Recreation of the primary pixel font from Vic Tokai's "Clash at Demonhead" (aka "Dengeki Big Bang!", 1989) on the NES.
Note that the game features two distinct exclamation marks ... the second/straight one has been mapped to "inverted exclamation mark" (U+00A1).
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
A recreation of the font used in Midway's 'Arch Rivals', an arcade game originally released in 1989. It's actually the font taken from Miway's own 'Rampage' (1986), but expanded upon with a complete set of lowercase letters and additional punctuation.
This is a clone of RampageRecreation of the large pixel font from Taito's "Darius" (1987), also reused in "Darius II" (1989).
In the tile set for "Darius", the "$" was missing a few pixels - this was addressed in "Darius II", and this recreation contains the dollar sign from the latter version.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Masaya/NCS' "Shockman" (aka "Kaizō Chōjin Schbibinman 2: Aratanaru Teki", 1989, 1992) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
This font is used in the western release for all dialog boxes.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Masaya/NCS' "Shockman" (aka "Kaizō Chōjin Schbibinman 2: Aratanaru Teki", 1989, 1992) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Sin-Nihon Laser Soft/Telenet Japan/NEC's "Last Alert" (aka "Red Alert", 1989) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
This font is used for the cutscenes / story panels between levels in the western release.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Sin-Nihon Laser Soft/Telenet Japan/NEC's "Last Alert" (aka "Red Alert", 1989) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the hiragana and katakana pixel fonts from Konami's "Akumajō Densetsu" (aka "Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse", 1987) on the Nintendo Famicom.
This font is only used on the title screen, intro story crawl, and dialog boxes - otherwise, the game uses a standard "Nintedoid" type font like https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/676742/nintendoid_1. In contrast, the western release uses a single stylised font throughout - see https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/682911/castlevania_3_1.
In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
The game also uses a handful of actual kanji characters - however, due to their limited number and usefulness, these have not been added in this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "DuckTales" ("Wanpaku Duck Yume Bouken", 1989) on the NES/Famicom.
Now includes the katakana characters from the japanese release. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned to the right of the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of DuckTales (NES)Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "SonSon II" (1989) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
This font includes a full set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned after the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single (16px wide) glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font used on the title screen of the western release of Hudson Soft/Compile/NEC's "Blazing Lazers" (aka "Gunhed", 1989) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
The original tile set only included the numbers "1", "8" and "9" (for the copyright notice). This recreation includes the remaining numbers, made in roughly the same style. Beyond that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the title screen font from Hudson Soft/Atlus/Red's "PC Genjin" (aka "PC Kid", "Bonk's Adventure", 1989) on the PC Engine/Turbografx-16.
Fairly standard, but note some of the quirkier details in the "Q", "W", "Y", "Z" and "0".
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Enix's "Dragon Quest" (1986) on the NES, later released in North America as "Dragon Warrior" (1989) (but with a different main font, obviously).
In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten for the hiragana and katakana are separate tiles (with one exception), and positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Apart from these changes, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font used on the title screen of Enix's "Dragon Quest" (1986) on the NES, later released in North America as "Dragon Warrior" (1989). In the tile set, the "5" was missing one pixel - this has been fixed here. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Taken from the story screens from Capcom's 1989 arcade brawler Final Fight. (Interestingly, this font can also be found in the tile set from the Street Fighter 2 arcade game). Accented letters are completely custom.
Recreation of the pixel font from LJN's much reviled "The Uncanny X-Men" (1989) on the NES. Note the alternative "A" and "V" characters, mapped to upper- and lowercase. This font also includes basic box-drawin elements.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from TAD Corporation's "Toki" (1989), which was later used in "Blood Bros." (1990). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of LegionnaireRecreation of the primary pixel font from Sega's "Psycho Fox" (1989) on the Sega Master System. The spacing of the parentheses has been normalised, since the game used a custom two-tile piece exclusively for "(S)". Only the characters present in the game's tile set (and a custom comma) have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "DuckTales" (1989) on the NES. Mostly the same as the font from "Mega Man", but with a few different punctuation/special characters and a different "K". Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Mega Man 1+2