"Game Over" is the fourth episode of Season 3 of ReBoot, the fourth episode of the arc To Mend and Defend, and the twenty-seventh episode overall. It originally aired on August 7, 1997 on ITV and September 10, 1997 on YTV.
DVD Log Line[]
Megabyte uses Hexadecimal's viral energy to penetrate the firewall. Enzo, AndrAIa and Frisket enter a game they can't win. —ReBoot: The Definitive Mainframe Edition
Synopsis[]
Cultural References[]
- The Game, Immortal Konflict, is a Mortal Kombat parody.
- The character Enzo reboots as, Disnia, resembles the Mortal Kombat character Scorpion.
- AndrAIa's Kali-esque character may be a more oblique reference to Sheeva, who is named after another Hindu deity.
- "I don't believe in the no-win scenario" was originally said by James T. Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.[1] (This is its first use in ReBoot.)
Trivia[]
- Production number gag: "Prepare auto-defence mode, 9704!" (4th episode produced in 1997)
- Phong mentions "the time discrepancies between virtual space and Game space," our first hint of the time differential.
- The title of the Game, Immortal Konflict, is known primarily from concept art.