Deja vu a blast from my past resurfaced on my desk today. Even though I knew it was coming it was like seeing an old, very sexy, girlfriend ten years later and damn if she didn’t look better than ever.

The Boomslang Collector’s Edition mouse (BSCE) boogies between a complete retro collector’s item and a functional mouse in my mind. Whether to place it in a trophy case and save it for my grandchildren decades away or add it to my arsenal of weapons for my epic battles of (yes I still play) Quake 2 is the question.

This re-creation of the original gaming mouse comes nestled in a jet black carrying case banded by a single stainless steel sleeve. Inside the outer case the original unpainted cookie tin has been updated by an anodized black painted case. Just the visual impact this case has is good for a 2 frag advantage when I show up at the next LAN sporting the BSCE. I may not be that good but I will certainly appear intimidating unpacking my gear.

Alright enough BS about the retro crap and the packaging, how does it play? Who cares when it looks this great and is a piece of history? Actually the engineering of this mouse is completely up to date and sports the same 3G infrared sensor as the award-winning DeathAdder. Offering incremental DPI settings of 400, 800 and 1800 this mouse can track 60 to 120 inches per second at 15g’s on nearly any mousing surface.

The BSCE also offers USB Ultrapolling, onboard memory, always on mode, on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment and one of my personal favorites, an extra set of Teflon feet. There is so much more to this mouse than the history behind it. While the shape, size and weight are all originally authentic the materials and lighting are beyond cool. The lighting is like nothing you have ever experienced and the titanium ice cold finish is also a new experience. My beloved Boomslang had a facelift!

The BSCE are just recently coming off the production line and are being filtered into the online retail channels as I write this blog. You will not see 10,000 units offered at one single time. These will eek there way onto Razerzone and into the etailer reseller market through January. So if we are sold out please keep trying because there are more to come.