Pack
Pure Synth Retro Arcade - 210 8-Bit Sound Effects
210 8-bit sound effects for platformers, shooters and arcade games: coins, gems and keys, jumps and dashes, lasers and blasters, hits and explosions, power-ups, menu and text blips, alarms, game over and win jingles. No AI: every sound in this pack was computed by our own synthesis code, written in Python. No AI, no samples and no recordings went into it. The zip includes a PROVENANCE.md that lists the method and every tool.
- 210 sound effects
- WAV, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit stereo
- 19.0 MB unzipped
- Royalty-free, no attribution
Preview
One variant of every design in the pack, at the levels the files ship at.
Every design in the pack
The complete file list, so you can check for the sound you need before buying.
- Blaster shot (5 variants)
- Blip (5 variants)
- Bomb whistle (5 variants)
- Cancel (5 variants)
- Coin pickup (5 variants)
- Countdown go (5 variants)
- Countdown tick (5 variants)
- Crumble (5 variants)
- Cursor move (5 variants)
- Dash (5 variants)
- Door open (5 variants)
- Double jump (5 variants)
- Enemy defeat (5 variants)
- Explosion big (5 variants)
- Explosion small (5 variants)
- Extra life (5 variants)
- Footstep chip (5 variants)
- Game over (5 variants)
- Gem pickup (5 variants)
- High score (5 variants)
- Hit (5 variants)
- Hurt (5 variants)
- Item break (5 variants)
- Jump (5 variants)
- Key pickup (5 variants)
- Laser shot (5 variants)
- Level complete (5 variants)
- Lose life (5 variants)
- Pause (5 variants)
- Power down (5 variants)
- Power up (5 variants)
- Punch (5 variants)
- Rapid fire (5 variants)
- Select (5 variants)
- Shield on (5 variants)
- Spring bounce (5 variants)
- Teleport (5 variants)
- Text blip high (5 variants)
- Text blip low (5 variants)
- Warning alarm (5 variants)
- Win jingle (5 variants)
- Zap shot (5 variants)
Questions
Can I use these sounds in a commercial game?
Yes. The licence is royalty-free for commercial and non-commercial projects, with no attribution required, no per-project fee and no expiry. The one restriction is that the audio files may not be resold or redistributed on their own as a sound library.
What format are the files?
WAV, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit stereo, 210 individual files in one folder, about 19.0 MB unzipped.
Which game engines do they work with?
Any engine that imports WAV, including Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot and GameMaker.
How were the sounds made?
Computed by our own synthesis code, written in Python. No AI, no samples and no recordings went into it, and the zip includes a PROVENANCE.md that lists the method and every tool. This is declared on every store listing.
Where to buy
The pack is on itch.io at moneywithjjcom.itch.io/pure-synth-retro-arcade, and on the other stores listed on the store pages. The audio files are identical on every store.
Questions about the pack, the licence or a custom set: moneywithjj.com@gmail.com.