I'll never forget when one of my cubeworld guys walked through 3 WHOLE CUBES just to hang with the homie. For those that don't know that's incredibly rare. They usually move to the one next to them. Not 3 over
@@shadowbonnie2763 if the cubes are still connected (like via above cube) nothing, if the cube the guy is in and the cube the guy is from are not connected then the guy disintegrates
Dude, when I had those as a kid, I had 3 stick figures freaking out over a fire jusf to have the fire fighter hop in and put the flames out. Was awesome
Imagine putting a ton of cubes together in a certain order only to discover a long undiscovered cube world ARG that plays through the cubes like one big TV screen
Half the reason these were so cool is if you and a bunch of friends all got like 2 or 3 of them you could take them into school and make a huge stick city/world thing with 20-30 cubes for the time you were hanging out. I don’t think the intention was for every single kid to collect them all. It was a friends thing!
True, there was always some super rich kid who would come in with a whole city of cube world in my class, meanwhile me and my friend were rocking up adding our measly 3 cubes to his coliseum
I honestly thought I was one of the last people on Earth to remember these toys. Look up Cube World, and all you see is the game that's named the same.
@@dattos140 eeeehhhh, not really. It got "released" finally, in a state much worse than the alpha. And this was after many years of radio silence. And now he's back to radio silence with no updates since "release".
@@Sqweamish what? They updated via email to people who emailed them, how do you think the subreddit got all the images of new builds? Also only like 2 people made this game so give em a brake
@@dattos140 Sorry, not sympathetic to people who ask for money for a game then go radio silent on those who paid for it. I shouldn't have to go to a subreddit for screenshots as a form of update every 6 months or so, especially when those screenshots weren't representative of what we actually got at release. Lots of the stuff in those screenshots never made it in. Again, there has been no communication or updates since release in September. That's not ok.
ThatOnePotato my brother and I had a rich friend who had this huge ass house and literally any kid from the age of 3-20 to enjoy. He had soooooo many of these things and he would let us play with them for like 2 minutes and then get rude and insist we do something else.
Yeah I just found this guy and I can say the words "hipster trash" in his background picture define this guy... Exactly 0%. He's reviewing things I got from my GRANDMOTHER. I used to actually play with these _at my grandmother's_
The point of Cube World was that it acknowledged it was a simulation versus being something you took care of - that's why they were boasting about the animations. You got tamagotchi or another 'pet' type game if you were looking for that, but in some ways Cube World marketed itself as the more mature progression of that concept. "Little kids playing these games and taking care of these fake pets that have no depth and barely do 10 animations? Bah, I'm a 10 year old! I understand the rudimentary concepts of simulations! You don't need to try to convince me it's real, since I know it's not. Instead, I want to see the potential of what can be done!" In that was it was nearing closer to the Sims, but tangible and with quirks of particular characters versus a general AI. To be honest, I think the concept was really fun, and I enjoyed watching them, but the difficulty of target audience was its Achilles heel. Because even as a 10 year old or whatever, you do get tired of it after a while. I think they should have gone more towards teens or adults who had the patience and expectations to not be playing a game but building a simulation.
I think the concept could. e marketed to an older demographic if they revamp it and maybe make it worth while to spend 3 hours of minimum wage on 2 toy cubes.
You don't really need a text wall to explain that. It uses animation quantity in its marketing because that is something you would want out of it. Comparing it to a fully fledged video game is false equivalency because it is much smaller.
I played with them a TON as a kid lol. But I guess that was just me. I envisioned stories behind each of mine. Imagination is the key to enjoying these.
I imagine having a wall of these connected together, whilst having an entire bank of AC power supplies replacing the batteries, so I could run them as long as I want and could easily simulate thanos snapping the universe by simply switching off the surge protector
You are a twisted monster. Imagine all the poor stick families mourning the loss of dozens of loved ones, wishing to die but unable to escape the virtual hell scape you trapped them in. How could you?
tbh they're pretty fun, but it's sorta a people watching/sim thing, so the novelty of watching them do their thing can easily wear off for some (I still love em, personally, and even want more to this day).
