20 Iconic Gaming Moments You Must See Before You Die

10. Still Alive - Portal

Valve
Valve

We all know that bakery-themed meme by now, and yes, while most of us consider it to be a tired trope that needs to die in a fire for being overused, the Cake Is - and always will be - A Lie.

Nobody expected GLaDOS to deliver on her promise of a tasty treat for forcing Chell to traverse Aperture Science's death-defying portal course, but we all soldiered on, none the less.

The real reward for jumping through all those portals and escaping from GLaDOS' clutches wasn't a freshly baked treat, but a musical number sung by none other than the the robot herself. Who knew a voice synthesizer could make such wonderful music?

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Contributor

Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.