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.

Recreation of the pixel font from Dooyong's "Flying Tiger" (1992). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Tecmo's "Solomon's Key 2" (aka "Fire 'n Ice", 1992) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from NMK/Tecmo's "Saboten Bombers" (1992). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Taito's "Super Chase: Criminal Termination" (1992). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of an unused pixel font found in Taito's "Super Chase: Criminal Termination" (1992). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from NMK/Tecmo's "GunNail" (1992).

The lowercase and most of the special characters are unused in the game itself.

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

Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "G.I. Joe" (1992).

At its core, the game is a revised and expanded version of "Devastators" (1988), and the font is almost identical - with subtly different spacing, and a few extra punctuation marks.

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

Recreation of the small pixel font from Hot-B/Taito's "Play Girls" (1992).

Only the characters present in the game's tile set  - including the oddly reversed "Z" - have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Sunsoft's "Superman: The Man of Steel" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from SIMS' "Master of Darkness" (aka "Vampire: Master of Darkness", "In the Wake of Vampire", 1993) on the Sega Master System.

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

Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Hudson Soft's "Felix the Cat" (1992) on the NES.

This font is used primarily in the game's cut-scenes and end screen. Note the numero character "№" (U+2116).

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

Recreation of the main pixel font from Probe Software/Acclaim's "Alien 3" (1992) on the SNES.

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

Recreation of the secondary font from Jaleco's "Brawl Brothers" (aka "Rushing Beat Ran", 1992) on the SNES.

In the western release, this font is only used in the "option mode" menu, while in the japanese version it features on the title screen and main menu as well.

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

Recreation of the primary font from Jaleco's "Brawl Brothers" (aka "Rushing Beat Ran", 1992) on the SNES.

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

Recreation of the main pixel font from Sega's "Ninja Gaiden" (1992) for the Sega Master System.

Note the "interrobang" character (U+203D).

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

Recreation of the limited pixel font for the high score entry on Midway/Bally's "Creature from the Black Lagoon 3D" (1992) pinball, and later reused in other machines such as "Theatre of Magic" (1995). Only the latin characters used in the game have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Malibu Interactive/Sega's "Batman Returns" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included. 

Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Masaya/NCS' "Shockman" (aka "Kaizō Chōjin Schbibinman 2: Aratanaru Teki", 1989, 1992) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.

This font is used in the western release for all dialog boxes.

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

Recreation of the primary pixel font from Masaya/NCS' "Shockman" (aka "Kaizō Chōjin Schbibinman 2: Aratanaru Teki", 1989, 1992) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.

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

Recreation of the italic/slanted pixel font from Konami's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist" (aka "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder", 1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

This font is used in the initial title crawl and in the dialogs/cutscenes. The same font was also used in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time" (1992) Super Nintendo port.

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

Recreation of the primary pixel font from Konami's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist" (aka "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder", 1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

The game uses a crisp, non-antialiased version of the same font used in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1989) and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time" (1991) arcade machines. The same font was also used in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time" (1992) Super Nintendo port.

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

Recreation of the pixel font from Nihon System Inc/Data East's "Pocket Gal Deluxe" (1992).

This recreation includes the ball number icons, mapped to the relevant unicode "Enclosed Alphanumerics" characters (U+2460 - U+2469).

The spacing of some of the punctuation/special characters (not used in the actual game) was tweaked, to make them more usable.

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

Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's "Diet Go Go" (1992).

The spacing of some of the punctuation/special characters (not used in the actual game) was tweaked, to make them more usable.

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

Recreation of the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

This font is unusual, as each character not only comprises two tiles (for its height), but also features characters that are wider than the maximum 8px tiles. In the game's tile set, this was achieved by using a custom encoding, where a single tile contains the combined values for two horizontal tiles.

See this short Twitter thread for a little dissection of the tile set.

The width of each character is also variable and encoded in the bottom tile for each character. Unfortunately, I was unable to work out the logic behind the width information bits - so, for characters used in the game, the correct width was matched manually, and for any characters not encountered (yet) in any of the dialog boxes, I took an educated guess...

Due to the complexity of this encoding, I won't tackle the hiragana/katakana large font from the japanese release.

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

Recreation of the small pixel font from the japanese release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

Compared to the european/north american release, the alphanumeric and punctuation characters are all shifted by one pixel to the left, and one pixel down. The "U" is also different, and the font lacks a lowercase.

This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tileset, 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 the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

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

Recreation of the primary pixel font from the Red/Naxat/Hudson Soft game "Air Zonk" (aka " PC Denjin Punkic Cyborg!", 1992) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.

This font contains an almost complete set of (very quirky/stylised) 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 Namco's "Fighter & Attacker" (aka "F/A", 1992). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the large pixel font from Taito's "GunBuster" (aka "Gun Buster", "Operation Gunbuster", 1992). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the small pixel font from Taito's "GunBuster" (aka "Gun Buster", "Operation Gunbuster", 1992). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Virgin Games' "The Terminator" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.