Summary
Your keyboard might not be something you’ve considered jazzing up, thought of as little more than the collection of buttons you sit in front of to write emails every day. Since keyboards are something most of us use every day, it only makes sense that we put some thought into how it looks and what it feels like to use. 8bitdo can improve your experience on both of those fronts, and right now it can do it for less as itsNES-inspired mechanical keyboard is on sale.
Dubbed the N Edition since it hasn’t been officially licensed to resemble the NES’s color scheme, this particular retro mechanical keyboard will usually set you back $99.99. As high-end mechanical keyboards go, that’s already not too bad. For a limited time, however, you’re able to get the N Edition for just $69.99. It’s not only the color scheme that makes it appealing too. It has custom mapping, works via Bluetooth so no tangled wires, and those two giant red buttons can be programmed to be whatever key inputs you like.
Those of you more in tune with yourNintendohistory will know that not only was the NES called the Famicom when released in Japan, but it also looked entirely different. 8bitdo has that retro base covered too as it’s also selling a Fami edition of its mechanical keyboard, and it’s also on sale. If you’d prefer the Famicom-style keyboard, it’s also on sale at the same reduced price as the N Edition, both of which can be found for less at Woot through the links in the box below.
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8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard
8bitdo’s retro mechanical keyboard is available in various designs, some of which are inspired by classic consoles including the NES and the Famicom. It connects to PCs using Windows 10 and above via Bluetooth and the two big buttons it comes with can be programmed to mimic the key of your choice.
If neither of the options above appeals to you, there are a lot of other themed keyboards out there.Ducky brought back its Fallout keyboardlast month to celebrate the arrival of the series' adaptation on Amazon Prime. Decked out in blue and yellow with Vault Boy assuring you everything’s alright via a big thumbs up on your space bar, the keyboard looks a lot like something you might type an SOS message out on if you were a vault dweller who just learned the truth.
The NES/Famicom might be a 40-year-old console, but buying a mechanical keyboard modeled after its color scheme isn’t the only way you may celebrate it four decades later this summer. Nintendo has revived its Nintendo World Championships gamevia the NES Edition, launching on Nintendo Switch this July. The game will task you with completing more than 150 challenges from 13 different NES games, comparing your times and scores with other players via global leaderboards.
