By pressing the reset button the coach accepted the offer to return, if a coach did not press the reset button that meant the coach declined the offer.
Simply put, use of a reset button device returns all characters and situations to the "status quo" they held before a major change of some sort was introduced.
This ongoing cycle acted as a reset button, temporarily preventing land vertebrates from evolving the diversity their pre-extinction ancestors had enjoyed.
Cold-booting refers to when power is cycled off and then on without letting the operating system shut down cleanly, or, if available, pressing the reset button.
Most of them incorporate an external soft reset button (not available on any original cart), so you can reset the game without powering off the system.
Pressing the reset button would be preferable to the power button, which could potentially leave a device in the middle of some operation and subject to defect.