Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Escape Kids" (1991).
Note the "greek small letter alpha" (U+03B1), "white circle" (U+25CB) and the pointing finger icon, mapped to "rightwards arrow" (U+2192).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "QuackShot Starring Donald Duck" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
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.
Recreation of a secondary pixel font from Irem's "R-Type Complete CD" (1991) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16. This font is used in the cinematic intro, listing the stats for the R-9 fighter.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's "Silent Debuggers" (1991) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
This font contains an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, 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, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Taito's "Parasol Stars" (1991) on the NES. This version differs from the PC Engine version, introducing a few quirky characters (like the "A" and "0"). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Nintendo's "NES Open Tournament Golf" (1991) on the NES. This font is used for conversation panels and for the settings screen. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the thin variant of the primary pixel font from Nintendo's "NES Open Tournament Golf" (1991) on the NES, used on the score screen at the end of each hole. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from the US version of Quest/Palsoft's "Magical Chase" (1991) on the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16. This font is used on the main menu and shop sequences. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Nintendo's "Metroid II: Return of Samus" (1991) on the Nintendo Game Boy.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Naxat/Compile's "Seirei Senshi Spriggan" (1991) on the PC Engine.
The game includes two sets of numerals - regular and "fancy", with extra detail on the "0", "2", "4" and "5". As the fancy version is used in-game, it's the one that was included in this recreation.
Note the addition of the "black right-pointing double triangle" (U+23E9), "black circle" (U+25CF), and the stylised "A" - which doesn't seem to be used in-game, but is likely a remnant/carry-over from Compile's "Aleste" (1988) - mapped to "greek capital letter alpha" (U+0391).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Bits Studio/Flying Edge's "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive. In game, the font uses a subtle form of antialiasing on the top-left-most pixel, which has been omitted from this recreation. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" (1991). This is the extended version, which includes additional accented/extended versions of characters (based on the different european releases of the game).
This is a clone of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Big)Recreation of the pixel font from Taito's "Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III" (1991). Note the roman numerals, mapped to their respective unicode characters (U2160-U2162). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Asterix" (1991) on the Sega Master System.
Note that the font is 13px tall, as it includes some accented characters (which in game are rendered by stacking the accents above the appropriate character on the preceding line).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
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.
Expanded version of the pixel font on the start screen of Konami's "Tiny Toon Adventures" (1991) on the NES. The original only contains a very limited set of characters (incomplete uppercase and only a few lowercase letters). All additionally created characters attempt to recreate the same whimsical feel of the characters present in the game's tile set.
This is a clone of Tiny Toon Adventures (NES)Recreation of the pixel font from Imagineering/Arc Developments' "The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants" (1991) on 16bit systems (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, Atari, MS-DOS).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.