Recreation of the pixel font from Codemasters' "Dizzy III - Fantasy World Dizzy" (1989) on the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.
The same font is used in all subsequent "Dizzy" adventure games - "Dizzy 3 and a Half - Into Magicland" (1991), "Dizzy IV - Magicland Dizzy" (1991), "Dizzy V - Spellbound Dizzy" (1991), and "Dizzy - Prince of the Yolkfolk" (1992).
Note that "Dizzy V - Spellbound Dizzy" (1991) uses the "66" style left quotation marks (U+201C) at the start of any speech, while in all other games the "Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark" (U+201F) is used.
"Dizzy II - Treasure Island Dizzy" (1988) already used an early version of this font, but with fewer special characters. One major difference is the single quote/apostrophe character - compared to all later games, which use a "9" style apostrophe, "Dizzy II" used a straight diagonal small one. This has been included in this recreation, mapped to "Right Single Quotation Mark" (U+2019).
Also note that the egg character - used to indicate lives in game - is mapped to "black circle" (U+25CF).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Updated 06/2023: added the apostrophe from "Dizzy II", added the "66" style left quotation mark, and confirmed that this same font is used for the rest of the series, and on all other 8-bit platforms.
Recreation of the pixel font from Codemasters' "Dizzy the Adventurer" (1992) - a remake of "Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk" (1991) - on the NES.
Almost identical to previous Dizzy fonts, with a few minor tweaks to the "R", "4", and "9", as well as the addition of accented and special characters.
In this recreation, I added a few more variants of the accented characters, to make the font more useful. Apart from these, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Dizzy III - Fantasy World DizzyRecreation of the coloured version of the pixel font from Codemasters' "Striker in the Crypts of Trogan" (aka "Stryker in the Crypts of Trogan", 1992) on the Amstrad CPC.
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 Striker in the Crypts of Trogan (Amstrad)Recreation of the pixel font from Codemasters' "Striker in the Crypts of Trogan" (aka "Stryker in the Crypts of Trogan", 1992) on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.
Note that on the C64, it seems that the game occasionally doubles up one of the lines, to make characters one pixel taller. In addition, the Spectrum version also uses the thin variant of the font for the credits.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Enix's "Dragon Warrior IV" (1992) on the NES.
Identical to "Dragon Warrior III" (1990), except for the full stop and ellipsis punctuation marks, and the absence of the semicolon.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Dragon Warrior (NES)Recreation of the pixel font from Sims/Tecmo/Sega's "Ninja Gaiden" (1992) on the Sega Master System.
Note the "?!" character, which has been mapped to "‽" (U+203D).
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 Ninja Gaiden (SMS)Recreation of the small pixel font from Quintet/Enix's "Soul Blazer" (1992) on the SNES.
This small variant is only used on the title screen, the in-game stats, display, and in a few dialogues (specifically, when talking to the trees in GreenWood).
Note that the game only includes lowercase versions of accented characters (for the French and German translations), which are doubled-up and used instead of uppercase characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Presenting Virgin Games and McDonald's M.C. Kids, released in 1991 (or 1992), this game is made for kids, as long as a cartoon made of: M.C. Kids Adventures.
Presenting Namco's Final Lap, released in 1987 for the Arcade, and 1988 for the NES/Famicom.
Here is the coloured version here.
Presenting Manfred Trenz's Super Turrican, released in 1992 by Imagineer Company and Rainbow Arts GmbH.
Special Thanks to: Patrick H. Lauke
Presenting Capcom's Darkwing Duck, released in 1992 (or 1993). This font is the same to Talespin.