The cost to get them at this point would be one thing. Cost of batteries would be another. I remember getting the first four for Christmas one year, and we watched them so long the batteries died by New Year's. They don't run on AAA or AA batteries, they're those CR2032 button batteries. Which, in this day and age, are basically $5 a pop. Then there's the sad fact that, unless you push the buttons regularly, they only stay on for about five minutes before going to sleep.
there was a toy with a similar idea but "for girls" which I owned when I was a kid called pixel chix or chicks (I don't remember which one it was). that may be an interesting topic for a video
xD it was pixel chicks and these where also available in Germany ...it where some houses with lid screen and you could stick them together. DOn't know if you could play with them like with a Tamagotchi
Pixel Chix did have legitimately more gameplay, right? At least definitely more detail. It was one of those things I remember wanting for its abilities and not being allowed to get it because it was for girls. I remember that happening with a Lizzie McGuire notebook I mentioned wanting in a CVS once. I “got” a Barbie Nutcracker set which I feel like was more forgivable to my parents because they knew I appreciated the story telling and having the fighting as a large part of it but I remember the gift of the movie and dolls was “for my mom” in an attempt to give her a nostalgic gift even though she’s never been that type of person, but I just kinda scooped up and monopolized them. I think I might have legitimately had some Powerpuff Girls toys. Man, I haven’t thought about this in years. I just want an EZ bake oven so I can make pizza with it, dammit!
@@johnkoch9315 I remember one of my friends being extremely jealous of my Littlest Petshop treehouse playset because there were triggers activated by the pets' magnetic paws. He asked why there wasn't a boy version. I remember loving his Bionicles too lol
I remember an ad for them in a magazine and seeing them behind the counter in a hobby/toy/book/comic/game/collectible (the place was honestly really cool) store that I regret not visiting more often before it closed...
But wait, there's more! There's a version of this cubes with a hole in one side where you can put your finger in and your digitalized finger will appear on the screen, but I'm not sure if those were made by the same company
i had one! the gameplay was not exactly amusing, at least not to the extent of other virtual pets as pixel chix or tamagotchi. It worked more as a clock that had some interesting minigames, and well, for the time, the idea of a toy where you could use your fingers to directly interact with it virtually was innovative and crazy. the big problem of the tuttuki bako is that it eat batteries super quickly, and there wasn't a way to turn it off (not that i knew of) so i would had to buy batteries for it every 2 months or so
Wow, that fever dream actually existed. I love this channel, as a child that watched a channel just filled with toy ads, I saw a lot of stuff, I didn't even believe some really existed
Now that I think about it. . my mom loved my brother and I for paying for a 2pck. I think we might have had 4 combined so that right there is $60 on stupid little cubes that we got bored of after a month or so
@@alechernandez5506 you have self awareness just to realise that man I’ve heard people complain that they only got 4. I get that the appeal is having loads of them but at the same time I don’t see a kid spending much more time with 100 cubes then they would with 3-4
I remember seeing CubeWorld in Toys R Us (rest in peace) when I was younger and being intrigued, but never actually get it, as with a lot of things I see and am intrigued by.
Cube world seems like a virtual/easier to manage version of an ant farm, which is pretty interesting! Seeing how the characters interact when being put together and how you can take a portion of them and put them somewhere else is a pretty neat concept! I would love to see a videogame version of this where you don't have to buy each cube individually and the characters have much more interesting interactions, kinda like a more "simulation-ey" version of tomodachi life.
It's like, I didn't even know I knew of these, until I saw this. And even now, the memories are like unattached, they have no context, I don't know where or when I saw these, my age, or if I even wanted these... lol
I remember finding them for like $5 on clearance and then they tried charging me $30 for them. I was like 10. Thankfully my mom was there at the time to call them on their shit.
I remember playing with these at my rich friend's house! there was also one with girls in their houses and I liked that one more Edit: PIXEL CHIX! THEY'RE CALLED PIXEL CHIX!
oh man, I remember having one of these when I was really small! I remember laughing at the fart jokes, but I never figured out they had games in them, what did I do with them if not play? I smacked them against the wall with the gyroscope, and them I just stared at them
I had 8 cubes and loved them. They were great as a block on the back of my desk where you never knew what characters would be up to each time you looked up. Less a toy for me, more an interesting art piece
Whip looks like he's into some uhhhh...fun things 👀 But I remember my parents buying me some of these. I liked the minigame ones, but the original ones I got bored with fairly quickly
This was so dope when I was young, me and my sis would get different ones and see how they all interacted, and with a little imagination these were hours of fun
When I was a kid I wanted one of those so bad, but never had the “permission” to buy it so basically each time we went to the store that sold them I would play with them there
Oh my god I think I requested this topic. I’m pretty sure I still have my fairly big collection of them. I even had the mods and was sort of sad when they came to an end, but I was getting bored of them by that time.
