Fontstructions tagged with “1983”

6 3760 Published: 15th July, 2019
Last edited: 15th July, 2019
Created: 14th July, 2019

Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's "Donkey Kong Classics" (1988) on the NES, which combines the fonts from "Donkey Kong" (1981) and "Donkey Kong Jr." (1982).

The one distinctive feature of this font are the "G" and the exclamation mark. Note that in the original "Donkey Kong" (1981) the period/full stop and the ".," (mapped here to the ";") were one pixel higher than in the "Classics" version. In addition, this recreation includes the maths symbols ("+", "-", "×", "÷") from "Donkey Kong Jr. Math" (1983). "Donkey Kong Jr. Math" and "Donkey Kong 3" (1983) also used this same font, except they changed the "8".

Other than the additions of the maths symbols, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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2 22191 Published: 15th May, 2019
Last edited: 15th May, 2019
Created: 15th May, 2019

The Nintendo Entertainment System font, but with bite marks, mostly in the top left corner. Some of the font is custom-made, such as letters with accents. Uppercase and lowercase for the default 26 & accents are the same.

NOTE: There are two U's that are are unaccented & without a bite.

This is a clone of Nintendo Font

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20 02190 Published: 12th May, 2019
Last edited: 15th May, 2019
Created: 20th November, 2018

The Font used on the Nintendo Entertainment System that was created in 1983. Some of the font is custom-made, such as letters with accents. Uppercase and lowercase for the default 26 & accents are the same.

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7 3802 Published: 23rd November, 2018
Last edited: 22nd November, 2018
Created: 22nd November, 2018

Recreation of the pixel font from Stern's "Great Guns" (1983). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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19 0941 Published: 4th April, 2017
Last edited: 4th April, 2017
Created: 28th February, 2017

A retro-modern display font, inspired by video game fonts of the 1980's.

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4 1680 Published: 7th November, 2016
Last edited: 7th November, 2016
Created: 6th November, 2016

Recreation of the pixel font from Jaleco's "Pop Flamer" (1982), with a few extra punctuation marks from the expanded version used in "Chameleon" (1983). Only the characters present in the games' tile sets have been included.

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34 1842 Published: 21st July, 2015
Last edited: 21st July, 2015
Created: 21st July, 2015
Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's original "Mario Bros." (1983). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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13 1633 Published: 10th January, 2015
Last edited: 10th January, 2015
Created: 10th January, 2015
Recreation of the pixel font from Bally Midway's "Tapper" (1983). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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16 1661 Published: 4th November, 2014
Last edited: 4th November, 2014
Created: 4th November, 2014
Recreation of the pixel font from Bally Midway's "Spy Hunter" (1983). Note the "car" icon, which has been mapped to "#". Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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10 2671 Published: 12th September, 2014
Last edited: 12th September, 2014
Created: 12th September, 2014
Recreation of the pixel font from Bally Midway's "Discs of Tron" (1983). Note the little man icon, used to indicate the number of lives, mapped to the "#". There are subtle differences compared to "Tron" (1982) in the letters "d", "g", "k", "n", "q", "x", "y", "z", "0", "4", "6", "9", the addition of punctuation marks characters, the little man symbol, and the copyright sign. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.This is a clone of Tron

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7 2652 Published: 16th January, 2014
Last edited: 16th January, 2014
Created: 17th December, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Kaneko's "Jump Coaster" (1983). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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12 11363 Published: 16th January, 2014
Last edited: 16th January, 2014
Created: 17th December, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Kaneko's "Fighting Roller" (aka "Roller Aces", 1983). The same font was also used in Kaneko's "VS Gong Fight" (1984). This version includes an almost complete set of katakana characters. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.This is a clone of Lady Master of Kung Fu / Nunchackun

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5 1722 Published: 11th January, 2014
Last edited: 10th December, 2013
Created: 9th December, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Exidy's lightgun game "Crossbow" (1983). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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6 1711 Published: 7th January, 2014
Last edited: 17th November, 2013
Created: 17th November, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Gottlieb's "Mad Planets" (1983). Only characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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8 2693 Published: 8th December, 2013
Last edited: 10th November, 2013
Created: 10th November, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Roc'n Rope" (1983). Note the slightly awkward "G" and the complete lowercase, which is present in the game ROM but does not seem to be used in the actual game. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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7 1672 Published: 3rd November, 2013
Last edited: 29th October, 2013
Created: 29th October, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font used in Konami's "Mega Zone" (1983). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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9 1672 Published: 21st October, 2013
Last edited: 20th October, 2013
Created: 20th October, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font used in Jaleco's "Exerion" (1983). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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14 1751 Published: 31st August, 2013
Last edited: 30th August, 2013
Created: 30th August, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Taito's "Chack'n Pop" (1983), one of the ancestors of "Bubble Bobble" (1986). Note that the lowercase is the same as the uppercase, with the exception of the "n". The tiny "Chack'n" character icon has been mapped to "white smiling face" (U+263a). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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13 5633 Published: 4th August, 2013
Last edited: 28th November, 2013
Created: 24th July, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font used in Bally Midway's bizarre "Journey" (1983), featuring the actual band Journey. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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6 1784 Published: 28th April, 2013
Last edited: 28th April, 2013
Created: 28th April, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Sesame Japan Corporation's only game, "Vastar" (1983). With the exception of some additional arrows, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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54 41144 Published: 24th January, 2013
Last edited: 7th May, 2013
Created: 19th January, 2013
Recreation of the font used in Namco's classic shooter "Xevious" (1983), slightly expanded with a few extra characters. UPDATED to retrospectively fix some stray characters and to include &, "sound recording copyright" (U+2117) and the "airplane" dingbat (U+2708).

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14 4954 Published: 22nd January, 2013
Last edited: 29th April, 2013
Created: 21st January, 2013
Recreation of the font used in Universal Games' classic "Lady Bug" (1981), and later in "Mr. Do!" (1982), "Mr. Do's Castle" (1983), "Mr. Do's Wild Ride" (1984) and "Jumping Jack" (1984). This font has been slightly expanded with a few extra characters. Note the heart icon, which is mapped to the "black heart" (U+2665) unicode point. UPDATED to include the more correct @ symbol and to remap the heart icon from * to unicode point.

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97 51207 Published: 10th July, 2012
Last edited: 21st August, 2014
Created: 8th July, 2012
my take on the classic nintendo NES font. this is an amalgam of some of the type used in the early games like super mario bros, duck hunt, wild gun man and legend of zelda. i further added a handful of special characters, trying to match the style of the existing letters.

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26 11133 Published: 19th April, 2011
Last edited: 3rd October, 2014
Created: 19th April, 2011
Another pixel font inspired by the Williams Electronics classic arcade game "Robotron 2084" (1982). This one was used for smaller, incidental on-screen messages. The same font was reused for one of the sequels, "Blaster" (1983). Designed to be used aliased at a size of 8 pixels (or multiples thereof).

Pixel Optimized

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78 11133 Published: 18th April, 2011
Last edited: 3rd October, 2014
Created: 18th April, 2011
Pixel font inspired by the Williams Electronics classic arcade game "Robotron 2084" (1982). The same font was reused for one of the sequels, "Blaster" (1983). Designed to be used aliased at a size of 8 pixels (or multiples thereof).

Pixel Optimized

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6 1701 Published: 14th December, 2019
Last edited: 23rd March, 2014
Created: 19th March, 2014
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Regulus" (1983). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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50 11225 Published: 14th December, 2019
Last edited: 21st August, 2014
Created: 10th July, 2012
companion font to Nintendoid 1. once again, this is an amalgam, with a few alternative characters from further early nintendo games like RC Pro-Am, Galaga, and the lowercase from Metroid.This is a clone of Nintendoid 1

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