Button masher recommendations (such as Track & Field, Athlete Kings)

brianon

My daughter and myself enjoy playing Track & Field (arcade & PS1), Athlete Kings (Saturn) to name a few. Was just wondering what other simple (enough) button mashers are out there ?

Mostly interested in sports rather than party games although we do play Wii Party U and she likes Mario Party on the Wii and Gamecube. Even better would be games that support more than 2 player.

Picked up a copy of London 2012 for PS3 which I should have soon.

Recommend a game from any platform from NES up to PC

The Last Bandit

Winter Heat & Decathlete on Sega STV are decent button mashers.

o1s1n

California Games has some button mashing if I remember correctly. NES version is great fun.

brianon

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Winter Heat & Decathlete on Sega STV are decent button mashers.

Isn't Decathlete the US version of Athlete Kings ?

I have Winter Heat also. Couldn't remember it's name earlier

CiDeRmAn

Daley Thompsons Decathlon and its sequels on the C64 and Speccy.
Combat School on the C64
Theres Track & Field 2 as well, on the PS.

brianon

Thanks guys. fyi...my daughter is 7 so graphics are reasonably important

CiDeRmAn

Perhaps I should edit my post into non existence then!

Steve X2

In my mind button mashers and joystick wigglers will always be 8bit games. Many a joystick broke in my youth playing games that required me to do some extreme stick wiggling

Inquitus

Olympic Gold on the Megadrive used to involve some titanic battles between me and my brother when we were yoots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Gold

Track and Field the Arcade version was clearly one of the best button mashers ever made!

brianon

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Theres Track & Field 2 as well, on the PS.

Oh. Didn't know that existed.

I'll check out some of the older games for C64 and Speccy and see if she likes any of those.

Thanks again.

brianon

brianon wrote: »

Oh. Didn't know that existed.

I'll check out some of the older games for C64 and Speccy and see if she likes any of those.

Thanks again.

Ok. So I picked up a copy of a button masher but its hardly retro. London 2012 on PS3. Actually great fun in multiplayer

Will pick up Beijing 2008 also. There are a few PS2 Olympic titles to look into also.

L1m1tless

+1 for Olympic Gold

CiDeRmAn

I'm kinda trying to put together a decent Mario collection, with most of his games he has been in.
The ones I'm missing are the Olympic releases for the Wii, both summer and winter, I think there are four titles so far, must pick them up.
Mario Sports Mix is a nice little sports compilation, more than button bashers though, but nothing too technical, its on the Wii.

safetyboy

Pacland

TechnoFreek

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Combat School on the C64

Now theres a tough game

Hercule

Athens 2004 was a hoot - some of the modes were overly complex tho - not 7 year old friendly.

Other then that - The Mario Party series for N64/GC/Wii is your best bet - or if you can find it Bishi Bashi Special on PS1
Sonic and Mario @ Olympics games are ok too.

CiDeRmAn

Hercule wrote: »

Athens 2004 was a hoot - some of the modes were overly complex tho - not 7 year old friendly.

Other then that - The Mario Party series for N64/GC/Wii is your best bet - or if you can find it Bishi Bashi Special on PS1
Sonic and Mario @ Olympics games are ok too.

If its a great game for kids I couldn't recommend Kirbys Adventure highly enough, simple to play but looks amazing. Its on the Wii but quite hard to find, well worth it when you do.

o1s1n

Anyone mention the 'Dr Bob version'?

It involves playing these games in MAME with a dance mat - sounds like good exercise :pac: