Recreation of the pixel font from Clive Townsend/Durell Software's "Saboteur" (1986) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.
The same font was reused in "Saboteur 2" (aka "Saboteur II: Avenging Angel", 1987).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Rob Pike/CRL Group's "Dracula" (1986) series of text adventures – "Dracula: First Night", "Dracula: The Arrival", "Dracula: The Hunt" – on the ZX Spectrum.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Ashby Computers and Graphics / Ultimate Play the Game's "Martianoids" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and MSX.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from ERE Informatique/Exxos' "Kult: The Temple of Flying Saucers" (aka "Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess", 1989). Only the characters used in the game (including the French and German versions) have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Tokuma Shoten/Telenet Japan's "Valis" (aka "Mugen Senshi Valis", 1987) on the Nintendo Famicom.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana, as well as a handful of katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Mastertronic's "Spellbound" (1985) on the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64.
The same font was reused (with a few minor changes to punctuation/special characters) in the sequels "Knight Tyme" (1986) and "Stormbringer" (1987)
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the international character set for ASCII Corporation/Spectravideo's MSX computer (1983).
The majority of the characters (with a few exception) have been mapped to their respective modern unicode points.
The recreation also includes a few additional accented and special characters from the Brazilian/Portugese variant. Beyond these, only the characters present in the original ROM have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from MD Software/Activision's "Knightmare" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.
This is yet another use of the same font I first stumbled on in the "Dizzy" games, with slightly different punctuation marks/special characters. This time at least, there's a connection to "Last Ninja 2" (which also uses this font), as they're both by the same programmer, Mev Dinc.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Dizzy III - Fantasy World DizzyRecreation of the pixel font from Codemasters' "Dizzy the Adventurer" (1992) - a remake of "Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk" (1991) - on the NES.
Almost identical to previous Dizzy fonts, with a few minor tweaks to the "R", "4", and "9", as well as the addition of accented and special characters.
In this recreation, I added a few more variants of the accented characters, to make the font more useful. Apart from these, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Dizzy III - Fantasy World DizzyRecreation of the pixel font from System 3/Beam Software's "Last Ninja 2" (1988) on the Amstrad CPC.
On the Amstrad, the font is used for the score counter and timer, and the screens between levels. In "Last Ninja 2 Remix" (1990), the font is also used for the initial title screen.
The title screen of the ZX Spectrum remix version also uses his font, but otherwise sticks to a different font for any other text, just like the regular/non-remix version.
Oddly, the font is the same (with the exception of the punctuation marks) as the one in Codemasters' "Dizzy II - Treasure Island Dizzy" (1988).
Only the characters used in the game have been included.
This is a clone of Dizzy III - Fantasy World DizzyRecreation of the pixel font from Gargoyle Games/Elite Systems' "ThunderCats - The Lost Eye of Thundera" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.
The same font was also used in Gargoyle Games' "Hydrofool" (1987).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Binary Vision/Palace Software's "Stifflip & Co." (1987) on the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.
Note the special characters, mapped to U+2318, U+269B, U+26A1, U+2733, and U+AA5C.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font Capcom/Software Creations' "Bionic Commando" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC.
Note the spiral character, used for decorative borders, mapped to "Full Block" (U+2588).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Palace Software's "Cauldron" (1985) on the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and C64.
This recreation includes a few additional punctuation characters from the sequel, "Cauldon II: The Pumpkin Strikes Back" (1986). Apart from that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from Quintet/Ancient/Enix's "Slapstick" (1994) on the SNES.
Note that the western release, "Robotrek", uses a different (and much blander/classic 8 bit) font.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Bandai's "Dirty Pair: Project Eden" (1987) on the Nintendo Famicom/NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
The game also includes a handful of katakana characters. As they were only limited to the few characters used on the start screen, these have been omitted. Otherwise, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sunsoft's "Ufouria: The Saga" (aka "Hebereke", 1991) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's "Captain America and The Avengers" (1991) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.