When Games Collide

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: ReBoot: Season Two: When Games Collide

Megabyte's tampering causes two game cubes to crash and fuse together, creating a game which combines tanks and jet planes with T-Rex's and Pterodactyls. In order to win the game, Bob is forced to help Megabyte, but once they are back in Mainframe, the virus continues with his evil plan to send Enzo through an unstable portal to the supercomputer.
By D. Stuart, the ReBoot moderator on Tuesday, May 25, 1999 - 8:39 pm:

Enzo Matrix acquires the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the supercomputer, but how come we the viewers are never entitled to such a privilege? In fact, the spherical image projected from a stable portal appears to always be the same. Either each tear is at an identical angle to the supercomputer or the architects hailing to the supercomputer are rather trite.


By Joel Croteau on Friday, June 04, 1999 - 6:16 pm:

Doesn't MegaByte's portal look quite a bit like the Stargate?


By Mark Morgan on Friday, June 04, 1999 - 8:07 pm:

Why do I never get cool game crashes like this? All I ever get is to use a straight pin on the reset switch.

Access to the entire archive (including the all-powerful system paint command!), and Megabyte focuses on an old gate command? Obsessive, let me tell ya!

(Season 3 semi-spoiler!): apparently, Enzo either gets a flawed Guardian protocol, or his time in the game seriously damages it, because he later has *no* problems with Megabyte dying.

Another trip to the supercomputer, and Bob *still* doesn't bring anything cool back from the armory! Grr... (Then again, maybe he just didn't have the time.)


By Endoporpoise on Thursday, June 29, 2000 - 12:10 am:

Joel: I think it's supposed to. It's a reference.


By Peter Stoller on Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 10:19 pm:

This episode starts in a game. Bob has rebooted into a chrome robot like everyone else, and this time he wears a standard (black & white) icon instead of his usual Guardian icon. Has this ever happened before?

More of Mainframe is introduced: the Archive. it looks like the contents of the hard drive folder in there.

The next game lands on Silicon Tor. Megabyte doesn't (can't?) reboot into the game, so why is he a target for the User?

"Sir" is in the game, last seen with "Binky" in "Identity Crisis" part 1.

The Viral spies, Herr Doctor and Frankenstein's creature binomes are all back. Herr Doctor has a line, in his now familiar voice.


By Merat on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 2:21 pm:

The music at the opening of the episode is VERY similar (if not identical) to Beast Wars music.


By Merat on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 2:41 pm:

Also, when Enzo goes into the gate, the music echos "Into The Gate" from Stargate.


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