Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project" (1991, released in Japan as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Manhattan Project") on the Famicom/NES.
This tile set originally included only a partial set of hiragana and katakana characters - these have been extended a bit in this recreation to make it more useful, but it's still not 100% complete. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
The original tile set was, oddly, also missing the latin "Q". This has been added here for completeness.
Apart from this, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Probe Software/Image Works's "Back to the Future Part III" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
While the font includes a complete lowercase, this isn't used in the actual game.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Westone/Sega's "Wonder Boy in Monster World" (aka "Wonder Boy V: Monster World III", 1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned vertically above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the latin pixel font from Wolf Team's "Arcus Odyssey" (aka "Arcus Spirits", 1991).
The alphanumeric characters are the same as Wolf Team's "Granada" (1990), but with different punctuation and special characters. The font remained the same between the original (on the Sharp x68000) and subsequent ports to the Super Famicom and the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set (on the Super Famicom) have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's "Death Brade" (aka "Mutant Fighters", 1991).
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Copya System/Seibu Kaihatsu's "Raiden Trad" (aka "Raiden Densetsu", 1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
For the most part, it is identical to the original arcade version, but with subtle tweaks to the "J", "O", the exclamation mark, and with fewer special characters/punctuation marks.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of RaidenRecreation of the title screen pixel font from Seibu Kaihatsu/Hudson Soft's port of "Raiden" (1991) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
The ROM is missing a few characters, so this extended recreation includes custom letters for "J", "Q", "W", "X", "Y", and "Z". Apart from these, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the monochromatic version of the pixel font from The Bitmap Brother's "Gods" (1991) on the Amiga and Atari ST.
This monochromatic version is used in game for notifications and status messages at the bottom of the screen, on a green gradient "ticker".
Only the characters used in the game have been included.
Recreation of the colour pixel font from The Bitmap Brother's "Gods" (1991) port on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Golden Axe II" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Presenting Paramount Pictures and Ocean's Addams Family, released in 1991. This font is based on movies, especially this font is similar to Parasol Stars, which was created by Patrick H. Lauke (redux).
This is a clone of Parasol Stars (NES)Recreation of the pixel font from SETA/Visco's "Caliber .50" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
The font includes an almost complete set of (unused) hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Johnson Voorsanger Productions/Sega's "ToeJam & Earl" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
In the game, this font is dynamically switched with another variant, creating an animated text effect.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Johnson Voorsanger Productions/Sega's "ToeJam & Earl" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
In the game, this font is dynamically switched with another variant, creating an animated text effect.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font (used for the title screen and highscores) from Rainbow Arts/Factor 5's "Turrican" (1990) and "Turrican II" (1991) on the Amiga. Note the special characters mapped to "lightning" (U+2607), "skull and crossbones" (U+2620) and "black heart suit" (U+2665).
The same font - with a reduced number of special characters - was also used in "Mega Turrican" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and the first "Super Turrican" (1993) on the SNES.
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 Turrican / Turrican IIRecreation of the pixel font from Data East's "Captain America and The Avengers" (1991) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sunsoft's "Ufouria: The Saga" (aka "Hebereke", 1991) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
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.
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 pixel font from Technōs/Acclaim's "Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone" (aka "Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones", 1991) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Note that the Japanese version uses a different/thin exclamation mark. This recreation only includes the bold version of the exclamation mark used in the European and US versions.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Laser Soft/Telenet/Atlus' "Super Valis IV" (aka "Super Valis - Akaki Tsuki no Otome", 1991) on the SNES.
This font is used primarily for the game's intro cinematic.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Laser Soft/Telenet/Atlus' "Super Valis IV" (aka "Super Valis - Akaki Tsuki no Otome", 1991) on the SNES.
This font is used in the game itself (level start/end screens, and the top interface).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Laser Soft/Telenet/Atlus' "Super Valis IV" (aka "Super Valis - Akaki Tsuki no Otome", 1991) on the SNES.
This font is used for the title screen and (partially) for the end credits.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a cloneRecreation of one of the pixel fonts from Laser Soft/Telenet/Atlus' "Super Valis IV" (aka "Super Valis - Akaki Tsuki no Otome", 1991) on the SNES.
This font is used for the title screen and (partially) for the end credits.
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 cloneRecreation of one of the pixel fonts from the western release of Telenet/Renovation Game's "Valis III" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used in all the cinematics and end credits.
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 Valis III (Variant 1) (Genesis)Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from the western release of Telenet/Renovation Game's "Valis III" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used in all the in-game dialog boxes.
Compared to variant 1, this font doesn't include the "#", adds arrows, and has different shapes for the "g", "j", "p", "q", "y", "0", ":", ";", and "|".
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Valis III (Variant 1) (Genesis)