I remember my sister and I got some of these and loved them. My mom found a bunch of the two packs for like $9 or something ridiculously cheap, and we had a shit load of them! We had boxes of them, like at one point we turned out game room into an actual cube city.
cube world always seemed pretty cool but even as a kid I realized "wow i'd need waaaaay more of these than it'd be worth to make this as cool as it could be" and the batteries are a nightmare i never imagined
In second grade this one guy in my class had this Casio looking watch that was gold painted and could show these short animations of 2 tiny stickmen shooting, punching, and stabbing each other. I NEED TO KNOW WHAT IT IS CALLED
“there’s the wonderful occasion of finding something you completely forgot about. It’s always a treat to uncover some long forgotten memories...like I forgot that I ordered this thing 2 weeks ago” LMAO
oh man, i remember when i was a kid and wanting one of these so bad. i would beg my parents but never got one. Seeing this is a wave of strange nostalgia.
I've always wanted to get my hands on a couple, especially if they span a few generations. It would be interesting to reverse engineer them and see if the protocol truly supports communicating new animations to older blocks.
I remember only having one of these and no friends with one so I tried tricking it with my Scannerz, Tamagatchi, and magnets. That last one made me think it was working for a second before turning off lol.
These things were unironically the black gold of my old school. EVERYONE WAS OBSESSED with these things. I only had a small basic red cube but this one kid had that giant cube and everyone wanted to be his friend. Simpler times, huh.
I really wanted to play with these when I was a kid. I never got any. I guess it all payed off though... now that we have idle games for our phones that are free and do more
It’s kinda interesting for me to see this so soon. Considering my rope to discovering this thing, through a guy that was a major fan of them in college during my last year of doing IT and before Media (Film And TV for those wondering, in general). He would always talk about it and I was pretty interested in it regardless despite his absurd love for ‘em, mostly because of how clean and pixelated they are. Not gonna like, I would like some emulator for these guys for my phone/tablet.
Holy hell I just found my green one of these like a month ago when I was cleaning all my junk out of my room. Donno what happend to my pink one but the green one still works
I remember when I was little and got one of these for Christmas. We got stuck in a two hour traffic jam and I sat there and played with my single cube world the entire time. Lol
God, I remember wanting this so badly when I was little. I think my parents always said no because they knew it was one of those things you needed to buy a bunch of to have any fun with.
I never owned these, but I remember seeing the commercials for them over and over again. I think at that point I was already bored of Tamogachi, so this didn't grab me.
I can't believe in the span of ten seconds you showed a matt fraction hawkeye gn and a sonic the hedgehog tiger electronic game, both of which I own. Excellent taste, bro 👍
Broooooooooooooo, I remember having this, I remember wanting to make my own actual world but everyone kept saying it would be “impractical” and that it’s “a waste of money”.
This toy was absolutely my favorite growing up. I had a whole bunch of different blocks stacked up and I’d love to wake up and see them interact with eachother. It was a super unique toy at the time.
@@cherrybansx7398 what its like its like the toy but you can program different boxes and stuff and it could be like its own community and stuff you can program different responses to different boxes that are unique make your own minigames animations all of that stuff and you can visit peoples boxes and expand apon them together, you can also interact with the stick figures even more like a kick the buddy game
I've always wanted those since I was a kid! My mom never thought the price was justified, but I still dream of the day that I own the complete set and whatever exclusives that're out there
I am certain that these games were just a massive fever dream. I literally remembered them today and googled "cube game where the magnets allow men to travel to the next cube" AND IT CAME UP. I have the og yellow and red ones, funny part is that for all the years I had them I never changed their batteries once! (that being said when they did run out of battery I kinda didn't have the interest)
You have dragged one of my most repressed memories up from the deepest parts of my brain. Seriously, just seeing the thumbnail unlocked so many memories I didn't even think I could remember.
omg yes! I had a pixel chick too, you could connect other houses, or malls. I indeed remember thinking it gets boring after a while, and I still have deeply ingrained in my head the voice of that little girl complaining I abandoned her lmao
Dazai - I remember my friend having the mall and me enjoying that best compared to the houses alone. The add ons had alil longer playability but still not for long. Still good memories tho. I liked the look of a old Polly pocket house and furniture that the pixel chix could interact with
This was a perfect coverage of it. I'm honestly glad they exsisted. Something about them was charming. I don't find that type of charm much these days.
I remember collecting all and the same of these things and never got bored with them for hours and stacked in many different ways. I still have these to this very day.
I remember seeing commercials for these things as a kid and thinking "those look cool... but I need to have like 10 of them to do anything fun with them, and it was hard enough convincing my parents to get me a Tamagotchi."
I very clearly remember seeing these in Walmart as a kid and wanting them every time. And I’ve been thinking about them and what ever happened to them but never knew the name nor could Google help me find something like “digital stick people in portable cubes”
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If I was a streamer, I would probs place these in the background so along with the gameplay, they got some stick guys to watch.
Like a virtual aquarium
@@rattyeely Exactly.
Thats actually a really cool idea! If I ever become a streamer I'll do it!
Good bye wallet.
