Remade version of "kaysq" with added support for Codepage 437 and some extras. Some glyphs modified - original variations in PUA and Halfwidth And Fullwidth Forms. 

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Update Log
V1.0 - Initial release.

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"kaysq" was made by MSX.

This is a font made to mimic the font used by Konami for their games on the MSX computer back in the 1980’s:

Recreation of the pixel font from Hayarobi's "Mokpyo-neun Jeokkun-ui Gitbal" (1984) (a dreadful "Rally-X" rip-off) the lost game.

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

Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "SD Snatcher" (1990) on the MSX2.

The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are stored in a separate tile. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph. The dakuten and handakuten are not 8 pixels wide, and when used in game, they only take up as much width as necessary, making the Japanese text variable width/proportional. The latin characters, however, are all monospaced.

The game also includes a large number of Japanese idiographs. These have not been included in this recreation.

Except for the idiographs, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Ocean Software's "Tai-Pan" (1987) on the MSX and ZX Spectrum.

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

Recreation 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.

Recreation of the pixel font from Julian Gollop/Target Games' "Laser Squad" (1988) on the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and MSX.

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 international character set for ASCII Corporation/Spectravideo's MSX computer (1983).

The majority of the characters (with a few exception) have been mapped to their respective modern unicode points.

The recreation also includes a few additional accented and special characters from the Brazilian/Portugese variant. Beyond these, only the characters present in the original ROM have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Doki Doki Penguin Land" (1985) on the MSX. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Casio Software's "Exoide-Z Area 5" (1986) on the MSX. Note the spaceship icon, which is mapped to the unicode 'airplane' (U+2708) character. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Compile/Pony Canyon's "Zanac" (1986) on the MSX. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Taito's "Xyzolog" (1985) on the MSX. Note the special "L" (mapped to lowercase "L"), and the lowercase "y" and "z". Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included. 

Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Vampire Killer" (aka "Castlevania", "Akumajō Dracula", 1986) on the MSX2. This font is used in the game's end cinematic. Only the characters present in the game's ROM have been included.