A collection of recreations of fonts from classic video/computer games, all built brick-by-brick on FontStruct.
This collection is curated by FontStructors Patrick Lauke (redux) and goatmeal. Please contact either of them (sign in required!) if you find, or have fontstructed, a candidate for this set.
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Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "1942" (1984). Note that in game there are two number variants used - a regular one with a right-hand shadow, and a bold one; this recreation uses the latter. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Based off https://jordiboi.itch.io/brokenthrough
Font used in 10th Frame (and the Leaderboard Golf series) for the Commodore 64 by Access Software. I used 10th Frame's smaller lettering for lower case, and the box score numbers for an alternate set of digits (use Shift 1-8, [ and ] for these). The letters used shading (grey pixels next to the black ones) so I've tried to mock that.
Recreation of the pixel font used for the highscore table in Sega's "Ace Attacker" (1988). This rather whimsical font contrasts starkly with the primary font used in the game, which is the same as "Altered Beast" (1988).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Quintet/Enix's "ActRaiser" (1990) on the SNES.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned on the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
The japanese version of this game features subtly different punctuation. This recreation only includes the punctuation marks from the western release.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Presenting Paramount Pictures and Ocean's Addams Family, released in 1991. This font is based on movies, especially this font is similar to Parasol Stars, which was created by Patrick H. Lauke (redux).
This is a clone of Parasol Stars (NES)Recreation of the pixel font from Ocean's "Addams Family Values" (1995) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Note the skull character, mapped to "skull and crossbones" (U+2620).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Video System's "Aero Fighters" (aka "Sonic Wings", 1992). This font is used for the pilot names and post-level taunts. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from Video System's "Aero Fighters" (aka "Sonic Wings", 1992). This font is used for in the arcade machine's boot/option screen. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the "futuristic" pixel font from Dinamic Software's "After the War" (1989) on the ZX Spectrum.
This font is used in the second part of the game. This recreation corrects the awkwardly inconsistent line height between the alphanumeric characters and the punctuation characters. Note that the Amstrad CPC version uses a different, much blockier font for this part of the game.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of After the War (Amstrad/Spectrum)Recreation of the pixel font from Kaneko's "Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit" (aka "Aero Blasters: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit", 1990). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.