What did they program this toy with?

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Published on 2010-05-16T12:04:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 12:10 UTC
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A rather strange question: I'm often asking myself with what programming languages things were created. I recently found this toy mini computer I played with when I was 13 or so at home. (Note: It is not one of those toy "notebooks", it's really small and came as an extra with a magazine)

"Features":

Hadware:

  • LCD with a small field of pixels where the games were going on, besides that some stats such as score, highscore etc.

  • Sounds and horrible music when started

  • A really small "keyboard" with a wire

Software:

  • At least 14 or so games, from Snake over Tetris and Breakdown to some abomination of a car racing game

  • A calculator

  • Game selecting menu

  • An alarm clock

Inside there is a really small circuit board, I don't want to open the thing up now, though.

Can you imagine if the games and "Operating System" of this thing where actually programmed using a language?

If yes, what language could it be?

If not with a programming language, how else was it created?

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