WARNING: INCOMING GAME

[jacquel]

[Red Dragon]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

Wait, what is this... I don't even...

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

I'm interested.

Also, I just realized, Reboot beat the Matrix by a decade.

[DK]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

Aside from the two having nothing to do from each other, you're right!

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

They both involved a world inside a computer, and I don't care that that's the only similarity.

[John Mora]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

Also Reboot was like 1993 or 1994... not exactly a decade before The Matrix.

[Perversion]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

I'm not sure what Reboot is, but who was it a few years ago that was on a big Reboot kick for a while?

[Jehuty]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

I'm not sure what Reboot is

I... I don't even know what to say to that.

The Reboot... uh, reboot. Has been in the works now for over a year hasn't it?

[jacquel]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

Tron outdates them both and is far more similar to ReBoot in concept than the Matrix. : p

[Perversion]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

I'm gonna be John Mora here...someone do my diligent 5 second Google search for me and tell me what Reboot is. Is it anime? A kids cartoon? For some reason, I keep thinking it's like Clutch Cargo or something.

[ChaosKnightXD]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

I remember this, it used to be on Toonami.

[Jehuty]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

I'm gonna be John Mora here...someone do my diligent 5 second Google search for me and tell me what Reboot is. Is it anime? A kids cartoon? For some reason, I keep thinking it's like Clutch Cargo or something.

It was a kids cartoon from 1994 to 2001. It was the first computer generated 'cartoon', and was set inside a computer.

The characters and plot were derived from computer terms, for example "Guardians" were protagonists charged with defending a "system". Viruses were antagonists, as was a nameless god-like "user" which ran game programs.

Game programs were a destructive force in the form of "Game cubes", if the sprites within lost the game(ie. The user won) the area the game cube enveloped was deleted.

The series was made by Mainframe, the same company that made the "Beast Wars" transformers series. The 3D art was revolutionary at the time, but looks horrible given recent standards.

[Loki]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

More importantly: the show was notable because it dropped the episodic nature half-way through the second season and began telling a long form continuing narrative and building a mythology. There's a time skip where the main character goes missing and two of the younger characters grow up and take on his role until he is found. The show was cancelled before it a proper ending, though a couple of lighter/happier endings were shoehorned in at the end of the third and fourth seasons. The main story was picked up in an official webcomic a couple years back but fans have been clamoring for a new season or movie for years.

The later stuff was pretty darn good for being about computer dudes playing games in a computer.

Also: come on guys. It's "ReBoot." The B is capitalized.

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

GROOVEH



Loved this show so much. Had some of the best season finale episodes of anything ever. And Tony Jay played the main villain. That instantly makes it amazing.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: WARNING: INCOMING GAME

this was one of my favorite showing growing up. this was a first and it was made in canada!

never saw much of last few seasons though, only a handful of episodes.