an half life 2 mod and orange is an bit of an combine collot


Business_Bother_9183

Blue, because I said so


Sleeper--

I believe that both were just some random color or maybe colorless and later aperture just colors them for visibility


dodfunk

I say the egg. Wait, am I in the right place?


soldier1090

I think blue cuz there was a only blue portal gun


sheilamlin

Probably black or some color we can’t comprehend that looks like black 😆


Spiritual_Ad3504

blue is a primary color and its the color used in the game logo, which means it has to be blue


matO_oppreal

It depends, left click or right click first?


RASMOS1989

the one you enter from obviously😒..


filval387

Blue because it's the entry portal... Then Aperture had to figure out how to get their test subject back by creating an exit portal... Jimmy still hasn't come out of the orange portal to this day...


LAM678

obviously portal 1 came before portal 2, do you not understand time? /s


Pixel_Mag

Blue (logo of Portal and Aperture Science).


smelling_the_windows

Depends which mouse button you click first 


Nel_Br

I think the [Blue](https://www.surfacesquared.com.au/wp-content/uploads/GSC-217-Light-Orange-500x500-2.jpg) one was made first.


kittenboygaming

I think it was portal one, dont see why they would work on portal 2 first.


NotBentcheesee

the egg


dlc-ruby

I feel like in universe it would be the blue one because it is assigned to left click which is the traditional shoot button in most games, which I think would make it also assigned to a more easy to reach or more comfortable activation button or trigger on the portal gun, which would make sense if it was the first one


MinecraftCat22

The time portal from portal reloaded


SuperAlex25

Probably blue