1500 Megawatt Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button

"Please move quickly to the chamberlock, as the effects of prolonged exposure to the Button are not part of this test."

- GLaDOS

The 1500 Megawatt Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button is a typical cube-and-button based puzzle testing element used in several Test Chambers of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. These buttons can also calibrate the weight of Test Subjects.

Overview

 * Used in a series of triggers with other buttons (Super and/or small) or High Energy Pellet receivers, these Super Buttons seen on floors must be activated by a Test Subject in order to receive other testing elements, open up panels, or to unlock doors and many other puzzles. Usually triggered by placing a Weighted Storage Cube on the Super Button, or sometimes by test subjects standing on it. Super Buttons are often important in solving puzzles or simply completing a Test Chamber.


 * The Weighted Pivot Cube and Frankenturrets in Portal 2 are also usable on the Super Button.


 * The Edgeless Safety Cube Receptacle in Portal 2 serves the same purpose, only with Edgeless Safety Cubes instead. Safety Cubes can trigger Super Buttons, but just roll off it when not held in place.


 * In the Portal 2 cooperative campaign, the Super Buttons are occasionally replaced by Pressure Plates for placing Storage Cubes. This is most likely to prevent one co-op partner activating a switch and trapping the other player in the next area.


 * [[File:Early Aperture Science 1500 Megawatt Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button.jpg|thumb|200px|20th century Super Buttons.]]An earlier prototype of the Super Buttons is seen in the old condemned parts of the facility known as the Aperture Science Innovators test chambers. Serving a similar purpose to the current buttons, the old buttons are simplistic in design, made from a simple metal frame with spring wires under the red-painted metal sheet serving as a button.

Behind the scenes
As seen in the earliest known Portal screenshot and the original Portal trailer, the Super Button may have been originally white-colored. Although this is more likely due to the fact that the Super Buttons were yet to be textured, as the white colors of the model are typical to that of models that have just received a UV map.

List of appearances

 * Portal
 * Portal: First Slice
 * Portal: Still Alive
 * Portal ARG
 * PotatoFoolsDay ARG
 * Portal 2: Lab Rat
 * Portal 2
 * The Final Hours of Portal 2