Recreation of the pixel font from Ubisoft's "Fer & Flamme" (1986) on the Amstrad CPC.
The same font is used in "L'Anneau de Zengara" (1987), with different arrow characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Palace Software's "The Sacred Armour of Antiriad" (1986) on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
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 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 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.
***APRIL 2023 UPDATE***
A few more characters added and spacing of the "I" letters and their variants readjusted... Also, some characters redesigned... More to come...
An attempted recreaction of the Atari Games variation of the "Joystix", "Emulator" and "Emulogic" text fonts as used in-game and during tests from 1984 to 1998... Used in games such as Gauntlet, Xybots, Pit Fighter and Hard Drivin', among various others -- albeit with some custom deviations and extra characters NOT used in the actual text style itself... Also, upon further research, spacing between the actual letters vary by individual game (based on internal alpha tests)...
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Recreation of the main pixel font from Kaneko/Taito's "Prebillian" (1986).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
In the game, the colours in the font are generally cycling. This recreation uses one specifically pleasing combination of colours during these constant transitions.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of PrebillianRecreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Gigas" (1986).
Oddly, the game was then bootlegged/modified by Nihon Systems as "Omega" (1986), though it appears that it was never widely released.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Presenting SNK Electronics's Ikari Warriors, released in 1986. This font was recreated by Patrick H. Lauke.
This is a clone of Ikari WarriorsRecreation of the pixel font from Shouei System / Toei Animation's "Hokuto no Ken" (1986) on the Nintendo Famicom.
The original only has a partial alphabet - this recreation includes custom "Q", "W", and "X" characters to make it complete. Beyond these, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Data East's "Shackled" (aka "Breywood", 1986).
This font is used primarily for the highscore screen. While each character uses four 8×8 tiles, in game the width of the characters is tweaked so that they're only 12 pixels wide (except for the three letters used for the highscore name itself, which use the full 16 pixel width), which is what this recreation uses.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.