You might be onto something....imagine a new one that integrates with your games too. Like you win a match and it cheers you on lol
Honestly as a kid I found Cube World to be pretty immersive at the time with how the cubes you connect would interact.
Me too!
I thought they were the coolest things out there
Anyone who starts a sentence off with "honestly"is usually full of shit...js.
What's up with this Name? When you say Cube World, normally people think of something different than this here, you know?
How irritating...
@@robocockmurphy5994
I sometimes do it but hate myself when I catch what I'm about to say.
I'll never forget when one of my cubeworld guys walked through 3 WHOLE CUBES just to hang with the homie. For those that don't know that's incredibly rare. They usually move to the one next to them. Not 3 over
😮
That's the greatest thing I've ever heard, never had one but now I do.
@@shadowbonnie2763 if the cubes are still connected (like via above cube) nothing, if the cube the guy is in and the cube the guy is from are not connected then the guy disintegrates
Dude, when I had those as a kid, I had 3 stick figures freaking out over a fire jusf to have the fire fighter hop in and put the flames out. Was awesome
Some of these situations actually sound interesting. I only had one as a kid, so you could imagine how quickly I grew tired of it.
Imagine putting a ton of cubes together in a certain order only to discover a long undiscovered cube world ARG that plays through the cubes like one big TV screen
Imagine doing the right code and you get "Connection Terminated."
I have a few of them and if you put Global Get-A-Way and Block Bash side by side you get a cruise ship
Half the reason these were so cool is if you and a bunch of friends all got like 2 or 3 of them you could take them into school and make a huge stick city/world thing with 20-30 cubes for the time you were hanging out. I don’t think the intention was for every single kid to collect them all. It was a friends thing!
True, there was always some super rich kid who would come in with a whole city of cube world in my class, meanwhile me and my friend were rocking up adding our measly 3 cubes to his coliseum
Ah, needing friends. Always my limiting factor. Even as a kid.
@@agnetalykins7564MOOD
Oh sure show off about having friends when you were a kid...
@@agnetalykins7564 Pokemon was to monster collection as Scott Pilgrim was to women
I honestly thought I was one of the last people on Earth to remember these toys. Look up Cube World, and all you see is the game that's named the same.
The game was a flop too.
@@KatouMegumiosu game is still getting updated doe
@@dattos140 eeeehhhh, not really. It got "released" finally, in a state much worse than the alpha. And this was after many years of radio silence. And now he's back to radio silence with no updates since "release".
@@Sqweamish what? They updated via email to people who emailed them, how do you think the subreddit got all the images of new builds? Also only like 2 people made this game so give em a brake
@@dattos140 Sorry, not sympathetic to people who ask for money for a game then go radio silent on those who paid for it. I shouldn't have to go to a subreddit for screenshots as a form of update every 6 months or so, especially when those screenshots weren't representative of what we actually got at release. Lots of the stuff in those screenshots never made it in. Again, there has been no communication or updates since release in September. That's not ok.
I can only imagine walking into a friends house and seeing an entire wall filled with this
I had a friend with at least 60 of these, it was real, and pretty cool
And then immediately asking parents if you could stay the night just so you could play with them
Why just a wall, why not the entire house?
I want that friend
ThatOnePotato my brother and I had a rich friend who had this huge ass house and literally any kid from the age of 3-20 to enjoy. He had soooooo many of these things and he would let us play with them for like 2 minutes and then get rude and insist we do something else.
My favorite cube was the one that would light its resident on fire, who would then spread it to other rooms
That's the one I had! Hooray! Arson!
@@guhjjify Death by immolation! Whee!
Man, kid's toys are weird.
Wait, what? 😂
I had at least four, and two of mine were slim and scoop. One of mine would beat up anyone who entered his cube.
They should make a rerelease of these they would sell like hot cakes
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY YEARS IVE BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER WHAT THESE THINGS WERE CALLED
14 YEARS
@@aaameatballproductions4557 YES
Fax bro
I swearrr
BRO SAME
Whenever Billiam uploads a video, you look at the thumbnail and immediately remember something you completely forgot about for the last 13 years.
Yep, this a thousand times. I, for some reason, thought of the voxel-based PC game at first since it goes by the same name, lmao.
Yup this is true
Yeah I just found this guy and I can say the words "hipster trash" in his background picture define this guy... Exactly 0%. He's reviewing things I got from my GRANDMOTHER. I used to actually play with these _at my grandmother's_
The point of Cube World was that it acknowledged it was a simulation versus being something you took care of - that's why they were boasting about the animations. You got tamagotchi or another 'pet' type game if you were looking for that, but in some ways Cube World marketed itself as the more mature progression of that concept.
"Little kids playing these games and taking care of these fake pets that have no depth and barely do 10 animations? Bah, I'm a 10 year old! I understand the rudimentary concepts of simulations! You don't need to try to convince me it's real, since I know it's not. Instead, I want to see the potential of what can be done!" In that was it was nearing closer to the Sims, but tangible and with quirks of particular characters versus a general AI.
To be honest, I think the concept was really fun, and I enjoyed watching them, but the difficulty of target audience was its Achilles heel. Because even as a 10 year old or whatever, you do get tired of it after a while. I think they should have gone more towards teens or adults who had the patience and expectations to not be playing a game but building a simulation.
So like a low budget sims?
I think they just wanted to appeal to newgrounds kids
I think the concept could. e marketed to an older demographic if they revamp it and maybe make it worth while to spend 3 hours of minimum wage on 2 toy cubes.
You don't really need a text wall to explain that. It uses animation quantity in its marketing because that is something you would want out of it. Comparing it to a fully fledged video game is false equivalency because it is much smaller.
I played with them a TON as a kid lol. But I guess that was just me. I envisioned stories behind each of mine.
Imagination is the key to enjoying these.
I imagine having a wall of these connected together, whilst having an entire bank of AC power supplies replacing the batteries, so I could run them as long as I want and could easily simulate thanos snapping the universe by simply switching off the surge protector
@@thatoneguy487 lol
You are a twisted monster. Imagine all the poor stick families mourning the loss of dozens of loved ones, wishing to die but unable to escape the virtual hell scape you trapped them in. How could you?
@@notgray88 dont need to worry i will turn them off too
Yo are you okay
I feel like maybe you have some personal stuff you need to work through. 🤣
I remember wanting them SO BAD, but I'm actually glad my parents never actually bought them because I probably would've got bored in a week
tbh they're pretty fun, but it's sorta a people watching/sim thing, so the novelty of watching them do their thing can easily wear off for some (I still love em, personally, and even want more to this day).
So my question is why has nobody ever made a continuous twitch stream with these little cube dudes? That could be kinda fascinating
Virtually unknown? Plus expensive
I would definitely watch it
The cost to get them at this point would be one thing. Cost of batteries would be another.
I remember getting the first four for Christmas one year, and we watched them so long the batteries died by New Year's.
They don't run on AAA or AA batteries, they're those CR2032 button batteries. Which, in this day and age, are basically $5 a pop.
Then there's the sad fact that, unless you push the buttons regularly, they only stay on for about five minutes before going to sleep.
“This video game has tons of animations” is literally how they sold assassin’s creed 3.
"You can climb a tree like a monkey, now you go into the snow and you're slow, that'll be 60$ please"
Ubisoft - E3 2012
I completely forgot about this, too.
@Royal Messiah There's a difference between poking fun at something and complaining, no need to be butthurt about it
@Royal Messiah STFU shitstain LMAOOOOO
@Royal Messiah Go buy the yearly AC and CoD you shitter.
there was a toy with a similar idea but "for girls" which I owned when I was a kid called pixel chix or chicks (I don't remember which one it was). that may be an interesting topic for a video
xD it was pixel chicks and these where also available in Germany ...it where some houses with lid screen and you could stick them together. DOn't know if you could play with them like with a Tamagotchi
Oh dang, I think it might have been spelled with the x, I totally forgot
Pixel Chix did have legitimately more gameplay, right? At least definitely more detail. It was one of those things I remember wanting for its abilities and not being allowed to get it because it was for girls. I remember that happening with a Lizzie McGuire notebook I mentioned wanting in a CVS once. I “got” a Barbie Nutcracker set which I feel like was more forgivable to my parents because they knew I appreciated the story telling and having the fighting as a large part of it but I remember the gift of the movie and dolls was “for my mom” in an attempt to give her a nostalgic gift even though she’s never been that type of person, but I just kinda scooped up and monopolized them. I think I might have legitimately had some Powerpuff Girls toys. Man, I haven’t thought about this in years. I just want an EZ bake oven so I can make pizza with it, dammit!
@@johnkoch9315 I remember one of my friends being extremely jealous of my Littlest Petshop treehouse playset because there were triggers activated by the pets' magnetic paws. He asked why there wasn't a boy version. I remember loving his Bionicles too lol
I remember an ad for them in a magazine and seeing them behind the counter in a hobby/toy/book/comic/game/collectible (the place was honestly really cool) store that I regret not visiting more often before it closed...
