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Prime Big Deals Days are here. If you totally forgot and already missed yesterday, don’t worry. You still have the rest of the day to save on some cool stuff all across Amazon as the sales event ends later tonight — October 9. For any PC gamers out there or just those nostalgic about the video games of yesteryear, 8BitDo is a gaming accessory manufacturer that bases its designs off retro hardware. Mostly known for controllers, the company also has a really sick set of mechanical keyboards that look right out of the late 80s, early 90s — and you can get yourself one for as low as $75.
A Blast From the Past
These are an 87 key design (sorry, no number pad!)The keyboards are compatible with Windows 10 and about as well as Android 9 and above, so you can even hook it up to play games on your phone. I can connect either wired, over 2.4G wireless, or via Bluetooth. One of the coolest little details are the knobs for volume and Bluetooth in the top left corner, which emulate how knobs like that looked and felt back in the day.
The keys are programmable via the 8BitDo Ultimate Software V2 on PC. You can use it to assign buttons functionality to your liking or even set macros to complete specific tasks under varying scenarios.
The keyboards even come with these big A and B buttons as well as a joystick. This is such an excellent way to emulate NES games (so long as you already own them *wink wink*) or retro-inspired games such as the newly released UFO 50 (which is awesome as heck and everyone should get it).
There are four unique colorway — all retro-inspired. The faded gray with the dark keys and rainbow border surrounding the logo is meant to be reminiscent of the Commodore 64. The red and white is reminiscent of the original Famicom. Those in North America are probably more nostalgic about the red, black, and gray found on the Nintendo Entertainment System version. And lastly we have a light and dark gray styled after the original Macintosh computer. The big buttons and joystick also vary in color to match depending on which edition you select.
All colors are part of the Prime Big Deals day sales event, but with varying levels of savings. The N Edition (NES-inspired) is sitting at $90. The M Edition (Macintosh-inspired) is down to $80. The Fami Edition (Famicom-inspired) has gone to $77. And finally the C64 Edition (Commodore 64-inspired) is the lowest at just $75 and amounts to a discount of 32% off.
