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QWOP and Pole Riders developer Bennett Foddy is a master of the absurd. After taking the internet by storm with his goofy browser game about the world's most poorly coordinated athlete, he followed it up with a physics game about clumsy pole vaulters and a 16-player real-time version of chess. Yet it's Foddy's most recent experiment, Multibowl!, made with the help of his colleague AP Thomson, that takes the cake. A medley of over 230 commercial games from the early 80s to mid 90s, Multibowl! is like a mix of WarioWare with a retro game convention. Each title is set to a 30-second timer with one point assigned to whoever completes the goal first. Sometimes this is slaying your opponent in the original Mario Bros., other times it's scoring a goal in Sensible Soccer, and sometimes it's acquiring the highest score in Bubble Bobble. The first player to 10 points wins.
Each game is introduced with a title screen stating the name of the game, its publisher, the year it was released, and your objective ("KO your opponent", for example). In this way it actually serves as a sample platter of arcade classics, introducing folks to many mysteries of gaming's yesteryear they may otherwise have missed out on.
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