But wait, there's more! There's a version of this cubes with a hole in one side where you can put your finger in and your digitalized finger will appear on the screen, but I'm not sure if those were made by the same company
I found them, they are called "Tuttuki bako" and those are made by Bandai
I'm happy I'm not the only one who thought of that.
i had one! the gameplay was not exactly amusing, at least not to the extent of other virtual pets as pixel chix or tamagotchi. It worked more as a clock that had some interesting minigames, and well, for the time, the idea of a toy where you could use your fingers to directly interact with it virtually was innovative and crazy.
the big problem of the tuttuki bako is that it eat batteries super quickly, and there wasn't a way to turn it off (not that i knew of) so i would had to buy batteries for it every 2 months or so
Puts penis in cube world
@@gavinbrown6167 yes
I remember having these as a kid and I loved them, but god they would NOT SHUT UP AT NIGHT.
Holy shit as a kid I remember that I would hear them randomly at night go off and would try to put them in my drawer to muffle the sound
They would turn off after a couple of minutes, I think you’re getting confused with tamagotchi.
I swear I thought these were a figment of my imagination
Wow, that fever dream actually existed.
I love this channel, as a child that watched a channel just filled with toy ads, I saw a lot of stuff, I didn't even believe some really existed
I have one on my computer desk just to remind me that they existed, and I still feel like they're a fever dream.
I’m still pissed that my parents didn’t let me have Cubeworld toys. They were so cool.
Now that I think about it. . my mom loved my brother and I for paying for a 2pck. I think we might have had 4 combined so that right there is $60 on stupid little cubes that we got bored of after a month or so
I ONLY HAD 2 OR 3 AND ALWAYS WANTED MORE
@@alechernandez5506 you have self awareness just to realise that man I’ve heard people complain that they only got 4. I get that the appeal is having loads of them but at the same time I don’t see a kid spending much more time with 100 cubes then they would with 3-4
I had three, lost them all
@@robertt9733 Shit, you right.
I remember seeing CubeWorld in Toys R Us (rest in peace) when I was younger and being intrigued, but never actually get it, as with a lot of things I see and am intrigued by.
same. a cube network would look cool mounted on a wall
I regret not getting them as a kid
yo toys r us aint a thing anymore wut
I had four as a kid, and for some reason it never occured to me to ask my parents for any more. I loved them so much they were the greatest thing.
Cube world seems like a virtual/easier to manage version of an ant farm, which is pretty interesting! Seeing how the characters interact when being put together and how you can take a portion of them and put them somewhere else is a pretty neat concept! I would love to see a videogame version of this where you don't have to buy each cube individually and the characters have much more interesting interactions, kinda like a more "simulation-ey" version of tomodachi life.
This is actually one of the coolest toys ever. The concept is amazing.
"entire world of cubes" and pans out to a game cube, I see what you did there
Yeah we all did because we watched the video too.
Marie Antoinette oh why don’t you be quite and eat your cake, or it’ll be off with your head.
@@shadowsonicsilver6 (i say off with his head)
Rodolfo Lopez Grammar?
"It's always a treat to uncover some long-forgotten memory"
That could be the tagline for this entire channel.
This whole series is unlocking decade-old Toys R Us memories I never knew I had.
It's like, I didn't even know I knew of these, until I saw this.
And even now, the memories are like unattached, they have no context, I don't know where or when I saw these, my age, or if I even wanted these... lol
I wanted these so bad but my parents never let me buy them for whatever reason
Edit: Wow they’re 30 dollars? Never mind now I know why
Yea, they're cool, but they're not "that" cool.
Yeah and $30 was a lot more back in 2003. For that price you could get like 3 lego kits that didn't require batteries
I remember finding them for like $5 on clearance and then they tried charging me $30 for them.
I was like 10. Thankfully my mom was there at the time to call them on their shit.
Hell no. That was the price of replacing the 2nd controller missing a thumbstick. That's crazy money
I remember playing with these at my rich friend's house! there was also one with girls in their houses and I liked that one more
Edit: PIXEL CHIX! THEY'RE CALLED PIXEL CHIX!
Oh god I thought those never existed and it was a dream.
oh man, I remember having one of these when I was really small! I remember laughing at the fart jokes, but I never figured out they had games in them, what did I do with them if not play? I smacked them against the wall with the gyroscope, and them I just stared at them
That sounds creepy
8:38
He's just paying for his college debt. Don't judge him.
yeah don't judge him
@@bxeproductons4427 See? This dude gets it.
