Grab this cool retro console inspired keyboard for just $83

[Admin]

This funky-looking keyboard from 8Bitdo brightens up your setup with its nostalgic retro look.

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[King_V]

I'll probably eventually wind up getting the C-64 themed version.

 

[OneMoreUser]

I'll probably eventually wind up getting the C-64 themed version.

That I don't get. The C64 was ugly back then and it is still ugly today. Sorry.

It was a fun machine at the time, the games and the crazy programming you could do, like for example using the 6502 in the disc drive to work as a sort of co-processor. But it wasn't pleasing to the eye and there wasn't a feel of quality hardware either.

 

[bit_user]

That I don't get. The C64 was ugly back then and it is still ugly today. Sorry.

I think nostalgia can have an outsized influence on aesthetics. When I looked at the C64 version, I thought: "no... I never had a C64 so this does nothing for me".

Considering its aesthetics, in abstract, I agree that it's objectively disadvantaged relative to the others. However, even though I kinda think Famicom version might even look a little better, I would only seriously consider getting the NES edition.

 

[35below0]

That I don't get. The C64 was ugly back then and it is still ugly today. Sorry.

It was a fun machine at the time, the games and the crazy programming you could do, like for example using the 6502 in the disc drive to work as a sort of co-processor. But it wasn't pleasing to the eye and there wasn't a feel of quality hardware either.

Nostalgia is not about looks, but about nostalgia. GameBoy was hardly a sex machine.

As for me, i might end up buying the ZX Spectrum Next. And don't tell me i'm not an idiot.
If they were smart, they'd sell the keyboard.

 

[TerryLaze]

Wink wink, nudge nudge, cough cough.

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[peachpuff]

I want the atari keyboard with one button...

 

[King_V]

That I don't get. The C64 was ugly back then and it is still ugly today. Sorry.

Nostalgia is not about looks, but about nostalgia.

Exactly this. It's about the memories it evokes.

Hey, the C64 was my machine from the early/mid-80s onward, then I wound up with a Commodore 128 later on, which I used until about 1996 or so on a regular basis, at which point, I got my first PC, a Dell XPS 133 with, you guessed it, a 133MHz Pentium.

 

[Findecanor]

Too bad that the keyboard is not available in ISO layout.