Does anyone remember the "Reboot" cartoon?

[piloting]

I'm curious to know if anyone remembers ReBoot.That was a particualry good CGI cartoon back in the day when CGI wa kind of new.Not as overused as it seems like in todays anmation.It was also really unique in how it's all takes place and is about these entities that live inside a computer.That pretty hilarious if you think about it.Could you imagine if they continued that show today how much would change and/or be different on that show what with our MP3's,smartphones,better wireless connections etc?.It's kind of lousy though how (I think) it ended with a cliffhanger during that big like war with Megabyte they could'nt figure out which of the two Bob's was the real one.Does anyone else have any thoughts on that show?.It just seems like a significant classic cartoon to me.

[Inkthinker]

It was pretty cool for the day, but it doesn't hold up so well anymore (the graphics are seriously dated). You can pick up the whole series on DVD, and it ain't even bank-breakingly expensive (about $50 on Amazon). The season 3 ending is a pretty good series cap, if the cliffhanger bothers you much.

I mostly remember being fond of it because it was so obviously carrying a torch for Tron, but I'm guessing that itch will now be scratched by the new Tron series on the horizon. Nevertheless, there are rumours of a Reboot reboot out there. I'd watch it.

[blackphoenix]

Of course I remember that show!!! I t was awesome! It really got cool when Dot's little brother Enzo and his girlfriend AndrAIa got trapped in the games and came back as kick ass adults! Here's the opening credits for the season when that took place: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufy_T81I070

Another cool part was where the Guardian Bob merged with his...um...Guardian device and turned silver all over. Very cool show.

[ryan_filler]

I recently just watched the entire show on YouTube, but its since been taken down. The best parts were the first two seasons when they were going through the games and all the parodies they worked in that way. Yeah, it ended on a cliff hanger because they were trying to get a fourth season, but there were talks of them making a new movie that was supposed to come out this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zscrv7OJ3TU
Obviously that didn't happen, but I think it would be cool. I don't know if they're still working on it or not.

[Kaim]

I actually just recently bought the first two seasons on DVD and have been rewatching it. It's a classic for sure. I need to hunt down the third, though, it was definitely my favourite.


I recently just watched the entire show on YouTube, but its since been taken down. The best parts were the first two seasons when they were going through the games and all the parodies they worked in that way. Yeah, it ended on a cliff hanger because they were trying to get a fourth season, but there were talks of them making a new movie that was supposed to come out this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zscrv7OJ3TU
Obviously that didn't happen, but I think it would be cool. I don't know if they're still working on it or not.

Back in the day they made two movies which they now often market as eight separate episodes constituting the fourth season. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ReBoot_episodes#Season_4_.282001.29

[BrotherUnitNo_4]

Reboot for me definitely got better the further they went along.

Check out some awesome character redesigns.

http://mattrhodes.deviantart.com/art/Reboot-reboot-161550179

http://mattrhodes.deviantart.com/art/Reboot-continued-176666098

[4sake]

Oh yeah.. That was a pretty great show.. :cool:

[shades of eternity]

thee show that proved to the world that cgi storytelling can be amazing.

while dated cgi wise, the story is strong as nails.

funny, adventurous, an amazing world and they did something that most shows of the time wouldn't have the raw balls to do.

take the kid sidekick and make him grow up hard to be a mighty embittered hero.

plus

Megabyte is Metal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1GNtKLgjA)

I so hope the movie holds up.

[The Transient Guest]

That megabyte video is attributed as being the inspiration for the game genre we call now "guitar hero."

......And it also has one of the greatest penis jokes in all animationdom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgenRZvn8ik

[The Iron Fist]

Heh I remember this show for sure, good stuff.

[daveageallen]

i liked when they went into a horror game and had to fight ash from army of darkness. and dot was elvira from plan 9 from outer space.

what a good show.

[ryan_filler]

That show had a lot of adult jokes in it, which was nice catching all of them when I recently watched it.

I think my favorite "game-joke" was when the first introduced Enzo and the grown up Matrix and they were all Mars Attacks characters.

Does anyone else think Hexadecimal was one of the creepiest villains from the 90s? I really hated when the turned her into a hero at the end.

