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Tiny dude, big panic—you’re threading pixel-perfect jumps between speeding obstacles while the screen tries to murder you. Feels fair when you eat dirt, which you will, a lot.
Masao is a 1992 arcade game from an unknown developer, a product of that era where cabinets were filled with quick, punishing titles designed to eat quarters. It doesn't have the name recognition of its contemporaries, but it has a specific, frantic energy that makes it memorable for those who stumbled upon it.
You control a small character, simply trying to survive a series of single-screen obstacle courses. The main objective is to reach the exit on each screen, a task complicated by a constant onslaught of moving hazards, from bouncing balls to crushing pillars. The core mechanics are evasion and timing; you have no attack, so your only tools are a jump and a run, used to dodge everything. The pacing is relentless, the difficulty steep, demanding perfect spatial awareness and quick reflexes. It feels like a tense, high-speed puzzle where every mistake is immediately punished.
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