Reboot: Seasons 1 & 2 [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Used to watch this series with my kids when it came out. I loved it as much as they did, except only season 1 and 2 were shown in the UK. And I'm not sure if every episode was broadcast.Season 1 is the best - who didn't love the X-files episode, featuring Fax Modem and Data Nully?Great thing is, my grandson loves this too, so I have excuse to watch it all over again. Not that I need an excuse...The best thing about Reboot is they weren't stupid enough to use processor names. After all, when this was made most home computers had a processor that ran in megahertz not multi-cored gigahertz processors, and had they had less than 1 megabyte of ram and may be a gigabyte in hard-drive space. How things have changed.If you remember Reboot (or even if you don't) buy this and the second disc set. You won't regret it.REBOOT!

I remember watching this series as a kid, and now that I've returned to it many years later, It's just as good as I remember. The premise behind the series is that it's set in a computerised city, with inhabitants such as humanoid "sprites", "Guardian" security programs, and the Binomes, who are designed to look like either 1's or 0's. The flies in the ointment are the two computer viruses Megabyte and Hexadecimal, who launch an attempt to take over the city just about every episode.To everyone who watched this when young, I'd recommend it, you won't be disappointed with revisiting such delights as the Mega-truck, the Funhouse and Mike the mighty warrior. And, if that isn't enough sell, you can laugh yourself hoarse ( as I have) at the array of "how did they get away with that?" Parodies and pastiches of everything from Power Rangers to the Village People!

love reboot.

Best ever

Imagine if your computer didn't just have a bunch of chips and wires, but a whole civilization inside it.That's "ReBoot: Seasons One & Two," a clever little series based around the people who live and work in the cybercity of Mainframe. The plots are sometimes a little weak (it is a kid's show, after all), but the quirky, surreal animation, oddball characters and nerd in-jokes are hugely entertaining.Bob is the Guardian of Mainframe, meaning that he's supposed to eliminate threats to the people of the city. When he isn't dealing with crises, he hangs out with his friends, including the feisty businesswoman Dot Matrix, her troublemaking little brother Enzo, and the elderly, sorta-robotesque system administrator Phong.At least once an episode, the godlike User downloads games into Mainframe, meaning that Bob and his friends must successfully play against him -- or be turned into sluglike Nulls. Additionally, there are a couple of powerful viruses who are always trying to take down all of Mainframe and/or bend it to their wills -- the Machievellian Megabyte, and the chaotic mask-wearing Hexadecimal. Both constantly try to destroy each other, as well as all of Mainframe.Every episode has a crisis of some kind -- Codemasters, the Medusa bug, a plague of stupidity, a gateway into the Supercomputer, brain invasion, software pirates, abductions, a "Nullzilla," magnets, and a mysterious power that threatens Mainframe with the most devastating virus ever made..."Reboot" was made in the 1990s, so obviously it looks kind of crude by modern standards. But what it lacks in polish it more than makes up for with creativity -- bright colors, delightfully kooky designs, and a streak of surrealism a mile wide. For instance, at one point Hexadecimal uses Photoshop to turn the entire city into an ever-shifting Dali nightmare... brilliant.The weakest part is perhaps the plots, which can be a little weak (an entire episode devoted to Enzo's birthday!). But they get a lot stronger as the series goes on, and the second half of the second season is particularly brilliant -- a tense, taut arc involving a mysterious black substance that invades Mainframe and possesses the viruses.And even in the fluffier plots, there's a lot of funny dialogue ("How do you plan for that?" "Uh, lucky guess") and nerd jokes (the "ancient languages"). A few of them are annoying, like Mike the TV's constant mugging, but most are pretty entertaining."ReBoot: Seasons One & Two" is a "spritely," colorful little series, with middling storylines but brilliant visuals. Reboot!