I donât use âbutton masherâ as a cheap label for an antiquated genre. I use it in the most literal sense, because this is an iPhone port of Hudsonâs famous Shooting Watches.
History lesson: Hudson talisman Takahashi Meijin (aka Master Higgins) got kinda famous in the 80âs for being able to press a button 16 times a second. Which is pretty awesome. Anyway, to cash in on this, in 1987 Hudson released something called the âShooting Watchâ, which let you try and match/beat Meijinâs score by calculating how quickly you could press its buttons.
Itâs this Shooting Watch thatâs been ported to the iPhone (and is going for $0.99). Itâs not going to work anywhere near as well as the real deal â no way the iPhoneâs screen can register that kind of frenzied button mashing â but that doesnât matter. Itâs a crazy port of a crazy game-related thing invented by a crazy man, and fully-functional or not, that should bring joy to your life, if only for a day.
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