To buttonmash or not to buttonmash

[Oberfuhrer Hamm]

What games have you played require a hefty amount of buttonmashing for optimal play?

The only one that I remember was some Genny WWF game. To determine who throws who in a clinch, the person who buttonmashes the most will. Actually, once when I was over at a friends house, we were playing this game and during a match, we were buttonmashing our paddles so vigourously that our parents came into the room thinking we were pissed off and were destroying the paddles or something. Hehe, good times. :D

[Droodroo]

Remember the sub games in mortal kombat 1, test your sctrength, you had to smash the buttons to get your power up on that, the hardest level was diamond, and you had to smash like a champion.

Oh, james pond 3, the olympic one, you had to smash buttons to make your character run faster, for at matter, most atheletic games require lots of buttonsmashing.

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[Quintracker]

I hated buttonmashing, probably because I could never push it fast enough. LOL I think all the WWF games on the snes made you do that to win the grapple. It's annoying and after a while it hurts :angry:

[punkoffgirl]

I've just about perfected the techniquie of "buttonmashing" to a fine art. Which is why Willie won't play any "Mortal Kombat"-esque games against me anymore. :D

[davidbrit2]

I hate the mindless button mashing approach. If it can't be mastered with reflexes and technique, screw it. With the obvious exception of Track & Field style games, of course.

[WiseSalesman]

Crash and the Boys Street Challenge for NES. Despite the name, it's a fun game made by technos (river city ransom guys), based on "olympic street sports". Problem was, for the hammer throw, you had to button mash like mad, and I could never do it when I was younger. I always ALWAYS lost that event.

[tynstar]

The bad thing about button mashing in the WWF games is if you played against a fellow great button masher it could be a long and painfull match.

[Mr. NEStalgia]

The Dynasty Warriors games on PS2 definitely require a lot of button mashing...fun stuff!

-=Mr. NEStalgia=-

[The Manimal]

Worst game of buttonmashing EVER (that I've played, of course) would be Madden '97 for the SNES. If you create your own player, you have to go through 'training'. One of the things you have to do is buttonmash to pick up speed as you run hurdles on a track or something. I could buttonmash until my fingers had callouses on them, and I still could barely get that fucking 'person' to even walk the damn course!


Stupid.

[atomicthumbs]

I can tell you this much. Half of the time my girlfriend and I play Dead or Alive 2 on Dreamcast she kicks my ass due to button mashing.


Either that or I really suck.

[RetroYoungen]

I didn't even learn Ryu's Fireball until I was like 16, so button-mashing was part of my "technique" when it came to Street Fighter. But I lost a lot when poeple actually knew how to do stuff.

To buttonmash, or not to buttonmash, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to throw fireballs at thine enemy, or to Hurricane-Kick them to certain demise, we shall not know.
-Hamlet, after I kicked his ass in Capcom vs. SNK (that pansey)

[jaydubnb]

I say nay to button mashing! If its not a shooter, button mashing is a sure sign of a) bad game play or b) a novice player.

[Felixthegamer]

I tend to only mash on fighting games. I am not too good at them and don't play them all too often. Now, my roommate/girlfriend is great at fighting games. They are her faves. When I mash, I beat her, maybe less then 50% of the time. (This applies to home play only. At the arcade, I win maybe 80% of the time. It is not because I am good, I am not. I just cannot stand to lose in public, so I am highly motivated) I know, the odds aren't great, but when I do when it pisses her off to no end. She'll rant and rave about how there is no skill in mashing and how it is unfair.

My other friend, is a pro at button mashing. We play Halo almost every weekend. Within the first few months of starting to play, he broke his controller! The fire button was permanently mashed down.