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> So, to summarize: A font from an early 1st-party Mac game made it (questionably?) onto some Mac shareware disks. A programmer at EA found it, converted it, an
by doomlaser 7y ago
> So, to summarize: A font from an early 1st-party Mac game made it (questionably?) onto some Mac shareware disks. A programmer at EA found it, converted it, and included it with Deluxe Paint. From there, it then appeared in a lot of other games whose artists used that program.
Squaresoft also famously used the original Mac system font, Chicago (designed by Susan Kare) for their English language SNES releases of Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy III US, Secret of Evermore, etc — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(typeface) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(typeface)
- mwcremer 7y agoThe "1st-party Mac game" in question is Through the Looking Glass -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass_(vid...