Also, did anyone realize that the all of the major problems can be traced back to Mike the TV singing opera?

[Kaim]

Hexadecimal freaked me out, and given the amount of time they spent establishing that she was batshit crazy, her redemption always grated me a little too.

[Charles RB]

That cliffhanger still irritates me, more so when I saw an ex-Mainframe staffer admit on a ReBoot board "we did it so there'd be more episodes commissioned". Whoops.

But that's why they did the S2 cliffhanger too, and I loved that one as a kid. It was exciting watching the status quo crack, but did anyone really expect Megabyte to outright win and Enzo to be left as the last hope against a superior foe? And kudos to Mainframe, they didn't wimp out in S3 but took it all to its natural conclusion.

[Redem]

Reboot probably one of my favourite serie ever, just wish it had been given a proper ending


That cliffhanger still irritates me, more so when I saw an ex-Mainframe staffer admit on a ReBoot board "we did it so there'd be more episodes commissioned". Whoops.

But that's why they did the S2 cliffhanger too, and I loved that one as a kid. It was exciting watching the status quo crack, but did anyone really expect Megabyte to outright win and Enzo to be left as the last hope against a superior foe? And kudos to Mainframe, they didn't wimp out in S3 but took it all to its natural conclusion.

Being in Quebec you had to wait a bit and we ended up waitting forever to even reach the point were Bob sent into the web

however one day me and my brother watched "World Wide War" on MTV one day and we were damn right confuse seeing Enzo given guardian stripe and Bob apparently disapearing (we couldn't understand english) took years I believe we got the full story

[blackphoenix]

That show had a lot of adult jokes in it, which was nice catching all of them when I recently watched it.



Yeah, like the one when the search engine dude that looks like the Silver Surfer told one of the villains "You should try logging off every once in a while; it helps relieve stress" or something like that.:evilsmile:

[Young Avenger]

Didn't ReBoot get revived as a webcomic a few years ago?

I was huge fan of the show. I remember watching it on ABC and later on Toonami a few years later. Sadly, my memory of the show is fizzy. All I can remember is liking it

[ryan_filler]

There was a web comic, but it skipped over the cliffhanger the series ended on and went right on to another story that took place a few years later. I wasn't that impressed with the comic, but that might have been because I was hoping it would wrap up where the show left of and it didn't.

[Personamanx]

Used to love the show man. Really wish that the series got a proper ending after My Two Bobs. The Webcomic was not very good.

I might actually buy the first two seasons on DVD. Both of them only cost 20 dollars at Wal-Mart and last time I checked they had plenty of copies left.

[Inkthinker]

Is there something wrong with the Amazon boxset? It gives you ALL the episodes, all three and a half seasons (or three seasons plus two movies) and it costs $45.

[dumbstruck]

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[Charles RB]

There was a web comic, but it skipped over the cliffhanger the series ended on

Nah, the comic started around where that left off - Megabyte was in control of Mainframe and destroying it, so everyone was evacuating the System (and the post-Daemon Guardians were on the brink of collapse).

[ryan_filler]

The one I read was way in the future and Enzo was graduating from the Guardian Academy, and Megabyte had aligned with some other faction that was trying to destroy Mainframe. We must be talking about two different comics, but I'd like to read the one you're talking about.

[Charles RB]

It's the same one, but the stuff I mentioned is in the first issue and the second one has what you're talking about - and the third one wraps it all up really quickly because the writers were originally told they had more issues to work with.

[90'sCartoonMan]

I loved Reboot. The first two seasons were great, and the third season was just amazing with how ballsy it got. Yeah, it's a shame it ended on a cliffhanger, but it's still one of my favorite cartoons from the 90's. Definitely need to get it on DVD.



Does anyone else think Hexadecimal was one of the creepiest villains from the 90s? I really hated when the turned her into a hero at the end.

She was definitely creepy, I loved the mask motif. Although now I'm creeped out by the "Warning: Incoming Game" voice because it reminds me of GLADOS.



Also, did anyone realize that the all of the major problems can be traced back to Mike the TV singing opera?

Maybe indirectly, but that web creature was still sent there by Daemon. It would've found its way to Mainframe whether Mike shattered that glass or not.