It looks as if everybody and their mom subsidiary corporations are leaping on the red-hot mechanical keyboard development. The newest entrant is 8BitDo, finest recognized for its retro-style (and surprisingly advanced) game controllers. The producer is staying in its consolation zone with its first keyboard design: The Retro Mechanical Keyboard is obtainable in two colorways, styled after both Nintendo’s Japanese Famicom or the American Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) full with massive 80s-style graphics and management knobs.

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But that’s not all. In addition to a rotary swap for Bluetooth and a couple of.4GHz wi-fi, a dial for quantity, and three additional buttons above the operate row, the keyboard comes with two huge, separate buttons styled after the A and B main motion buttons on the NES controller. These wired add-on “Super Buttons” could be programmed for particular person keys or macros. With 4 inputs, you may join as much as eight buttons in whole (with two included within the field and extra units of two out there for $20 every).

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Surprisingly, this isn’t only a novelty board — it contains loads of the identical options as the best gaming keyboards out there. 8BitDo has put some severe {hardware} into the construct, together with PBT keycaps with an “MDA-like” profile, hot-swap swap sockets (Kailh BOX switches included within the, um, field), N-key rollover, programming through 8BitDo’s “Ultimate” software program, and on-the-fly macros…it is a severe gaming keyboard and shockingly reasonably priced at simply $100. (Keep in thoughts, that’s with the 2 Super Buttons.) The solely factor lacking on the standard keyboard spec record is RGB lighting, however that wouldn’t match with the retro theme and there’s a massive purple energy gentle within the upper-left nook.

The 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard is up for pre-order now, transport on September twentieth. Both the keyboard and the add-on Super buttons could be purchased in “N Edition” and “Fami Edition” colours. If you actually need to go all-out, pair it with the NES-style mouse.