NOTE: parody coming up (or maybe satirical...I'm not sure). Please don't take it too seriously.
Button mashing isn't just a play style...it's a way of life! More importantly: it's MY way of life!!!
Button mashing in Tatsunoko vs Capcom? HAH! I button mashed my way through SSBB as well! (well...the subspace emissionary, that is)
In wii sports, you can just wiimote-mash when playing tennis.
First person shooters like the conduit take mashing to a whole new level: I can both spam all firepower I have while frantically weaving the wiimote all over the place.
The balance games in wii fit (plus)? Bah! Just mash your weight around and you'll get there. Or at least somewhere (well...except that zazen exercise: that'll get you nowhere).
I finished super paper Mario (and a few other RPG's) buttonmashing my way through all the dialog.
In guitar hero, I guitar mash my way through a song.
And so on, and so on...thanks to nintendo's innovation with movement controllers, my arthritis doesn't hurt so much anymore (though it's rather bad for my furniture...and my cat's going crazy).
Of course, you'll always have pansies who look down on my kind, and claim that games should require "skill", "tactics", "insight" and all that stuff. To which I say: bollocks. I don't want any of that...to me, a game is exactly that: a GAME. Not some deep psychological test or skill measurement device, but something that is actually FUN.
Yeah, yeah...I know the arguments: (insert uppity tone of voice)
"But Wever...if you would spent some time learning and practicing these combo's, you'll get all the fun you can handle!"
WRONG! To me, "fun" is sharing a beer with friends and having a laugh over who won a silly game of wario ware: smooth moves. Not having some "1337" dude "pwning" everyone else because he can pull off a dozen hadoukens in a second. I'd rather be a scrub than having to actually LEARN anything from a game (I do enough of that at school).