Remember When Minecraft Made a Watch?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 เม.ย. 2024
- The Minecraft Gameband is a strange product
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I thought this was the coolest thing as a kid
Lol me too, I remember being so excited to get it and then never actually using it to play Minecraft
my brother had one of these and gave it to me
As an adult this is the coolest thing and I might buy one
same
The gameband is a reference to gameband the hiest mc map
You might have noticed that I have a band aid on my finger. I considered postponing filming until my terrible injury was healed but I knew that wasn’t an option. The Minecraft Gameband demanded to be filmed right then and there and I had no choice but to comply
get well soon!!!!
can i have the bandaid when you’re done with it (my dog ate my thumb)
Hope the surgery went well🙏🙏
my dog bit my finger
@@nathan5421 I'm sorry to break out the news but they died...
the gameband is what caused me to always have a large, high quality usb drive on my keychain
What do you keep on it?
do you have a copy of minecraft on it?
@@BananaMana69😅
@@BananaMana69
Do yourself a favor. Don't ask questions. You don't want the awnswers.
@@BananaMana69your m-
This is one of the products ever made
It certainly is
What do you mean? It's a good product, how is it one of the worst products ever made???
@@DARK_AMBIGUOUS this is one of the comments ever
@@duqc correct
@@DARK_AMBIGUOUS Haha, I think your brain did the thing brains do sometimes where it reads a word that isn't there :P
always saw it online, always wanted it, forgot about it for years and now i can experience a bit of nostalgia for a thing i never had, amazing seeing the program too good stuff :)
Glad you enjoyed :)
I bought a Gameband when I was a kid, I thought it was so cool, but it was inflexible for a watch, pinched my skin/hair, died too fast to be useful as a watch and couldn't be plugged into a port directly, the Minecraft launcher was replaced shortly after and became Windows only without a portable edition, so the built-in launcher remained outdated forever, and the plastic clasp that held it together broke very quickly. It was all around cheap and a gimmick.
To be fair, the Minecraft launcher is not Windows only even today.
@@donovan6320 It was at that time, it upgraded from the launcher written in Java to a version of the launcher that was Windows only, it's since been ported and also rewritten a few times again
it was never windows only. @@ShayneHartford
@@polocatfan It absolutely was, when they created the new launcher after the launcher that was written in Java, for some time it was Windows only. I know, I created a program to automatically download java and the old launcher for Gameband because the game band software didn't yet update to use the new launcher.
So I wasn't just unlucky with the clasp.
I remember when they basically made a whole realm map to advertise this watch.
Are you talking about the map The Heist? That was so fun. I played it actually a couple months ago. It was amazing for its time, being for the version 1.8.8 IIRC.
I have a gameband. I plugged it in a few months back to see if I had anything stored on it and ended up finding screenshots and Minecraft logs from 2016 that I had lost a long time ago. It had my first screenshot I had taken on a server before that server became mega popular.
I think the gameband storage is full, try moving that big zip file with a ton of videos on it
I think you're right. I wouldn't think that band would have too much storage especially since its almost a decade old
Probably a good shout, cursory googling says the gameband had about 8gb of storage, of which the videos are taking up 1.5, that said the game should be about 1gb and each world 500mb, maybe 1-2gb if you've been in it for a couple of years, it could just be that it's incredibly slow since it's downloading and writing to a memory stick
This guy doesn't seem to be very "tech-savvy".
He doesn't even know what is a bat file, so yeah, his flash drive is probably full...
(At some point in the video you can see he looked online to see if a bat file can be a virus. lol)
Thanks guys, that was a good suggestion but I just checked and the gameband still has 3.4gb free so I don't think that's the issue.
@@Alfred-Neuman I know what a bat file is, I included that search in the video as something called a "joke". I wanted to subtly warn people not to download random bat files they find online, because there's a chance they could be dangerous.
