Recreation of the pixel font from Hudson Soft's "The Dynastic Hero" (1993) on the PC Engine - a remake/rebrand of Westone's "Wonder Boy in Monster World" (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 vertically above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.

Note the special circled roman numerals "Ⅰ" and "Ⅱ", which have been mapped to "Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit One" (U+278A) and "Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Two" (U+278B).

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the main pixel font from Naxat/Compile's "Spriggan Mark 2: Re-Terraform Project" (1992) on the PC Engine.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Naxat/Compile's "Spriggan Mark 2: Re-Terraform Project" (1992) on the PC Engine.

This font, used in the game's options screen, is mostly the same as the font used in the first "Spriggan" (1991), but it adds a whole new lowercase (though it has an oddly mismatched baseline) and replaces some of the punctuation characters.

Note the addition of 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 Epyx's "California Games" (1987) on the Sega Master System.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Jaleco's "Takeda Shingen" (1988).

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Atari/Midway's "T-MEK" (1994).

In this recreation, the lowercase letters have been shifted by one pixel, to set them on the same baseline as the uppercase characters. Note the addition of the "1." - "6." numbers, mapped to the roman numeral code point (U+2160 - U+2165).

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's "The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy" (1990).

This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana, even though they're not actually used in the game.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Tatsumi's "Big Fight: Big Trouble in the Atlantic Ocean" (1992).

The tile set contains a full set of hiragana and katakana, but as the game does not use them (with the exception of the CJK quotation marks U+300C and U+300D, which are used - confusingly - to quote english dialogue in the end cinematic), these have not been added here.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Sega/Sanritsu's "Alien Syndrome" (1988) on the NES.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Monster in My Pocket" (1992) on the NES.

This font was reused, with some variations (most notably on the "Q", "5", "W", "Z", and the punctuation marks), for "Batman Returns" (1993) on the SNES.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Mitchell's "Charlie Ninja" (1995).

The tile set includes a full set of katakana, even though they're not used in the game itself. 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 the pixel font from Sunsoft's "Journey to Silius" (aka "Rough World", "[rʌf] WORLD", 1990) on the NES/Famicom. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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 large pixel font from Irem's "Air Assault" (aka "Fire Barrel", 1993). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of Pixel/Visco/Romstar's "Cowboy Kid" (aka "Western Kid", 1991) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

My own attempt at a small, chunky, proportional font. Inspired by elements of similar small 4x4 fonts - though breaking out of a strict 4x4 restriction where absolutely necessary, and with the addition of some non-chunky punctuation and special characters.

Recreation of the pixel font from Natsume/Angel's "Chōjin Sentai Jetman" (1991) on the NES/Famicom. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from KID/VAP's "Doki! Doki! Yūenchi: Crazy Land Daisakusen" (aka "The Trolls in Crazyland", 1991) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from NMK's "Hacha Mecha Fighter" (1991).

This font includes a full set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles (with one exception). 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 the secondary pixel font from Namco's "Steel Gunner 2" (1990). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Rare/Milton Bradley's "Captain Skyhawk" (1990) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of one of the large pixel fonts from Taito's "Taito Power Goal" (aka "Hat Trick Hero '95", 1994).

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Taito's "Taito Power Goal" (aka "Hat Trick Hero '95", 1994).

The uppercase and some of the punctuations marks are the same as "Gunlock" (1993), but this font includes a matching lowercase.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Dooyong's "The Last Day" (1990).

The letters are used exclusively for the highscore name entry (while the highscore list itself then uses the main font). While some characters are the same, the majority show slight differences to the primary font.The number characters appear to be unused in the game itself.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Dooyong's "The Last Day" (1990).

This font includes an large number of unused characters, including a lowercase and an almost complete set of accented characters.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from the Dooyong/Atlus' "Pollux" (1991), which was also used in "Gulf Storm" (1991).

The lowercase (which was also present in "The Last Day" (1990) by the same company) is not used in the games.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of Bally Midway/Data East's "Rampage" (1988) on the NES.

In the game, the comma is constructed from two separate tiles, aligned vertically. In this recreation, these have been combined into a single character. As a result, this font has an overall height that's larger than 8 pixels.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Natsume's "S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team" (aka "Final Mission", "Action in New York", 1990) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font used in Konami's ZR107 BIOS based games - "Road Rage: Speed King" (1995), "Midnight Run" (1996), "Winding Heat" (1996). Only the characters present in the BIOS' tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from KID/Capcom's "G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor" (1992) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from KID/Taxan's "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" (1991) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Seibu Kaihatsu's "Seibu Cup Soccer" (1992). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.