button masher
n.— «“Button masher” is often a derogatory term for fighting games. This game, however, is a button masher with smarts, and prides itself in being so.» —“God Hand: We return to the Wild West for a little more beat-em-up fun.” by Kareem Harper UGO Inside Games Oct. 3, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
How do you transform ancient Chinese script for use in the modern age? English uses a keyboard with just 26 letters, but the first Chinese typewriter looked like a small table under a huge disk with more than 4,000 characters. A new book chronicles...
Chase from Jacksonville, Florida, grew up in Sacramento, California, where kids played Rochambeau instead of rock, paper, scissors. Why the difference in names? Nobody knows. Folklorists call this a choosing game, and while the hand-game itself...