@@MrWaffle739lmao
Wanted this as a kid SO badly, so got it Christmas last year. Was devastated to find it didn't work anymore. I loved the map made for it that was super popular at the time
4:20 No, I remember these "Game Bands". It's actually more practical to make something like it now, than it ever was back then. USB 2.0 (Edit: Obviously I was talking about the computers these would've plugged into, old school/library PCs that obviously wouldn't have a USB3 port!) is painfully slow when you were dealing with anything bigger than a couple megabytes, and Minecraft worlds still easily got over 5-10mb in size, meaning if library/lunch time was up, a kid caught unawares could end up late to class just waiting for the game to save. Today we have huge 400gb UHS-1 micro SD cards and USB 3.2 ports that can out-speed most hard drives when paired together, and there are plenty of indie titles that'd still benefit greatly from the portable solution. Darn, now I've made myself want that, it'd certainly be way more secure and reassuring to carry than dangling a USB drive/adapter from my keys.
In 2019 USB3 was already quite common, and this is most definitely a USB3 device, judging by the color of the plug
@@Tepiloxtl 1: GameBand is a product from 2014, my high school classmates had them, they weren't that useful, Sethbling got the first one in the world back then.
2. Blue plastic is not necessarily an indication of USB3 or USB2, it's the connectors inside, and yeah there were a few USB3 motherboards going back to 2009 (I still have my first one, a 2010 gigabyte board with an AMD FX CPU) you really didn't see USB3 show up in devices under $100 until around 2016.
According to this article from the gamebands launch it was USB3 www.pcmag.com/reviews/gameband-plus-minecraft
@@MrWaffle739 I was speaking to the assumption that blue plastic means a USB 3.0 interface. Though that explains the $80 MSRP, but not everyone had USB3 ports on their computer back in 2014, which was a big problem with these back then. The VAST majority of schools and libraries (where most kids/teens would have been using these) were still using computers as old as 2004.
@@KiraSlith Good point, fair enough
MY CREEPER WATCH WAS A SPINOFF?!
I had one of these! Until I forgot it in the school bathroom after washing my hands and never saw it again :(
Dudeee this brings me back. I saw this as a kid and thought it was the COOLEST thing ever
hahaha this reminds me, during the beta days, i used to carry a USB stick on my key-chain and had minecraft there, got it working with some scripts and also made it that i had java on it so i could play on pc's without java installed. like with school pc's, or my grandmother's computer where i didnt wanted to install anything. and i had my survival world with me! Great times :]
That’s awesome! You had a gameband before they existed lol
i used to keep a usb drive on me for school
(minecraft, halo exe, half life/ counter strike, and tron)
i actually had the diamond version as a kid! i dont know how expensive it is now but i feel special for having one
I don’t just still own the exact gameband, I still actually have a poster with that exact wallpaper at 5:30 in the video. This is a whole wave of nostalgia haha.
2:24 But can it play Bad Apple?
its only a matter of time...
Bloody hell, I remember wanting this thing when I was younger, didnt expect to see it pop up on my youtube recommend in 2024
I didn't have one, but a youtuber I watched around the time played an adventure map called "The Heist" and it was a REALLY cool map.
God, I loved that map. Didn't it get a sequel at some point?
@@TwiliPaladin Wait did it???
I remember popularmmos playing it
I bought one at a second hand store a few months ago, was super sad when none of the programs worked on new hardware.
They need to bring this back just for the nostalgia
Like actually making it work again
I could be remembering wrong, but didn't Gameband release an update that partially bricked their software whenever they switched over to trying to sell their failed game watches and stopped selling gamebands?
It seems like they also tried to make an effort to scrub the gameband's existence from the internet. Including the Heist map.
I used to own one, I absolutely adored it! But it kinda fell apart.
yeah, the whole thing was kind of a scam. StopDrop&Retro made a great video about the gameband, I'd recommend watching it.
I wish watches like that were more common
a simple watch that comes with a USB Flash Drive that lets you make silly lil animations on the display
sadly that'll never be, due to the Gameband company becoming a memory in many's minds
If you don't mind writing your own scripts to do it the pinetime watch might be up your ally. It's a LOT harder to use though
Glad to see a fellow Gameband owner try to destroy their files as well. I still love my band, even though the strap broke off.
Hell, I even use the band nowadays still, as a means to take my workshop stuff on the go.
i remember wanting this as a kid. I played the custom map called “The Heist” And i saw this as like a ad or something and when i searched it up on both youtube and google, it was so cool.
