Fontstructions tagged with “1982”

11 11211 Published: 14th September, 2019
Last edited: 14th September, 2019
Created: 14th September, 2019

Recreation of the built-in font found in the old Thomson line of 8-bit computers (Thomson MO5, MO5E, MO5NR, MO6, T9000, TO7, TO7/70, TO8, TO8D, TO9, TO9+ and Olivetti Prodest PC128).

This recreation combines the character sets found in the various localised versions. A few accented characters have been added to make the set more complete, but note that there are no acute/grave/circumflex accent versions for uppercase letters.

Apart from that, only the characters present in the original font (that I could find through emulation) have been included.

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7 3761 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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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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10 1810 Published: 8th January, 2017
Last edited: 8th January, 2017
Created: 8th January, 2017

Recreation of the pixel font from Universal's "Snap Jack" (1982). This font is identical to the one from "Cosmic Avenger" (1981), but includes an additional single quote mark. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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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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4 1580 Published: 21st October, 2015
Last edited: 21st October, 2015
Created: 21st October, 2015

This was used in one of Jaleco's early games Naughty Boy and Pop Flamer made in 1982. This font would make another appearance in Jaleco's Chameleon made in 1983.

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38 1793 Published: 3rd October, 2014
Last edited: 3rd October, 2014
Created: 30th September, 2014
Recreation of the pixel font from Williams Electronics' "Sinistar" (1982). Only the characters used in the game have been included.

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15 1762 Published: 3rd October, 2014
Last edited: 3rd October, 2014
Created: 3rd October, 2014
Recreation of the small pixel font from Williams Electronics' "Sinistar" (1982), which is also used in "Bubbles" (1982). Only the characters used in the game have been included.This is a clone of Splat (Small)

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11 1772 Published: 3rd October, 2014
Last edited: 3rd October, 2014
Created: 30th September, 2014
Recreation of the small pixel font used in Williams Electronics' "Splat" (1982). This font is similar to the one used in "Stargate" (1981), but has notable differences in the "e", "f", "i", "q", "1", "3", "7" and overall punctuation. Only the characters used in the game have been included.This is a clone of Stargate (Small)

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18 1751 Published: 2nd October, 2014
Last edited: 30th September, 2014
Created: 30th September, 2014
Recreation of the pixel font used in Williams Electronics' "Splat" (1982) and - with some minor variations on the "7" and ":", too insignificant to warrant a separate font recreation - "Bubbles" (1982). Only the characters used in the game have been included.

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11 2642 Published: 12th September, 2014
Last edited: 12th September, 2014
Created: 12th September, 2014
Recreation of the pixel font from Bally Midway's "Tron" (1982). Note the little man icon, used to indicate the number of lives, mapped to the "#". Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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5 1642 Published: 18th January, 2014
Last edited: 22nd December, 2013
Created: 22nd December, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Kaneko's "Fly-Boy" (1982). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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12 1622 Published: 12th January, 2014
Last edited: 10th December, 2013
Created: 10th December, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Tutankham" (1982). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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19 3702 Published: 22nd September, 2013
Last edited: 22nd September, 2013
Created: 22nd September, 2013
Recreation of the unusual 7x7 large pixel font used in Taito's "Qix" (1981) and "Qix II - Tournament" (1982). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included. The German and French version of the game feature language-specific characters, but these have not been included since they were technically constructed from two separate characters on two subsequent lines.

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15 1732 Published: 21st September, 2013
Last edited: 20th September, 2013
Created: 20th September, 2013
Recreation of the unusual 5x5 small pixel font used in Taito's "Qix" (1981) and "Qix II - Tournament" (1982). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included. The German and French version of the game feature language-specific characters, but these have not been included since they were technically constructed from two separate characters on two subsequent lines.

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13 21112 Published: 28th August, 2013
Last edited: 28th August, 2013
Created: 9th May, 2013
Combined and expanded version of the pixel font used in most Exidy games - notably "Mouse Trap" (1981), "Teeter Torture" (1982), "Catch-22"/"Combat" (1985), "Crackshot" (1985), "Chiller" (1986), "Top Secret" (1986), "Hit 'n Miss" (1987), "Showdown" (1988) and "Who Dunit" (1988). A few characters (in particular the lowercase and some punctuation) have been tweaked for better kerning.This is a clone of Mouse Trap

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8 1682 Published: 4th August, 2013
Last edited: 3rd August, 2013
Created: 3rd August, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font used in two of Exidy's games, "Hard Hat" and "Pepper II" (both from 1982). Only the characters present in the games' tile sets have been included.

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9 2642 Published: 15th July, 2013
Last edited: 15th July, 2013
Created: 12th July, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Atari's "Liberator" (1982). Only the characters used in the game have been included.

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7 1763 Published: 6th June, 2013
Last edited: 6th June, 2013
Created: 6th June, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font used in the Universal/UPL shooter "Space Raider" (1982). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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11 4813 Published: 30th May, 2013
Last edited: 30th May, 2013
Created: 29th May, 2013
Recreation of the classic Taito pixel font used in early games like Space Cruiser (1981), Alpine Ski (1982), Birdie King (1982), Front Line (1982), Jungle King (1982), Wild Western (1982) and Elevator Action (1983). Note the spaceship icon, which has been mapped to the "airplane" dingbat (U+2708).

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66 3681 Published: 25th February, 2013
Last edited: 25th February, 2013
Created: 10th February, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font used in the classic Gottlieb arcade game "Q*bert" (1982). This is the original version, which only includes the characters used in the game, the numerals shifted one pixel below the letters, and the unusually thick parentheses.

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60 101163 Published: 17th February, 2013
Last edited: 16th February, 2013
Created: 15th February, 2013
A recreation of the pixel font used in Williams Electronics' "Joust" (1982) and "Joust 2" (1986) arcade games, with a few custom characters added to make it more useful - including a set of arrows based on the "delete" left arrow from the hiscore entry screen. I took the liberty of modifying the overly chunky colon from the original, bringing it in line with the rest of the characters.

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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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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).

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80 11134 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).

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12 1102 Published: 25th February, 2020
Last edited: 22nd September, 2013
Created: 22nd September, 2013
Recreation of the additional 8x8 large pixel font used just for the score counter in Taito's "Qix" (1981) and "Qix II - Tournament" (1982). Only the number characters have been included.

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23 11081 Published: 25th February, 2020
Last edited: 25th February, 2013
Created: 25th February, 2013
Based on the pixel font used in the classic Gottlieb arcade game "Q*bert" (1982), this is the expanded version which features more special characters and fixes the quirky "numerals one pixel lower than letters" issue of the original.This is a clone of Q-bert Original

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