ReBoot
November 7, 2003
The animated series ReBoot was the first television series “produced entirely with computer graphics. It premiered in the [United States] September 10, 1994 on ABC. It has been shown in 70 countries including the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Australia, and those in western Europe and South America. The show has been dubbed in several languages, among them Spanish, French, and German.
ReBoot [was] a highly original, clever show, with fast action and dozens of computer puns, in-jokes and pop culture references. But don’t worry — you don’t have to be a programmer to get caught up in [the tongue-in-cheek references]. Most of the action takes place in the universe Mainframe, a computer on the internet. Most episodes center around Bob, Dot, and Enzo, their adventures and misadventures, and their conflicts with the evil Megabyte. Often the User (one of us) will input a game, and the characters will “reboot” into game characters — wizards, knights, or race car drivers, for example.
Freed from network censorship, ReBoot took on a much more serious look and feel in season 3, which began airing in the U.S. March 15, 1999. AndrAIa and Enzo underwent major upgrades, Enzo now calling himself Matrix. The relationship between he and AndrAIa developed from puppy love into a serious romance, and Megabyte and Hexadecimal became brutal — even ruthless — in their attempts to conquer Mainframe.”
The character Phong was my favorite. I even attempted to create an alternate version of Pong with Tiki masks as the paddles and named the game “Phong” after the ReBoot character. A few years back a ReBoot game debuted on Playstation (original flavor) and while it wasn’t groundbreaking like the show it did manage to entertain me for a few weeks.
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3 comments
ReBoot was the shizzle.
by rizzodan on November 7, 2003 at 2:14 pm. #
I remember this great ‘Kartoon’. I always liked the dog and the kid on the skateboard. Glad to see you and Matt are getting some quality time in before he ‘ships out’.
Brothers have a special bond…you and Matt sure share a special relationship.
I’m proud to call you both my sons, my friends.
– Dad
by Dad on November 7, 2003 at 6:03 pm. #
I remember the last episode.. The entire series “rebooted” back to the orginal version. Enzo, Bob, Dot and the others went back to when the show first began.. They even joked about making a TV show out of what happen… It was a great series, not as good as Beast Wars though..
by Matt on November 7, 2003 at 7:13 pm. #