Guidry Retro Arcade Essentials: 8 sounds
Jump, Coin, Power-up, Laser, Hit, Explosion, Menu confirm and Level clear, each clean and 8-bit.
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Sound Sampler
48 free sound effects for your games: 8 from each of our six sound packs. Jumps, coins, lasers and explosions, footsteps and doors, zombies and dragons, blasters and teleports, fireballs and potions, engine loops, skids and sirens. They're the very same files as in the full packs: levelled, trimmed and click-free, as WAV and OGG, with ready GameMaker and Godot 4 sound boards. Free for your games, commercial ones too, no credit needed.
- 48 sounds from 6 packs (56 files with the 8-bit versions of the arcade sounds)
- WAV (16-bit, 44.1 kHz) and OGG
- GameMaker LTS 2026+: a sound board project with every sound as a sound asset
- Godot 4.7: a sound board scene with every sound, the loops set to loop
- No account needed: the download starts right away
- Free, under the same license as the paid packs
Hear them
About a minute and a half: every sound in the sampler, pack by pack. Or play them one at a time in the sound browser.
Gallery
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What's inside
48Sounds
6Packs
WAV + OGGFormats
3Engines
- WAV (16-bit, 44.1 kHz)
- OGG (smaller, for web and mobile)
- GameMaker project (a sound board)
- Godot 4 project (a sound board)
- Preview reel
- README with every sound listed
Footsteps & Foley: 8 sounds
Steps on stone, wood and grass, Door open, Door close, Chest open, Unlock and Pick up.
Creatures & Monsters: 8 sounds
Zombie groan, Zombie attack, Goblin hurt, Werewolf howl, Dragon roar, Ghost, Slime attack and a Jump scare.
Sci-Fi Weapons & UI: 8 sounds
Blaster, Rifle shot, Reload, Grenade, Teleport, Sliding door, UI hover and UI select.
Magic & Fantasy Spells: 8 sounds
Fireball, Fire impact, Ice spell, Lightning, Heal, Shield, Potion and Level up.
Vehicles & Streets: 8 sounds
Engine idle and high loops, Engine start, Horn, Skid, Crash, Police siren loop and Race GO.
The full packs
Liked these? Each one comes from a full pack, with many more sounds, variants so a sound never repeats, and the same GameMaker and Godot projects. Hear every sound in every pack before you buy.
Engine notes
- GameMaker (LTS 2026 and newer): open the sound board project, or bring its sound assets into your own game; audio_play_sound(snd_arcade_jump_01, 1, false).
- Godot 4.7: copy the sounds folder (with its .import files, so the loops keep looping) into your project and play any WAV on an AudioStreamPlayer.
- Any other engine: use the WAV or OGG files. Files ending in _loop loop seamlessly.
License
- Free: each person or company that downloads it gets the license (one person, or one company and the people working on its projects).
- Use the sounds and the demo code in any number of games, apps, videos and other projects, free or commercial, on any platform.
- Change them as much as you like. No credit required.
- Ship them inside your games, and inside the Godot or GameMaker projects you make with them.
- Don't sell or share the sounds on their own, or as a sound or asset pack, changed or not. To share the sampler, link to this page.
The same terms as the paid sound packs, given free with the download. The full terms are in LICENSE.txt in the download.
New sounds
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Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. No account, no email, nothing to pay: press Free download and the zip is yours.
Can I use them in a commercial game?
Yes, in any number of your own games, apps and videos, free or paid. No credit needed. You can't sell or share the sound files on their own or as a sound pack: to share the sampler, share the link to this page.
Are these the same as in the paid packs?
Yes, the very same files. The full packs have many more sounds, numbered variants of the ones a game repeats, and Room 3D Sound Maker files. Hear every sound in the sound browser.
Is there a bundle?
Yes: the Guidry Games Sound Bundle has the first five packs for $23.99 (the packs are $7.99 each). Vehicles & Streets is sold on its own.
Something's wrong with my download.
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