There are eight different sports that are played in a similar way (for the athletic sports - shooting and archery test other skills), i.e. with the mashing of the A button and the addition of a direction for contextual actions. If the difficulty curve is rather well balanced, one can regret a certain lack of variety. It should also be noted that single button mashing forces you to use double-tap or vibration strategies. In the arcade, it is easy to practice double- or multi-tap, since the buttons are particularly large. This is much less true for an NES controller, although it is much easier than on recent controllers. This difficulty on a console certainly foreshadows alternate mashing, which requires the use of A and B.