What are those things called where...?

Question

where you make a character/ person from somwhere and you make him/her using the keys on your keyboard. for example...

http://pokemon.marriland.com/diamond_pearl/walkthrough

go down a little and youll see what i mean.

any guesses?

Answer 1

Well, when there are words to read that look like something, it is probably a concrete poem, but that doesn't really look like a poem... IDK, hope this helps! :)

Answer 2

they are called ascii art :D