The Matrix

From WE Computers Museum

This article is about the multimedia series. For the Llamasoft video game, see Matrix: Gridrunner 2.

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The Matrix
Developer Lana and Lilly Wachowski
Publisher Warner Bros. Entertainment
Platforms As noted below
Released 1999-present
Added to
Museum
As noted below

The Matrix is an American multimedia franchise created consisting of books, comics, films, music, and video games.

Lana and Lilly Wachowski created the franchise with the release of the eponymous film in 1999.

Information about the fictional world of The Matrix

Intelligent machines need humans for fuel. They connect humans to machines to extract what they need and create a simulated environment to distract the humans while doing so.

This virtual environment is known as the Matrix. It recreates life on Earth with so much vivid detail that most humans are unaware the world they are living in is only a simulation.

A resistance group, at one point led by a man named Morpheus, figured out how to escape the Matrix. The resistance recruits people by telling the truth about their simulated lives. They give the potential recruits the option to continue living their simulated reality or to escape the simulation and to enter into the bleak reality where machines control the majority of the human population.

Films in The Matrix series

Title Studio Release Added to museum Notes
The Matrix Warner Bros. Pictures 1999 DVD: February 15, 2022
The Matrix Reloaded Warner Bros. Pictures 2003 DVD: February 15, 2022
The Animatrix DNA, Madhouse, Silver Pictures, Square USA, Studio 4°C, Warner Bros. Animation 2003 DVD: February 15, 2022 Animated short films.
The Matrix Revolutions Warner Bros. Pictures 2003 DVD: February 15, 2022
The Matrix Resurrections Warner Bros. Pictures 2021 Not yet

Video games in The Matrix series

Title Developer Platforms Release Added to museum Notes
Enter the Matrix Shiny Entertainment GameCube, PS2, Xbox, Windows 2005 Not yet
The Matrix Online Monolith Productions Windows 2005 Not yet
The Matrix: Path of Neo Shiny Entertainment PS2, Xbox, Windows 2005 Not yet
The Matrix Awakens Epic Games PS5, Xbox Series X/S 2021 PS5: February 15, 2022