ReBoot gets a reboot

by John Bardinelli on Jul 26th 2007 9:59AM

One of the first computer-animated TV programs, ReBoot, is about to get a second chance at life. Sure, even in 1994 the show was a bit campy and featured thin plots and bad voice acting, but look how shiny everything was! Now Rainmaker Animation is getting ready to "relaunch the brand in a new way" by releasing a series of three feature-length episodes.

The interesting bit is that we, potential viewers, help sculpt the plot. Five undiscovered writers were recruited by Rainmaker to prepare separate pitches for a new ReBoot storyline. These will be posted on the Zeros 2 Heroes website where visitors can work with each production team to help refine their ideas and later vote to choose their favorite pitch. "When it comes to long-standing genre entertainment properties, the fans are the real experts.", says Zeros 2 Heroes president Matt Toner.

Not a bad idea. Fans know what they want to see, and this way Rainmaker will ensure nearly everyone is satisfied. And if the ReBoot reboot tanks, fans can only get angry at themselves.

[Via Ain't It Cool News]

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Reader Comments (58)

OH WOW!

This brings back so many awesome memories from my childhood.

So are these going to be new episodes? Or what? Either way I'll definitely be watching...such a great show.

ReBoot had Tony Jay. Bad voice acting my arse.

I was thinking the same thing.

And the plot wasn't nearly as bad as everyone seems to be "remembering".

It got a little... crazy. Even weird at times after the second season, but it was never bad, or at least not as bad as people seem to be projecting.

Good memories with this show. Still cool to me. If they show new episodes, I'm watching.

Maybe they will announce a new Tron movie then, that would get me more excited.

ReBoot and Mighty Max were my life back then

which BOTH had Tony Jay

Amen to that

Alphanumeric!!

oh and jon Bardinelli? Watch the friggin show. Once it got to the second season it started having year long arcs long before it was cool in cartoons to do so. It was a show that any true geek could enjoy...if they actually watched the bitch.

And like was said earlier- Tony Jay doens`t equal bad acting.

I guess this means this show has died and revived as much as Family Guy. I hated how the new episodes from a few years back just suddenly dropped off with a cliffhanger.

Does this mean they are releasing DVD box sets or am I out of the loop and those are out already?

Woooooooo!

The show was a LOT better in the final season with the grown up Enzo. The earlier seasons, which cute, wern't really all that entertaining.

Hopefully they follow in that storyline and not regress back to the earlier stuff.

I hated the final season... it lost all the charm of the original shows, plus the characters were dull.

Hopefully they reboot it back to the original setting...

I want a mix of both. The odd campy feeling with the computer world threat.

holy mother of ****. This is the biggest news ever. I have no idea what this has to do with gaming but Im stoked.

But the original reboot was owend and animated by mainframe. The series was also left with a cliffhanger ending after season 4 which I would love to finally see finished. A question tho. Will this revisit contain the original voice actores?

Also lets hope for a proper DVD release. Season 1 and 2 have never been released to DVD while season 3 has seen a limited release 4 individual disc set by ADV Films. I would love to own them but each dvd is so rare that it costs nearly $60 per disc off ebay and the like. Then theres season 4 which is 8 episodes contained on a double sided disc, which was not a limited release and I happen to own :). Heres hoping for a season 1 and 2 release and 3 re-release.

Yea, i remember this series as well. Although, when it first aired, the Internet was just becoming more common place. There were no blackberries (or not as common), iPhone, Goolgle Maps, MySpace, WoW, YouTubeetc.. so, the concepts on which the show was based were pretty new fangled... but, maybe not so much today.

For those who missed the series, here ya go:

http://tv-links.co.uk/show.do/2/152

Oh awesome..I loved ReBoot back in my youth. And also, like Jody said Mighty Max. But ReBoot had been on my mind not too long ago, I was beginning to wonder whatever happened to the creators of the show and the show itself.

I searched online for the series on DVD to no avail, and hopefully with this rebirthing of the series they will release a new DVD set or something, I would love to sit down and relive one of my favorite of shows of my childhood.

I have all 40 episodes of mighty max on VHS that I recorded off of TV years ago. I just started watching through them again a few days ago. It really holds up quite well.

Damn you, Skullmaster!

I remember this show. Mostly the last season though. Transformers was my show to watch.(The ones were all the robots looked like animals).

You're talking about Beast Wars....

