Reddit mentions of Radica Cube World Slim & Scoop Interactive Game

I don't have a definitive answer and it is late here, so sorry if that trails off.

Given the Amazon description, I'd say you need to place this somewhere between an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi, with the first not being able to run Doom and the second being able to do run it. Given that this came out in 2008, I'd say it is closer to an Arduino.

But there is actually a short story showing what it looks like from inside. That doesn't go into details of the used chip, but we can see there that a button cell is used to power that thing, something that isn't exactly used to power "powerful" stuff. The bigger ones hold up to 620mAh, which is nice, but have a maximum discharge current of 0.2mA 2mA...which is...well, not a lot at all. From what I gather, that is hardly enough to run a very small variant of the Arduino. Which means that whatever is in there is actually not a general purpose chip, but the logic directly baked into circuits.

Which makes it rather unsuitable for running anything besides the logic it was designed for, unfortunately.


Edit: As /u/neotek pointed out in their comment, this is most likely not something baked as I assumed, but a simple, low tier chip. So, theoretically, you could string them together to get a network of those. But the limiting factor will be latency between them, it ain't going to be pretty.

Also /u/drummyfish is completely right in their comment, even if it does only a few things, you could still try to emulate logic gates with it and start building up from there...it ain't going to be pretty either and you will need a lot of those, and I'm talking hundreds of thousands at least here.

I had them too! I forget what they were called, but if I remember right, they had little stickmen inside of them that you could play with, and if you physically turned the cube upside down, the stickman would fall on his head!

Edit: Curiosity got the best of me. One google search later, I have the answer: They were called Cube World cubes, and it seems like they are no longer being made, due to the price on this Amazon listing.

Wow! Okay, so this might seem like a stretch, but this game reminds me of this toy I saw in the early 2000's that was a number of electronic boxes with stick figures in them. You could rearrange them however you wanted and they would interact and play and fight and stuff on small little screens. I always wanted them because I liked how you could stack them in any way you wanted, and the little characters on screen would change about. I never got that toy when I was younger, so I feel that getting this game will give me closure.


All in all, amazing art style and very original idea :)

EDIT: After some quick searching, the toy I was talking about is called Radica's Cube World!

Radica Cube World?