I thought this was the coolest thing as a kid

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

the gameband is what caused me to always have a large, high quality usb drive on my keychain

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 :)

This is one of the products ever made

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was replaced shortly after and became Windows only without a portable edition, so the built-in launcher remained outdated forever, and the plastic clasp that held it together broke very quickly.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.

I remember when they basically made a whole realm map to advertise this watch.

I think the gameband storage is full, try moving that big zip file with a ton of videos on it

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.

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.

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

i actually had the diamond version as a kid! i dont know how expensive it is now but i feel special for having one

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 :]

Dudeee this brings me back. I saw this as a kid and thought it was the COOLEST thing ever

I had one of these! Until I forgot it in the school bathroom after washing my hands and never saw it 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.

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?

I bought one at a second hand store a few months ago, was super sad when none of the programs worked on new hardware.

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

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.

MY CREEPER WATCH WAS A SPINOFF?!

I had one and it was great. This video also reminded me to replay the Gameband: The heist map

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 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

saw ur video for a first time today, ur channel is 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'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!

5:20 right click on the desktop -> show desktop icons. No need to move it all manually

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.

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.

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

awesome video! you should try copying over the worlds from the Gameband to your PC and see if there's anything interesting

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

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 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.

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 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 HAD ONE OF THESE! i loved the different faces I could put on it. made a whole bunch of custom animations

I wanted one of these at a summer camp for a prize so badly!

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.

Machinaruim mentioned 🔥🔥🔥

this man has the best music taste ever

I had one of these when I was younger. I just use it for operating system installers now.

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

I still have one. That was my first experience into custom maps.

such a cool little concept

i completely forgot about these until now lmao i really wanted one as a kid

i remember playing one of the maps and I had the poster of your wallpaper

The nostalgia hit me so hard

I made a KZfaq 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

i regularly think abt this thing, loved it

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 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.

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

bro why don’t u have so much subs like why don’t u have 1M? bro ur underrated ngl

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 still have it, I've bought it right after the launch, at 80$, but I was little and for me it was just amazing.

What a cool little item, I’m all for a gameband renaissance. Bring back þe gameband!

Man I remember seeing these things in stores but never getting one

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.

I wish I bought one of these back then, as it would have been convenient to carry my game saves to another computer.

I remember seeing the like "spy" adventure map for these bands that they made

Minecraft: The Heist anyone? Basically a map where you break into a building and use some different gamebands!

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

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

this unlocked some ancient memories that i didn't know i had

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 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 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

i had one of these as a kid, lost it when i moved house and am still upset about it

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!

waitt i only knew gamebands from cubehamster's 'The Heist' map :O theyre a real thing ??? omg lol

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.

this might unironically sell well for that retail price nowadays

Lol we use to run games on our USB sticks in class all the time. Surprised we never tried Minecraft tbh

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!

Surprisingly I never heard of this, maybe because I did not have a computer in 2015 and hardly ever played Java

You can make a portable Minecraft install today with 3rd party launchers like Prism. It's also not easy to set up but I think its worth it

you could probably get the game working if you manually add an update installation into the .minecraft folder

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.

My friend had this, we used it to play minecraft at school

I still have one of these, I never really used it, but I actually had 2 at one point.

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 still own my Redstone Gameband and remember wearing the bracelet all around middleschool and highschool. I'm 23 now haha

This reminds me of the discontinued, Nike fuel bands

ive never heard of these, and i used to LOVE minecraft...

The only reason I knew of this things existence is the heist

great video I just bought one for myself

This looks like a gamer’s collar bomb

To fix the launcher you could try to replace the old launcher files with some new ones

IT HAD MINECRAFT ALREADY ON IT?! I HAD THIS BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A NORMAL USB

does the stick still have the included worlds?

Ngl i brought mine to college with me back in the day!

You have the same wallpaper as i have xD

Btw! idk what i did differently but using the files from that depo I got the launcher to connect to the internet and play 1.20.4 using a flash drive C:

the heist is the best map ngl, even if it's product placement

Yooooo I remember playing Machinarium, It looked cool but I didn't have money to buy it so I jailbroken my iPod to get it for free and it was so cool

I wanted this so badly.