AWESOME SHOW

Maximals vs Predacons...Classic.

I feel bad for the youth of today. They just DON'T know...

Yea Beast Wars. Thanks. I use to watch that show as much as I watched DragonballZ.

I've seen those shows OVER 9000! times.

DBZ was off the mothafreaking chain!

Vegeta is probably one of the most badass villians in all of cartoon history.

Reboot was ahead of its time back when it started! Awesome show. Unforunately I missed a lot of episodes in the final season. It was quite a change from the previous seasons.

Bad voice acting? What are you smoking?

My digits!

ZOMG THE PLAYER IS LOADING A GAME

GET IN THERE AND WIN B4 HEXADECIMAL CHANGES HER FACE AGAIN

I learned an important lesson. Gigabyte is more than a megabyte. The reason the game cheats us is that so we don't destroy their world and that's why PC gamers and casual gamers destroy their computers due to so many games. That Bob becomes a cool name when applied to a bad ass. That you can't become smarter by turning everyone's processor speed down. And always listen to Fong.

I'm pretty sure it's name was Pong. (i say "it" because I don't know if it was a chick or a dude curse you deafness.)

omg its been forever, i even had the playstion game and now its back

I *still* have the playstation game... in a pile of my old PS games. But it was neat to play it...maybe I should get it out of the pile...

Why make new stuff when you can just rehash old stuff?

Don't get me wrong, I loved Reboot. But do we really need it... rebooted?

Does anyone remember gargoyles? Now that was a show that needs to be back on the air....so that scott bakula can do a voice and complete the cycle...

What we want to see? What we want to see!? They know damn well what we want to see, we want to see the cliffhanger ending of ReBoot resolved. =/

Mike: For the limited time offer we have the PS3! It has blu-ray and the CELL processor. It slices, it dices, it even julienne-fries! And if you ever tire it makes a great grill!
What price are we offering this great value? Why it's only 99 99 99 .99 DOLLARS!

This show was really great. I remember I even had Hack and Slash action figures!

In a way, it really got me interested in computers. I always wished I could access Mainframe and play the cool games the way they did. I really hope they can breathe new life into the series and make it shine again.

The shit does this have to do with video games?

in reboot the user loaded games into the computer, which caused 'game cubes' to drop on random places in mainframe

Thin plots? Bad voice acting? Were we watching the same Reboot?

All hail the mighty It Prints Money Mushroom Kingdom gif animator! And the earlier seasons were like that. Then it became more adult in the later seasons.

The story line was finished with the movies.
Then they did a musical that recapped the whole series at the end of the second movie.

Daemon Rising / My Two Bobs
Watch these and see the ending

I'm wondering what they would do for the voice of Megabyte. When Tony Jay died, I thought that would be the end of the series right there. When the voice actor for Bob changed, you couldn't tell, but how is anyone going to live up to, or replace, Tony Jay?

Awesome! Too bad it wont be the same... >_>

Favorite episode from reboot was the one with the rabid racoon game.

I think there were about 3 major sections that it got broken up into.

You had the first set which focused on Bob, where Enzo was young, then you had it shift to "Matrix" Enzo. then they wrapped up most of the plot points with the supervirus thing. I was a little dissatisfied with the ending, but I was glad they didn't leave that hanging.

Still, it's been so long since I saw it last that I can barely remember the running plot points.

Oh yeah. They never touched on the issue of Megabyte's Father being a Null, and that whole issue with reviving the Nulls and stuff. That was the last plot point that I was looking to see the series resolve.

"Not a bad idea. Fans know what they want to see, and this way Rainmaker will ensure nearly everyone is satisfied."

Yeah. Because fandom writes the BEST stories.

Seriously, between that and dissing the voice actors, are you just trolling?

OH MY GOD YES!!!!!!.
Reboot kicks ass,Thin plot my ass the show kicked ass in more ways that I can say.Watch the show Infidel!!!.

Reboot was the best Mainframe series ever and thats saying a lot remember Beast Wars and Planet Wars:Shadow Raiders.

Fans please dont screw it with shit,Half-baked,lousy IDEAS!!.

ok so are they "rebooting" the franchise(chuckle) or are new episodes going to start where the last season left off? I hope it' s the latter cause I really liked the seriousness of the last few seasons.

Psst--Joystiq! Learn to read :P It says they are making one or three feature length MOVIES not episodes :P

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