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== Video game examples ==
== Anime and Manga ==
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* Konata of ''[[Lucky Star]]'' explains that the way she wins track races is by imagining them as video games... and then button mashing.
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* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': This is Attenborough's only job. Most of the time, the buttons cause something to be fired from the mecha he's sitting in.

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== Film ==
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* Pick a movie that shows a game or two. Any movie. Odds are the actors' fingers will be rattling at the controllers [[Zero Punctuation|like nervous little crabs]].
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** Parodied in ''The 41-year-old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It'', where the gamers in question do this while holding the controllers in various absurd positions.

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== Tabletop Games ==
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* ''Hungry Hungry Hippos'' is the mechanical version of this.

== Video Games ==
=== Action Game ===
=== Action Game ===
* The final boss battle of the indie game ''[[Assassin Blue]]'' ends with this. As do the ''[[Marvel Universe|Marvel]] vs. [[Capcom]]'' games.
* The final boss battle of the indie game ''[[Assassin Blue]]'' ends with this. As do the ''[[Marvel Universe|Marvel]] vs. [[Capcom]]'' games.
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=== Third Person Shooter ===
=== Third Person Shooter ===
* In ''P.N. 03'' for the [[Game Cube]], many of the early suits required you to bash fire as quickly as possible. Eventually you had the ability to upgrade to a suit with autofire and the ability to add autofire to the early suits.
* In ''P.N. 03'' for the [[Game Cube]], many of the early suits required you to bash fire as quickly as possible. Eventually you had the ability to upgrade to a suit with autofire and the ability to add autofire to the early suits.
* ''[[Vanquish]].'' Oh boy, Vanquish. It makes you tap a single button (Or spin the analog) until Sam moves at full speed. And that's the speed of a man with ''rockets'' on his legs and back.
* ''[[Vanquish (video game)|Vanquish]].'' Oh boy, Vanquish. It makes you tap a single button (Or spin the analog) until Sam moves at full speed. And that's the speed of a man with ''rockets'' on his legs and back.
** The effects are awesome, though. For example one of them makes you ''drill a hole through a giant transforming mecha.''
** The effects are awesome, though. For example one of them makes you ''drill a hole through a giant transforming mecha.''


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* ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'' features many powers, but unarmed style fighting gives the player '''plenty''' of options regarding offensive maneuvers. The most button-mashy moves are simply chaining normal attacks as well as the notable Air Combo with a complimentary Spike Driver finisher for it.
* ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'' features many powers, but unarmed style fighting gives the player '''plenty''' of options regarding offensive maneuvers. The most button-mashy moves are simply chaining normal attacks as well as the notable Air Combo with a complimentary Spike Driver finisher for it.


== Non-video-game examples ==
== Web Comics ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
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* Konata of ''[[Lucky Star]]'' explains that the way she wins track races is by imagining them as video games... and then button mashing.
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* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': This is Attenborough's only job. Most of the time, the buttons cause something to be fired from the mecha he's sitting in.


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=== Board Games ===
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* ''Hungry Hungry Hippos'' is the mechanical version of this.


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=== Films ===
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* Pick a movie that shows a game or two. Any movie. Odds are the actors' fingers will be rattling at the controllers [[Zero Punctuation|like nervous little crabs]].
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** Parodied in ''The 41-year-old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It'', where the gamers in question do this while holding the controllers in various absurd positions.


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=== Sports ===
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* In Ice Hockey, some fighters adopt a simple tactic known as "[[wikipedia:Fighting in ice hockey#Tactics|going for it]]" where the player puts their head down (to avoid face blows) and in the words of [[The Other Wiki]], "just throws as many punches as he can, as fast as he can".


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=== Web Comics ===
* This ''[[VG Cats]]'' comic pretty much illustrates button mashing at [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=27 its worst].
* This ''[[VG Cats]]'' comic pretty much illustrates button mashing at [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=27 its worst].
* Largo of ''[[Megatokyo]]'' [http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/631 name-checks and denounces it].
* Largo of ''[[Megatokyo]]'' [http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/631 name-checks and denounces it].


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== Web Original ==

=== Web Original ===
* ''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'': The Nerd has scathingly said that every time you see someone in a movie mashing buttons on a console controller, they're playing ''Winter Games''.
* ''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'': The Nerd has scathingly said that every time you see someone in a movie mashing buttons on a console controller, they're playing ''Winter Games''.
* Strong Bad of ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' tends to use "mash" as a synonym for "push", and is clearly fond of old, button-mashing video games himself.
* Strong Bad of ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' tends to use "mash" as a synonym for "push", and is clearly fond of old, button-mashing video games himself.


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== Western Animation ==

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=== Western Animation ===
* In ''[[Regular Show]]'', this is Rigby's default way of playing arcade games, as seen above. It doesn't really work that well. {{spoiler|Except against the [[The End of the World as We Know It|Destroyer of Worlds]].}}
* In ''[[Regular Show]]'', this is Rigby's default way of playing arcade games, as seen above. It doesn't really work that well. {{spoiler|Except against the [[The End of the World as We Know It|Destroyer of Worlds]].}}


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== Real Life ==

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=== Real Life ===
* [[wikipedia:Takahashi Meijin|Takahashi Meijin]], who became famous in the 80's for being able to pull the light gun's trigger as fast as 16 times per second.
* [[wikipedia:Takahashi Meijin|Takahashi Meijin]], who became famous in the 80's for being able to pull the light gun's trigger as fast as 16 times per second.
* There's a story that the original hazard perception test in the UK Driving Test only checked that the candidate pressed the button when a danger was on screen—so if the candidate constantly pressed the button, he was guaranteed to hit the check window every time it opened.
* There's a story that the original hazard perception test in the UK Driving Test only checked that the candidate pressed the button when a danger was on screen—so if the candidate constantly pressed the button, he was guaranteed to hit the check window every time it opened.

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=== Sports ===
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* In Ice Hockey, some fighters adopt a simple tactic known as "[[wikipedia:Fighting in ice hockey#Tactics|going for it]]" where the player puts their head down (to avoid face blows) and in the words of [[The Other Wiki]], "just throws as many punches as he can, as fast as he can".


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