Woot! has
8BitDo Retro 87 Wireless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard (Xbox Edition) on sale for
$89.99.
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About this product:
- Designed with Xbox - inspired by the original Xbox console. Compatible with Windows 10(1903) or above, and Android 9.0 or above. (Not for Xbox consoles)
- RGB backlight with 8 light modes
- 87 keys. Function shortcut keys and Fn lock. Integrated Xbox Button to activate Game Bar.
- Kailh Jellyfish X switches. Hot-swappable PCB. Support n-key rollover.
- Double-layered ABS keycaps with matte UV coating. MDA-like height. Top mount style.
- Fast-mapping on Super Buttons (no software needed)
19 Comments
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While I am exactly the target audience for this keyboard - fitting that nostalgia category while also currently being a PC gamer and casual mechanical keyboard enthusiast - I'm not quite sure I'll pull the trigger. The board checks most of my basic requirements: having a hot-swappable PCB, with good quality included switches, and USB-C detachable connection. But I don't like the giant 8BITDO label on top, nor the large strip of deadspace at the top of the keyboard to the right of the media buttons.
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You sit there staring at the wall, the bills, the dog that hates you, the bottle that loves you. What do you do? You buy a keyboard. Not because you need it. You need it like you need another ex-wife. You buy it because you have a disease: hope.
The 8BitDo Retro 87 RGB Mechanical Keyboard Xbox Edition showed up like an old lover in a tight dress — full of promises and bad ideas. Retro colors like the dying glow of a bar at 2 a.m., clicky keys that sound like a typewriter belching out suicide notes. Perfect.
The keys feel real. They push back just enough, like life, like a good fight. None of that soggy membrane garbage. You hit a key and it means something. It commits the letter to the screen the way I used to commit poetry to cocktail napkins and the backs of court summons.
The RGB lighting is ridiculous and beautiful, like Christmas in a roach motel. You can set it to flash, breathe, pulse - whatever fits the rhythm of your slow descent into madness.
And it's an Xbox edition, which is hilarious because the only thing sadder than writing your novel on a gaming keyboard is getting your ass kicked by a 12-year-old named xX_DeathLord420_Xx after court-mandated anger management classes. Still, it hooks up to everything - PC, Xbox, your own crushed dreams. It has Bluetooth!
Battery life? Long enough. Build quality? Tougher than half the surgeons I used to drink under the table. Weight? Solid. You could brain a home intruder with this thing and still finish your manuscript.
Price? Who cares. You can't put a number on small, stupid joys.
It's 2 a.m. You're sitting there in the dim RGB glow of your first 8BitDo Retro 87, half a bottle deep into something brown and judgmental. The house is quiet, too quiet — the kind of quiet that comes before either great sex or great disaster.
You see the discount.
You feel the tremor in your gut.
You start doing the filthy, stupid math.
"How much is a second one really? How much is half of everything in the divorce? Can you plug a keyboard into a motel TV while living out of a duffel bag?"
God help you, you're thinking yes.
The devil on your shoulder has a mechanical switch under his finger, and it's a Gateron Green — loud, judgmental, inevitable. Not like this keyboard's Kailh Jellyfish X ones.
You know it's wrong.
You know it's right.
This keyboard — this beautiful, chunky, defiant monument to useless, personal rebellion — is whispering to you in a language your wedding ring forgot.
Buy the second one.
Burn the ships.
Type your manifesto by the light of RGB rage while the world crashes around you like a drunken god falling down the stairs.
At least you'll go down clicking.
I have one, and it's a good keyboard. However the keycaps are dished in such a way that I make more typos than normal, compared to my friend's NES edition.
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I went into buying this seeing it as a semi-functional novelty, so I can live w that pitfall.
For the folks that want this whole board, but are iffy on quality, there are some good tutorials on YouTube of how to make it more functional as a daily driver, but might be more time/effort/money than some would be willing to invest on top of the board when there's already top notch stuff in the market ~$90+ right now (not for long thoughFML)