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Button masher

Video game concept

Player performance is largely dependent on how fast they can press controller buttons, often just one or two (likely pressed alternatingly).

8
games
8
platforms

Name variations: button mashing, button smasher, button smashing

Hyper Sports (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Hyper Sports
NES 1985-09-27
Hyper Sports (Arcade)
Hyper Sports
ARCD 1984-07-23
Hyper Sports (ZX Spectrum)
Hyper Sports
SPC 1985
Hyper Sports (Commodore 64)
Hyper Sports
C64 1985
Hyper Sports (Sega SG-1000)
Hyper Sports
SG1K 1985
Hyper Sports (Amstrad CPC)
Hyper Sports
CPC 1986
Hyper Sports 1 (MSX)
Hyper Sports 1
MSX 1984
Olympia (Dragon32)
Olympia
D32 1984
Although games dedicated to this have disappeared, the gameplay element lives on in some quick time events.

Games by year

848586 41230

The first Button masher video game was released in 1984.

Imagine and Konami published most of these games.

Platforms

Arcade 1
ZX Spectrum 1
MSX 1
C64 1
Amstrad CPC 1
SG-1000 1
NES 1
Dragon32 1