Retro games are hot. Super Mario Bros, Tetris, Donkey Kong... they all remain popular and continue to be sold to new gamers. This🍬 DSiWare app, though, goes way, way back, before anyone ever even thought a crime-fighting plumber could become a multimillion-dollar franchise.

The app, calle🔴d Petit Computer, has a few games pre-installed: a Pac-Man clone, a text-based RPG, and a shooting game, all created in BASIC.

Of course, the real treat here is the ability to create and run your own games. In this mode, the bottom screen functions as a touchsc♛reen keyboard while the top screen displays the command prompts.

BASIC, an acronym that was probably reverse-engineered to stand for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is credited as being the first widely accessible computer programming language, and was first introduced in 1964. T♌he root of the language still lives on today in sophisticated Visual Basic development code.

So it's not LittleBigPlanet, but it's a neat little app for the die-hard computer junki🌱es out there. There's no word yet on whether or not it will make its way to the US DSiWare platform.

[Source: (Japanese) via ]

Feb 24, 2011

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