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Recreation of the small pixel font from NMK/Jaleco's "Saint Dragon" (1989).
Note that the original colour version of this font uses some antialiasing, particularly in punctuation characters like the "&". This recreation is non-antialiased reinterpretation of those characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Presenting Konami's Gyruss, released in 1983 for the Arcade, 1988 for the FDS, and February 1989 for the NES. This game is similar to falsion but bad.
Recreation of the pixel font from Nihon Bussan/Nichibutsu's "Formation Armed F" (1988).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Formation Armed FRecreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Pandora's Palace" (1984).
Fairly standard, but note the interesting details on "g", "j", and "2".
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Presenting Capcom's 1943: The Battle of the Midway (aka. 1944, or 1943: The Battle of Valhalla), released in 1987 for the Arcade, and 1988 for the FC/NES. Those letters are similar to Gun.Smoke. Thus, it made a mistake because it supposed to be The Battle of midway, released in 1942 in movies.
Presenting Taito and Tad Corp's Toki, (aka. Juju Densetsu, translated: The Legend of Juju), released in 1989 for the arcade, and 1991 for the Famicom and NES. This font was created at the arcade version by Patrick H. Lauke.
Presenting Nintendo's Excitebike (aka. Vs. Excitebike), released in 1984 for the FC, NES and Arcade, and 1988 for the FDS. This was based on Excitebike Series. This font is a part of Nintendoid 1.
This is a clone of Nintendoid 1Recreation of the large pixel font from Irem's "Lightning Swords" (1991).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Lightning Swords (Large)Presenting Nintendo's Clu Clu Land (aka. Vs. Clu Clu Land/Welcome to the New Clu Clu Land), released in 1984 for the NES, FDS and Arcade and 1988 for the FDS. This font is similar to Donkey Kong Classics. This font is part of Nintendoid. and This game is a part of Animal crossing, which was titled (Clu Clu Land D, aka. Clu Clu Land Disk).
This is a clone of Donkey Kong Classics (NES) (Extended)Presenting Namco's Final Lap, released in 1987 for the Arcade, and 1988 for the NES/Famicom.
Presenting SNK Electronics's Ikari Warriors, released in 1986. This font was recreated by Patrick H. Lauke.
This is a clone of Ikari WarriorsPresenting Namco's Youkai Douchuuki, released in 1987 for the Arcade and for PC Engine, and 1988 for the NES and Famicom. This font is similar to Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti, Wagyan Land (including Wagyan Land 2), and Spelunker II: Yuusha e No Chosen.
This is a clone of Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti (FC)Recreation of the pixel font from Technosoft/Sega's "Thunder Force AC" (1990) - the arcade version of "Thunder Force III".
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Thunder Force ACPresenting Hot-B, Natsume and Taito's Palamedes, released in 1990. This font is similar to S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team, which was created by Patrick H. Lauke (redux).
Based on a font identification request over at Typography.guru.
A recreation of the typeface used for the titles of the film Sneakers, evidently inspired by the MICR aesthetics, filtered through the over-the-top flair of arcade video-games graphics.
Only |J|Q|Z| are done from scratch, but most letters still needed some interpretation in order to choose what to keep as a detail and what to discard as just an artefact.
As per the samples available, it's just uppercase (plus the lonely lowercase |c|).
It is possible that the original wasn't a pixel font after all, or that the pixels weren't square, and probably it had a higher resolution than 13×13.
Presenting Taito's Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh (aka. Arkanoid II), released in 1987 for the arcade, and 1988 for the NES/Famicom. For the full font set without monospace, see SuperMechatron64's Full Set Font of Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh.