There Never Was An “NES Font,” Your Memories Are A Lie.

“This can’t be true!” you are probably thinking to yourself. “There was a standard font that all the classic NES games had! It was the same font across dozens of games! I vividly remember this!” And you are probably picturing the font from Super Mario Bros, which looks like this: “There it is!” you might be saying. All the games had it! Legend Of Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man — not so fast, this is the Mega Man font: All the letters are squared off and all of the numbers are wildly different. “Well that’s Capcom!” you might say, “maybe it’s a proprietary thing but there was a definite classic Nintendo font, used in a ton of NES games, at the very least in all the <a href="https://videogamegraders.com/nes-black-box-games-details/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">‘Black Box’</a> classic games.” Not quite. Here’s the font for Donkey Kong, the first game released for the Famicom, first “Black Box” game, predecessor of Mario Bros both regular and Super: <a href="https://ranibaker.medium.com/there-never-was-an-nes-font-your-memories-are-a-lie-2b16b3e3316">Click Here</a>