noun Gaming Slang

A Button Challenge

· noun · gaming

Beating SM64 while pressing the jump button as few times as possible.

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Definitions

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A self-imposed SM64 challenge to grab every star using the absolute minimum number of A (jump) presses, often zero. It spawned years of insane research into the game's physics and parallel universes.

“Getting that star in the A Button Challenge needed zero presses, just a precise BLJ setup.”
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The challenge that turned SM64 into a maths problem. The ABC is why anyone knows what a half A press is.

“Watch for Rolling Rocks famously costs 0.5 A presses in the ABC.”
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A Button Challenge In A Sentence

Getting that star in the A Button Challenge needed zero presses, just a precise BLJ setup.
Watch for Rolling Rocks famously costs 0.5 A presses in the ABC.

Origin & Usage

Super Mario 64. Self-imposed challenge popularised by pannenkoek2012; abbreviated ABC.

People Also Ask

Who started the A Button Challenge?

It predates him, but pannenkoek2012's deep-dive videos made it famous and pushed the counts to their theoretical minimum.

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