OMG I LOVED THIS AS A KID! Used to bring it to the computer lab in middle school where installing programs wasn’t allowed!
I never had this as a kid. But o do remember one of my favorite MC adventure maps as a kind being the Heist, which was heavily inspired by and included the gameband. You should def go back and try it if you’ve never played it
i've never had one, but i distinctly remember seeing them in the minecraft store and thinking that they are the coolest thing ever
I had one and it was great. This video also reminded me to replay the Gameband: The heist map
THE HEIST MAP THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT SINCE I SAW THIS
got one of these back in 2016 and it was the coolest thing ever, still have it and use it as a generic USB nowadays
i used to own it as a kid, best birthday gift ever :) thanks for the nostalgia
5:20 right click on the desktop -> show desktop icons. No need to move it all manually
I had one of those as a kid and thought it was the coolest thing ever. It was great for playing Minecraft on school computers.
I'm so glad I found this video. I had one of these as a kid, but even then it was old. I just got it working for the first time, which is really cool because of this!
holy hell, I had this as a kid but I lost it a long time ago... I played minecraft at school all the time lol
lol cool to hear that someone actually used it for its purpose
I remember I had the diamond version of this I loved it though I have no idea where it went sadly. It got lost when I moved. Still, a bunch of boxes I have yet to unpack in my garage might find it one day be a neat trip of nostalgia.
I uh somehow got mine to work make me so happy lol, online and everything lol. Excited that it kept my animations after i wiped it ngl but idk if the battery still works.
This just reminded me I had one, just spent an hour and a half looking for it and I found one of my first creative worlds on it, It had a castle I built with my best friend in 2 grade 🙏🙏, memories man fr
That’s awesome man!! Nothing better than loading up an old world, so glad you were able to find it
I wanted one of these at a summer camp for a prize so badly!
I had one of these!!! I wore it everywhere i went and stored my school projects and stuff on it :D
saw ur video for a first time today, ur channel is so cool!!
Thank you!
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i completely forgot about these until now lmao i really wanted one as a kid
One of my favourite minecraft maps was a promotion for gameband - The Heist by Cubehamster, where you collected different types of gamebands (hacking, sensing, magnet, teleportation) to break into a high-security facility.
Edit: AND MACHINARIUM!!! One of my favourite games too, I adore the setting and whimsical picture-based storytelling.
I saw this ristband in the Microsoft store in my local mall a long time ago. Really looked cool.
The nostalgia hit me so hard
I couldn't afford this as a kid but I really wanted one so I brought a usb and set it up to run and store minecraft just like the gameband
I remember playing a Heist map where you need to use these gamebands
I remember having this for few weeks, so much fun to use and play in go. Sadly I used it as a band and brought it to soon and soon broke, luckily I had refund but still. Also the red button switch animations if ya upload many pixel animation onto gameband
I HAD ONE OF THESE! i loved the different faces I could put on it. made a whole bunch of custom animations
I had one of these when I was younger. I just use it for operating system installers now.
Finally there is the one Internet Of Things device that actually work 9 years later! You can even adjust the display and use it as an USB drive!
There is something really cool about carrying around something like that. Like we have phones now but all the games are crap and what not. Gives me the same feeling as emulation.
this unlocked some ancient memories that i didn't know i had
I really wanted one back in the day but my country doesnt receive international shipping. glad to know theyre cheap af today, maybe ill get one
Man I remember seeing these things in stores but never getting one
I remember seeing the like "spy" adventure map for these bands that they made
I still have one. That was my first experience into custom maps.
this might unironically sell well for that retail price nowadays
I wish I bought one of these back then, as it would have been convenient to carry my game saves to another computer.
i had one of these as a kid, lost it when i moved house and am still upset about it
Omg i remember i really wanted one of these but products not in retail are just simply impossible to get back then in our economy
I own one, it's somewhere in storage
Here in the UK it didn't retail for nearly as high as you stated ($79.99) - I got it for around £30 to £40 new when it released.
