Theyd better not make Super Time Trotters.

" @damnboyadvance said:

" BUTTON! "

MASHING. "

" BUTTON! "

BUTTON!

New Button Mashing is okay. Not as good as the Rich Gallup version, but it's still perfectly acceptable.

Ryan MacDonald is still there? He's pretty much the only guy I recognize. 

" Do you really think that Ryan invented 'zambie?'"

Can someone upload older button mashing episodes or post them in a thread?  When I look it up on youtube I see recent reviews/episodes of super button mashing or the intro.

Do you really think that Ryan invented 'zambie?' :/


Anyway, yeah, disappointing, but I'll just continue to ignore it just like everything else GameSpot does these days instead of raging at something for reasons that don't even hold water.

eww but then again I don't really go to gamespot that much anymore.

that intro was awesome, seems like a neat concept might looks up old videos later

I think they should let the dude finish asking the question before being allowed to buzz in.

Why do people still go to gamestop if they hate everything they do?

I only watched it for Rich, the show wasn't really that good to start with.

awww well that is to bad to hear that. i don't go to gamespot anymore, i only come here. i'll go there every once in a while to laugh at the people at system wars.

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After the abominable intro video Ryan Mac Donald says, “Welcome to yet another… well, I guess our debut episode of Super Button Mashing.”  Was that supposed to be clever or cute?  I can’t tell.

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Well it'll never be this awesome again

  

You sound like you really wanted to hate it from the very outset. 

While I agree its not as good as the original Button Mashing I think your being a little harsh.

" Maybe I’m blowing this way out of proportion,"

Button Mashing was like a video game game show where the editors and other people of GameSpot would compete against each other. The competitions were generally pretty silly. This was, of course, back in the golden years of Game Spot...

What is button mashing?

 OK, it’s now called Super Button Mashing, and I feel totally insulted.  Yes, GameSpot brought back their game show last week, and  it’s awful to say the least.

Let’s start with the intro to Button Mashing, err Super Button Mashing.  It’s Chris Watters asking Sophia Tong what she knew about Button Mashing.  Sophia Tong claims she is clueless about Button Mashing.  She has been an editor at GameSpot since 2008, and has no clue eh?  Maybe I’m blowing this way out of proportion, but I always look into what a company has done before I take a job there.  However, one year after Gerstmann Gate she has no idea… kind of hard to swallow.

The introduction video to Super Button Mashing set the tone for me.  I’m so used to the awesome intro with Jeff Gerstmann, Alex Navarro, and Richard Gallup (in a pink pimp suit).  It was clever, fun and the song was great.  Now it’s just a bunch of 8-bit style pictures, and clips from NES games with a computer generated voice announcing “mashing buttons” and occasionally “Button,” and followed by the original intro song’s “Mashing.”  It’s great if you love everything being narrated by Stephen Hawking, but damn, they’ve already destroyed the legacy for me.

After the abominable intro video Ryan Mac Donald says, “Welcome to yet another… well, I guess our debut episode of Super Button Mashing.”  Was that supposed to be clever or cute?  I can’t tell.

So, now the game has changed, and now they are using a Jeopardy style system for points and different categories.  One of those categories is dedicated to Jaffe, their special guest.  Yep, David Jaffe is on their “premier” episode.  The GameSpot editors had their lips attached firmly to Jaffe’s scrotum.

Shaun McInnis loosens his lips just enough to pronounce “Zombie” stylized way of Ryan Davis’s “Zambie.”

At this point, I stopped watching.  This was a concept that should have been aborted from conception.