Gaming
half a press
What does half a press mean?
In the A Button Challenge, an A press has three parts: pushing down, holding, and releasing. If you hold the button down from a previous level, that level only 'spends' part of the press, so it gets tallied as a half. That's how you get counts like 2.5x A presses.
"He clears the star with a half A press by holding A from before Mario even enters the level."
Origin
Super Mario 64 A Button Challenge, coined by pannenkoek2012. Spawned the 'an A press is an A press' meme.
Frequently asked questions
How can an A press be half?
Because a press spans push-hold-release across level boundaries. If you only pay for part of it in a given level, it's counted as a fraction. The famous YouTube comment 'an A press is an A press, you can't say it's only a half' pushed back on exactly this.
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