I had 8 cubes and loved them. They were great as a block on the back of my desk where you never knew what characters would be up to each time you looked up. Less a toy for me, more an interesting art piece
I only ever had two, they came together when I bought them and they hated each other. :(
I had 3 of these when I was younger and it was my dream to get more. I wanted to build a city so bad. Curses not having a job when I was 7/8
Whip looks like he's into some uhhhh...fun things 👀
But I remember my parents buying me some of these. I liked the minigame ones, but the original ones I got bored with fairly quickly
this reminds me of pixel chicks, I had one of the 2 screen houses and one of the cars lol there was a lot more to do in that then this cube stuff
I remember those being marketed at the exact same time as the cube world ones.
love how now we get to watch someone play with the toys we never got as a kid. so happy i found this channel
wow these had completely been wiped out of my memories, but now I remember having those as a kid
This was so dope when I was young, me and my sis would get different ones and see how they all interacted, and with a little imagination these were hours of fun
I feel like Cube World felt like the precursor to Tomodachi Life, specifically with the apartment complexes. 🙏
What happens when a Stickman goes into a different Stickmans house, then you disconnect the houses?
they reset, sadly.
From memory, they sort of dissolve and fly around a while before ending up back in their own cubes.
They die, and you need to buy a replacement cube.
murder
Death
Getting these memories unlocked is exciting, but scary too. Makes me think about all the memories I'll never recover
When I was a kid I wanted one of those so bad, but never had the “permission” to buy it so basically each time we went to the store that sold them I would play with them there
Your pfp is dope
OMG i always had one of these and i always was like: "what is this i dont know where i bought that"
me too i had the red one but my mom threw it away because i didn't play with it
Oh my god I think I requested this topic. I’m pretty sure I still have my fairly big collection of them.
I even had the mods and was sort of sad when they came to an end, but I was getting bored of them by that time.
I remember my sister and I got some of these and loved them. My mom found a bunch of the two packs for like $9 or something ridiculously cheap, and we had a shit load of them! We had boxes of them, like at one point we turned out game room into an actual cube city.
cube world always seemed pretty cool but even as a kid I realized "wow i'd need waaaaay more of these than it'd be worth to make this as cool as it could be" and the batteries are a nightmare i never imagined
OMG I REMEMBER THESE, they were soo cool. My whole class brought there’s in and it was like a huge screen, then a dinosaur came on them.
In second grade this one guy in my class had this Casio looking watch that was gold painted and could show these short animations of 2 tiny stickmen shooting, punching, and stabbing each other. I NEED TO KNOW WHAT IT IS CALLED
That actually sounds really cool.
Please give some context about in which year this was.
“there’s the wonderful occasion of finding something you completely forgot about. It’s always a treat to uncover some long forgotten memories...like I forgot that I ordered this thing 2 weeks ago” LMAO
oh man, i remember when i was a kid and wanting one of these so bad. i would beg my parents but never got one. Seeing this is a wave of strange nostalgia.
I had one of these when I was still a pupa
and I gotta say,
the amount of vomit and farts that happened in my cube was unholy
I had literally ALL of these as a kid so seeing that never released green one slightly awoke my ancient obsession!
I bet i could find one at a good will store and it might just be super rare
I loved Cube world as a kid, but I found that each cube was weirdly sensitive and would break down pretty easily.
I've always wanted to get my hands on a couple, especially if they span a few generations. It would be interesting to reverse engineer them and see if the protocol truly supports communicating new animations to older blocks.
I remember only having one of these and no friends with one so I tried tricking it with my Scannerz, Tamagatchi, and magnets.
That last one made me think it was working for a second before turning off lol.
These things were unironically the black gold of my old school. EVERYONE WAS OBSESSED with these things. I only had a small basic red cube but this one kid had that giant cube and everyone wanted to be his friend.
Simpler times, huh.
I really wanted to play with these when I was a kid. I never got any. I guess it all payed off though... now that we have idle games for our phones that are free and do more
I had a lot more of these than I remember. Hearing the names and seeing the symbol on each one brought it all back to me
It’s kinda interesting for me to see this so soon. Considering my rope to discovering this thing, through a guy that was a major fan of them in college during my last year of doing IT and before Media (Film And TV for those wondering, in general). He would always talk about it and I was pretty interested in it regardless despite his absurd love for ‘em, mostly because of how clean and pixelated they are. Not gonna like, I would like some emulator for these guys for my phone/tablet.
Tomodachi life is kinda like this, but with more features. There’s probably a 3ds rom floating somewhere on the internet of it!
Holy hell I just found my green one of these like a month ago when I was cleaning all my junk out of my room. Donno what happend to my pink one but the green one still works
I remember when I was little and got one of these for Christmas. We got stuck in a two hour traffic jam and I sat there and played with my single cube world the entire time. Lol
God, I remember wanting this so badly when I was little. I think my parents always said no because they knew it was one of those things you needed to buy a bunch of to have any fun with.
Having these back in middle school was like having the new Jordan's. Everyone was on it.
I love all of your casual Homestar references.
I never owned these, but I remember seeing the commercials for them over and over again. I think at that point I was already bored of Tamogachi, so this didn't grab me.
