Video Game Button Masher
A Video Game Button Masher is an amateur player that tends to smash all the controller buttons at random.
- Context:
- May also refer to video games that require the players to press successive button combinations to execute attacks and/or combo moves.
- Example(s):
- Button mashing is often used in fighting games, such as Street Fighter.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Strategy Video Games such as Starcraft.
- Role-Playing Games such as Final Fantasy.
- See: Fighter Video Game, Combo Move.
References
2017
- (Techopedia, 2017) ⇒ https://www.techopedia.com/definition/27061/button-masher.
- A button masher is a gaming slang term, wherein the players are required to rapidly press different buttons in succession in order to perform special moves. This technique is often used in fighting games. Button masher can also refer to a player who unskillfully mashes buttons while playing video games.
2017
- (Wiktionary, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/button_mashing.
- In video games, button mashing is the act of repeatedly pressing random buttons on a video game controller in hopes of executing attacks ans/or other various motions found in the video game.