It's not that good as an actual wristband, it's more of a display piece / novelty usb stick as the clasp is plastic only so it would smooth out and get loose after a while.
It's 8gb only as far as i remember, not that much even then for minecraft mods.
I still have it, I've bought it right after the launch, at 80$, but I was little and for me it was just amazing.
I thought this was just a thing from The Heist map from 1.8.9? I didn’t know this was a real thing?
this man has the best music taste ever
Lol thank you
you could probably get the game working if you manually add an update installation into the .minecraft folder
Minecraft: The Heist anyone? Basically a map where you break into a building and use some different gamebands!
awesome video! you should try copying over the worlds from the Gameband to your PC and see if there's anything interesting
such a cool little concept
What a cool little item, I’m all for a gameband renaissance. Bring back þe gameband!
I loved the Gameband.
I bought two because my first one locking system broke.
Later the second one broke the same way and I was not able to close it again.
I was so sad because I loved it and I love redstone.
My friend had this, we used it to play minecraft at school
I still have this, and I just use it as a regular usb flash drive and it most people don’t even know it is a usb flash drive.
i regularly think abt this thing, loved it
I remember we were all given this for pur after school minecraft coding class in 7th grade. It was so fun to make animations on it
You had an after school Minecraft coding class?? I’m so jealous, that would’ve been the highlight of my week in 7th grade lol
Lol we use to run games on our USB sticks in class all the time. Surprised we never tried Minecraft tbh
oh dear, I've totally forgotten about this thing lol. minecraft themed wearable usb stick with customizable animation, for $10, doesn't seem like a bad deal today.
IT HAD MINECRAFT ALREADY ON IT?! I HAD THIS BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A NORMAL USB
waitt i only knew gamebands from cubehamster's 'The Heist' map :O theyre a real thing ??? omg lol
Same i saw popularmmos play that map
Surprisingly I never heard of this, maybe because I did not have a computer in 2015 and hardly ever played Java
Hey, did you try to run the gameband.exe via the compatability filter that windows has? Some programs made way long ago won't run in modern windows, but if you right click it and run it via the compatability filter thingy, windows will load up the old proceses it would for older versions such as Windows 7, Vista, XP, and whatnot. Maybe the exe didn't innitially run cuz it was fucky with modern windows!
I still have one of these, I never really used it, but I actually had 2 at one point.
ive never heard of these, and i used to LOVE minecraft...
I remember sethblings video on this thing way back in the day and begging my parents for one of these. Sad I never got one, but honestly with how cheap they are, I might go for it now
I found mine during sophomore year of high school so I started using it as a normal usb drive with Minecraft on it
Turns out the exe file on the Gameband just opens a java file stored on the thing so all I did was make a batch file to replace it
Also the clip on it wares down so much after excessive use
I had this watch as a kid and I never knew it had Minecraft on it... I just thought it was a Collab for the design of the watch :O
wow thats awesome!
The only reason I knew of this things existence is the heist
This reminds me of the discontinued, Nike fuel bands
i remember playing one of the maps and I had the poster of your wallpaper
a better alternative to the gameband might as well be a handy-dandy 16gb intenso alu-stick, it takes a while to get _java_ and minecraft on it, and if you still have some left over, store some stuff in the stick (leave at least 4gb left on the stick) _java_ is optional if the pc already got java (21 due to recent versions)
I made a TH-cam video about this around 2019 when I got mine. It had a fix for something and people kept commenting under it and sadly i didnt have the file for the fix anymore.
Edit: THATS MY VIDEO!!! LOL
OH MY GOD THATS MY VIDEO!!!
Ah this!
I remember this gameband
That was years ago...
Im 22 now...
I had one
I was so sad when it didn’t work anymore.
I used to play on the web on Firefox or Internet explorer until that was shit down I moved to the game-band 👌
I need to find my gameband.
I still own my Redstone Gameband and remember wearing the bracelet all around middleschool and highschool. I'm 23 now haha
I happen to own one that still works.
However, it is pretty much an old trinket I don't really use at all, I did use it a bit when I first got it.
the heist is the best map ngl, even if it's product placement
I forgot about these did want one but was far too much for what it was. Now on the other hand I am tempted again.