Consequently, those types of games were removed in the next couple Mario Party entries, and I’d be surprised if they were reintroduced.

But I think the true games which give button mashing their name (”BUTTON MASHAN GAEMS”) would be the fighters which became infamous because it’d be possible to win against most opponents a decent amount of the time simply by mashing buttons. This is how most people start off playing after all, since especially in the old days most fighters didn’t have intuitive movesets that were easy to grasp (I remember always wanted to do Zangief’s Piledriver but never could, hence my attempts to play with him always devolved into BUTTON MASHAN.) I think nowadays with less steep learning curves, though, this has become a much less profitable strategy in most games.

But yes fighting games, and sports games are/were the rulers of the button mashing genre.

I read about the Mario Part game that ended up injuring people, though I didn’t play it. You have to wonder if they actually bothered testing it at all Any kind of repetitive motion can cause serious problems, especially in kids!

Lately I have come under fire from my brother. Hes been accusing me of being a button masher in fighting games like Street Fighter and King of Fighters. I can understand why he would say this as I press buttons extremely quickly but most of the time I have a good idea of what I am trying to pull off. Its tough to judge because I subconsciencously know what I am doing but when he asks me afterwards I don’t know.