Send Your Listeners Back to the 80s with 8-Bit and Retro Game Sounds

Do you remember racing home after school to play Galaga and Donkey Kong on Commodore 64s and Ataris? Remember Saturday mornings playing Defender and Pitfall on a ColecoVision?

Give your listeners the gift of nostalgia with our latest release: 8-Bit and Retro Game Sounds. Packed with over 500 lo-fi and retro video game accents, character and item sounds, and music and tones, the new sound library embeds the sounds of the early days of gaming and shopping mall arcades into your projects.

Working on a film or series set in the 80s? Creating a retro game title yourself? Read on…

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What is the 8-Bit and Retro Game Sounds Library?

Two Types of Game Sound Styles

Dozens of Types of Video Game sounds

How the 8-Bit and Retro Game Sounds Library Helps You

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8-Bit and Retro Game Sounds Library Features

What is the 8-Bit and Retro Game Sounds Library?

The 8-Bit and Retro Game Sounds library provide two types of game sound styles – 8-bit sounds and retro sounds – as well as dozens of types of video game sounds.

Two Types of Game Sound Styles

The 8-bit sounds are the true lo-fi NES-style sounds: it’s the crunch and grit you remember from the early game consoles and classic video game arcades. These are the coin grabs, bonus round sounds, explosions, melodies, and more created in the spirit of classic gaming.

The retro game sounds are clips created in the spirit of 8-bit gaming. They’re 8-bit-inspired sounds with a modern spin – sometimes they have contemporary reverb, delay, or distortion – that give the clips an up-to-date feeling.

Dozens of Types of Video Game sounds

The collection was designed as a versatile bundle with dozens of types of game sounds:

Alert
Notification
Select
User Interface/UI
In-Game Actions

Item Sounds
Character Sounds
Melodies
Tones

Of course, those are just the names we gave them. Want to use “bonus life” pickup sound as a “insert coin” clip? Thinking of using our “boss fight” melody as a “shields at 10%” warning tone? With over 500 clips and more than 2 gigabytes of audio to choose from, it’s up to you.

How the 8-Bit and Retro Game Sounds Library Helps You

How can these clips help your projects today?

The retro game sounds pay homage to gaming on the first household computers and game consoles. Whether they were the sounds of your youth or you’re simply a fan of the classic period of gaming history, the clips evoke emotion of the early days of gaming.

The beauty of these designed sounds is that they’re not limited to being used only one way. Our sound titles combine suggested uses with descriptive keywords so you have the choice grabbing a quick match for an achievement or reward sound, or use the keywords baked into the file (“arpeggio, descend, trill, reverb”) to browse by feel and sonic chararacteristics instead. This flexibility allows you to make quick picks or source the clips as inspiration for creating something new.