2 Free Chiptune VST Plugins : Best Gameboy VST sounds

2 Free Chiptune VST Plugins : Best Gameboy VST sounds

Want to find the sound of the Nintendo Gameboy video games, Mario Bros for your beats? It’s possible and free.

Game Boy Story

The Game Boy is a fourth-generation 8-bit portable video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. Released in Japan on April 21, 1989, then in North America in October 1989, and finally in Europe on September 281990 : it is the first portable console in the Game Boy line.

It was designed by Gunpei Yokoi and Nintendo Research & Development : the same team that designed the Game and Watch series as well as many successful games for the Nintendo Entertainment Syste5.

Despite the release of more technically advanced handheld consoles : Game Boy was a huge success.

The Game Boy and Game Boy Color models sold 118.6 million units worldwide.

Upon its release in the United States, more than one million units were sold in a few week.

Production of the handheld classic console ended in 2003.

Famous Videos Games on Gameboy :

  • The Legend of Zelda
  • Pokemon
  • Super Mario
  • Street fighter …

Reflekt Audio : GameX

Ideal for the Chiptune music genre, a genre based on 8 Bit sound, Reflekt Audio offers us a nice VST for free: Game X. All this Gameboy-shaped plugin sounds come from the synt, OP-1 portable.

Features :

  • 85 One shots sounds
  • Reverb
  • Glide
  • Pan
  • Pitch
  • Filter

Download Game X for free : here


Sample Science : GP Drumbox

Sample Science and BPB have extracted all the original sounds from the Nintendo Gameboy Classic and made them into a free 8 Bit VST. With 12 drum kits and great options, you will surely be won over from the first time you use it.

Features :

  • 8 channels rompler instrument
  • Cutoff
  • Reverb
  • ADSR
  • Filters : Hi-Pass & Low-Pass
  • A Similar design to the original Gameboy

Try for free GP Drumbox for free : here