So I guess I'm the only one who actually DISLIKES this comeback *hides under the table*
It's just that I always saw those minigames as unchallenging ( you always could break the car / bricks / whatever), time-consuming (once, it's okay, but replaying the game on arcade mode to brush-up your skills 246 times makes those a real time-waster) and just plain silly. I mean, those bonus stages where kind of a bad idea all the games would have back in the 80's, it's not like if the developers really had a new idea, they just followed the trend. They didn't even try to fit it in the game story ("now our challeger will have to break a car, or else...")
Sorry to be such a spoiler...