The (nominal) Return of Mainframe Animation's "ReBoot"
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Back in the very late 90's, I'd rush back to my dorm room after classes to try to catch Cartoon Network episodes of Mainframe Animation's "Reboot". (I think it was also occaisionally on ABC Saturday mornings or PBS, but Cartoon Network was the big distributor.) This was a computer-animated story about a bunch of "sprites" (people) and "binomes" (alpha-numeric and bit people) living inside of a computer, fighting or allying with viruses. With character names like "Dot Matrix" (the femme-fatale, "COMMAND.COM" heroine), "Megabyte" (the viral villain) and "Hack" and "Slash" (the gangster-with-a-heart henchmen) and a good-hearted attempt to poke fun at the games, tv shows and movies of the period (like the X-Files "Modem" and "Nully", Sailor Moon, etc.) the show attempted to take advantage of buzz words as comic relief for (what would become) a soap opera like story. All-in-all, very fun if not usually anywhere near an accurate representation of data operations. It lasted three seasons and then two movies ("season 4") and ended leaving alot of loose threads. If you've lasted this long into my lecture about a short-lived cartoon show, you'll hopefully be happy to hear that an online comic book is being published weekly that picks up the story from the end of the second movie. This 'season 5' sees (most of) our heroes celebrating the liberation of The Net only to face a much more out-of-their-league evil. Check out the new comic!
--Taf P.E.B.C.A.K. (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard)
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Back in the very late 90's, I'd rush back to my dorm room after classes to try to catch Cartoon Network episodes of Mainframe Animation's "Reboot". (I think it was also occaisionally on ABC Saturday mornings or PBS, but Cartoon Network was the big distributor.) This was a computer-animated story about a bunch of "sprites" (people) and "binomes" (alpha-numeric and bit people) living inside of a computer, fighting or allying with viruses. With character names like "Dot Matrix" (the femme-fatale, "COMMAND.COM" heroine), "Megabyte" (the viral villain) and "Hack" and "Slash" (the gangster-with-a-heart henchmen) and a good-hearted attempt to poke fun at the games, tv shows and movies of the period (like the X-Files "Modem" and "Nully", Sailor Moon, etc.) the show attempted to take advantage of buzz words as comic relief for (what would become) a soap opera like story. All-in-all, very fun if not usually anywhere near an accurate representation of data operations. It lasted three seasons and then two movies ("season 4") and ended leaving alot of loose threads. If you've lasted this long into my lecture about a short-lived cartoon show, you'll hopefully be happy to hear that an online comic book is being published weekly that picks up the story from the end of the second movie. This 'season 5' sees (most of) our heroes celebrating the liberation of The Net only to face a much more out-of-their-league evil. Check out the new comic!
--Taf P.E.B.C.A.K. (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard)
i love that show :( but mostly the early stuff. had great graphics for its time.
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Back in the very late 90's, I'd rush back to my dorm room after classes to try to catch Cartoon Network episodes of Mainframe Animation's "Reboot". (I think it was also occaisionally on ABC Saturday mornings or PBS, but Cartoon Network was the big distributor.) This was a computer-animated story about a bunch of "sprites" (people) and "binomes" (alpha-numeric and bit people) living inside of a computer, fighting or allying with viruses. With character names like "Dot Matrix" (the femme-fatale, "COMMAND.COM" heroine), "Megabyte" (the viral villain) and "Hack" and "Slash" (the gangster-with-a-heart henchmen) and a good-hearted attempt to poke fun at the games, tv shows and movies of the period (like the X-Files "Modem" and "Nully", Sailor Moon, etc.) the show attempted to take advantage of buzz words as comic relief for (what would become) a soap opera like story. All-in-all, very fun if not usually anywhere near an accurate representation of data operations. It lasted three seasons and then two movies ("season 4") and ended leaving alot of loose threads. If you've lasted this long into my lecture about a short-lived cartoon show, you'll hopefully be happy to hear that an online comic book is being published weekly that picks up the story from the end of the second movie. This 'season 5' sees (most of) our heroes celebrating the liberation of The Net only to face a much more out-of-their-league evil. Check out the new comic!
--Taf P.E.B.C.A.K. (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard)
Seasons 3 and 4 were released on DVD several years ago and I read that part of Season 3 is going to be re-released in the near future.
Steve
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Seasons 3 and 4 were released on DVD several years ago and I read that part of Season 3 is going to be re-released in the near future.
Steve
Why would they re-release Season 3? There have been a number of different box offerings of it. I was one of the first to buy the set though I was slow to buy Season 4. What they NEED to finally release on DVD is seasons 1 & 2. :)
--Taf P.E.B.C.A.K. (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard)
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Why would they re-release Season 3? There have been a number of different box offerings of it. I was one of the first to buy the set though I was slow to buy Season 4. What they NEED to finally release on DVD is seasons 1 & 2. :)
--Taf P.E.B.C.A.K. (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard)
because Season 3 hasn't been available thru normal channels for quite some time.
Steve
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because Season 3 hasn't been available thru normal channels for quite some time.
Steve
yeah its sad, ive never seen it on TV since then... you know, i grew-up with this kind of animation (having all hopes on me becoming Bob someday)... :cool: i thought i was all alone, until this post came along...
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