You remember how much you enjoyed eventually destroying your controller from repeated bashing of the buttons

oh man... like half the games on the original Nintendo were like this and yeah, we destroyed some buttons that is for sure. I recall an olympics game that if you had the "turbo tap" I think it was called that you would break every world record in every sport. The game was basically an exercise in thumb speed. How we all didn't end up with some level of carpel-tunnel is beyond me.