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Clone of The Video Arcade Game Font. The ubiquitous video game font standard, used since 1977 ("Dominos" by Atari) until well into the 1990s. Used by most video arcade game companies, including (but not limited to): Namco, Williams Electronics, Irem, Atari, Konami, Bally-Midway, Taito, Nintendo and Sega. The lower case characters are from several Atari video arcade games from 1984-1987. Plenty of alternate characters -- variations used in conjunction with the standard font, all selected from a variety of MAME32 game roms.
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192 characters, 12 downloads
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Mon, 13th July, 12:02 AM 2009
Last Edit:
Mon, 13th July, 12:03 AM 2009
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Video, Game, Arcade, Video Game, Namco, Williams, Electronics, Irem, Atari, Konami, Bally, Midway, Taito, Nintendo, Sega
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Discussion

Fopenplop
Fopenplop Fri, 11th September, 3:08 AM

Who originally invented this font? I love it!

Goatmeal
Goatmeal Sun, 13th September, 6:12 PM

Thank you for the kind words!

I don't really know who designed this typeface for video game use; the earliest sighting to which I have access is from 1977's ''Dominos'' by Atari, so I can only assume it was designed by Atari.


As I do not have access to every video arcade game ever created, it should be noted that there may be an even earlier example.


Here are some other known versions of this typeface style (from my personal collection):

Yuji Adachi
''Arcade-I'' (1997)
''Arcade-N'' (1997)

Codeman38
''Press Start Regular'' (2001)

Neale Davidson
''Emulator Normal'' (1998/2000)

Jakob Fischer / PizzaDude
''Arcade'' (1998/2000?/2003)
''Arcade 2003'' (2003)
''Arcade Classic'' (1998/2000?/2003)
''Arcade Classic 2003'' (2003)

Freaky Fonts / ck!
''Emulogic'' (2004)

Koen Hachmang
''Arcade Classic'' (1999)

Paul D. Hunt / FontStruct
''Arcade Fever'' (2008)

Ray Larabie
''Joystix'' (1996/1997)

Genshichi Yasui
[character remapping by Codeman38]
''Atari Font Bitmap'' (1999/2000?)