I can't believe in the span of ten seconds you showed a matt fraction hawkeye gn and a sonic the hedgehog tiger electronic game, both of which I own. Excellent taste, bro 👍
Oh god seeing this hit me with a wave of nostalgia.
Broooooooooooooo, I remember having this, I remember wanting to make my own actual world but everyone kept saying it would be “impractical” and that it’s “a waste of money”.
i just love how he censored the middle finger the wrong way lol
8:00 I think they were marking it as animations because of the popularity of online stick figure animators at the time
This toy was absolutely my favorite growing up. I had a whole bunch of different blocks stacked up and I’d love to wake up and see them interact with eachother. It was a super unique toy at the time.
This unlocked a deep set memory for me. I was given one of these for Christmas. One. I got bored in like ten minutes.
I remember thinking those looked so cool, but I never got one
they were so expensive...
@@cherrybansx7398 I want to make a game of this thing
@@atomic-art go on...
@@cherrybansx7398 what its like its like the toy but you can program different boxes and stuff and it could be like its own community and stuff you can program different responses to different boxes that are unique make your own minigames animations all of that stuff and you can visit peoples boxes and expand apon them together, you can also interact with the stick figures even more like a kick the buddy game
@@cherrybansx7398 im only a teenager so im not doing this anytime soon btw
0:11 HE SAID IT! HE SAID THE THING!
I've always wanted those since I was a kid! My mom never thought the price was justified, but I still dream of the day that I own the complete set and whatever exclusives that're out there
I am certain that these games were just a massive fever dream. I literally remembered them today and googled "cube game where the magnets allow men to travel to the next cube" AND IT CAME UP.
I have the og yellow and red ones, funny part is that for all the years I had them I never changed their batteries once! (that being said when they did run out of battery I kinda didn't have the interest)
The true entertainment of Cube World, build large society then flip them all on their side at once and let chaos reign
This is just Game & Watch Tomodachi Life with the Nintendo part cancelling itself out.
Cube World was literally the first real commercial augmented reality if you think about it 🤔
Does the sims count?
It's virtual reality, it would be augmented reality if it was being projected onto the real world
I had these as a kid, one thing missed in the review: the rate they ate batteries!
As an adult I now wonder how they worked
You have dragged one of my most repressed memories up from the deepest parts of my brain. Seriously, just seeing the thumbnail unlocked so many memories I didn't even think I could remember.
i want a modern version of these so bad. They would be thin but so cool
I caught that Dangeresque joke in there. "Looks like we're going to have to juuump!!"
6:37 "Going to have to juump!" Is that a Homestar Runner reference I hear? 😂
“In this whole world of cubes”
*gamecube in the back round*
the thing is that the batteries on this thing last forever, mine is still going strong after 14 years
This reminds me of pixel chix which I used to collect with my friends. It looked cool but could get boring after a few minutes.
omg yes! I had a pixel chick too, you could connect other houses, or malls. I indeed remember thinking it gets boring after a while, and I still have deeply ingrained in my head the voice of that little girl complaining I abandoned her lmao
Dazai - I remember my friend having the mall and me enjoying that best compared to the houses alone. The add ons had alil longer playability but still not for long. Still good memories tho. I liked the look of a old Polly pocket house and furniture that the pixel chix could interact with
9:33 - That's right, it goes in the square hole...
2:00 that’s a sped up Ween song playing in the commercial
“Johnny on the Spot” from “The Mollusk”
Wow, you're right. What a strange choice for a commercial.
Finally found the ween comment, I knew I recognized it!
This was a perfect coverage of it. I'm honestly glad they exsisted. Something about them was charming. I don't find that type of charm much these days.
I remember collecting all and the same of these things and never got bored with them for hours and stacked in many different ways. I still have these to this very day.
I remember these. Jeez its been long time since ive i seen one.
I remember seeing commercials for these things as a kid and thinking "those look cool... but I need to have like 10 of them to do anything fun with them, and it was hard enough convincing my parents to get me a Tamagotchi."
Wait, that ad for Cube World had Ween's "I'll be your Jonny on the Spot" playing as the music? That's amazing, lmao
I very clearly remember seeing these in Walmart as a kid and wanting them every time. And I’ve been thinking about them and what ever happened to them but never knew the name nor could Google help me find something like “digital stick people in portable cubes”
Me, looking over at my shelf with Whip Dodger, the helicopter and the taxi: Life is okay!
Then their was a "girl version" of these, anyone else remember Pixel Chicks?
Sort of, I remember the commercial and seen these at my local store but it's hard to say if it's that or the ones in this video.
You could've made a Grindr joke with one of the cube lads smh
Honestly grindr jokes write themselves