Recreation of the pixel font from MD Software/Activision's "Knightmare" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.
This is yet another use of the same font I first stumbled on in the "Dizzy" games, with slightly different punctuation marks/special characters. This time at least, there's a connection to "Last Ninja 2" (which also uses this font), as they're both by the same programmer, Mev Dinc.
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 large pixel font from Julian Gollop/Target Games' "Laser Squad" (1988) on the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and MSX.
This font is simply a double-height version of the regular font.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Laser SquadRecreation of the pixel font from System 3/Beam Software's "Last Ninja 2" (1988) on the Amstrad CPC.
On the Amstrad, the font is used for the score counter and timer, and the screens between levels. In "Last Ninja 2 Remix" (1990), the font is also used for the initial title screen.
The title screen of the ZX Spectrum remix version also uses his font, but otherwise sticks to a different font for any other text, just like the regular/non-remix version.
Oddly, the font is the same (with the exception of the punctuation marks) as the one in Codemasters' "Dizzy II - Treasure Island Dizzy" (1988).
Only the characters used in the game have been included.
This is a clone of Dizzy III - Fantasy World DizzyRecreation of the pixel font from Gargoyle Games' "Marsport" (1985) on the ZX Spectrum.
Note that the font defined in the game only sets custom latin alphabet characters (a-z). For any other characters, it reuses the standard ZX Spectrum font. The same is true for the Amstrad CPC version, where any characters (numbers, punctuation, etc) are pulled from the standard Amstrad system font.
This recreation includes the handful of (Spectrum) characters (numbers and punctuation) that are used in the game. Beyond that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Ashby Computers and Graphics / Ultimate Play the Game's "Martianoids" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and MSX.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the proportional pixel font from Mark Cale/System 3's "Myth: History in the Making" (1989) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.
Note that while the letters are proportional, the numbers are all set to a fixed width.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Mastertronic Added Dimension's "Ninja" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC.
This recreation includes the weird (buggy?) character used in some of the late game room names (like the "green room"), mapped to the "_" underscore.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Serge Payeur/Ubisoft's "Peur sur Amityville" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC.
Note the inclusion of the "square root" character, which is used as part of the story. The original game seems to only include the lowercase "é" and "è" diacritics (and they both look the same, with the accent just being a horizontal line above the letter). In this recreation, I expanded this to include "ê" and "ë", and to apply the same approach to the lowercase accented "a", "i", "o", "u", and "y". Lastly, this recreation includes a "ç" character, which was absent from the game.
Apart from these additions, only the characters used in the game have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Graftgold/Hewson Consultants' "Ranarama" (1987) on the ZX Spectrum.
This recreation includes the handful of futhark runes used in the game, though one of the runes appears to be made up.
The same font is used in the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 ports, though the runes are slightly different.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Codemasters' "Rockstar Ate My Hamster" (1988). Slightly expanded with a few additional custom characters not present in the original game.
Edited (11/2016) to fix some of the characters, based on a more accurate source (C64 emulation of the game) and to include the "BLACK LARGE SQUARE" (U+2B1B) unicode character.
Recreation of the pixel font from the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum versions of the Gargoyle Games/Elite platformer "Scooby Doo in the Castle Mystery" (1986). Only the characters used in the game have been included, with a few minor tweaks to fix the uneven baseline of some of the special characters.
Recreation of the pixel font from Mastertronic's "Spellbound" (1985) on the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64.
The same font was reused (with a few minor changes to punctuation/special characters) in the sequels "Knight Tyme" (1986) and "Stormbringer" (1987)
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Binary Vision/Palace Software's "Stifflip & Co." (1987) on the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.
Note the special characters, mapped to U+2318, U+269B, U+26A1, U+2733, and U+AA5C.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation 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 font is also used for the credits on the ZX Spectrum version, but otherwise a fatter version is used anywhere else in the game.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation 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)