The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
mickey mouse program
n.
North American equivalent of a noddy (that is, trivial) program. Doesn't
necessarily have the belittling connotations of mainstream slang ?Oh,
that's just mickey mouse stuff!?; sometimes trivial programs can be very
useful.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
mickey mouse program
The North American equivalent of a "noddy program",
i.e. trivial. The term doesn't necessarily have the belittling
connotations of mainstream slang "Oh, that's just mickey mouse
stuff!"; sometimes trivial programs can be very useful.
[Jargon File]
(1995-04-10)