a "play" button to press doesn't hint at a game at all, it hints at a movie. you press "play" to play a movie, you press "Start" to start a game. You may argue that those terms can be easily reversed, which may at first glance be a sound argument, but deeper investigation would reveal that you do not play many video games, or have possibly never owned a VCR. This isn't an argument of grammar, this is an argument of tradition, and traditionally we say: ↑↑↓↓←→ ←→ A B SELECT START

just saying, not hating >_>