The Official Origin of the term "blobber"

[Disciple]

Fiddling around with the forum search I came across what may be the first use of the term "blob" to refer to dungeon crawlers in which the party moves and fights as one:

Wiz 7 is one of those "Your party is a big blob with multiple arms" style combats though. They really give me the shits, I like being able to individually move characters, so you can flank, put the fighters in place to intercept stuff going for the wizards etc.

And I totally second both Icewind Dale 2 (IWD 2) and Temple of Elemental Evil (ToEE) as very good Fantasy Tactical combat simulators. Both should still be available in software stores with a little bit of looking, for very cheap prices. In Australia I have seen IWD2 bundled with IWD + all the IWD expansions for not very much

This post [Mar 26, 2005] predates Shagnak's and it was probably his source of inspiration for his later posts (notice he posted earlier in that thread). Shagnak fully embraced the term and used it several times from then on: #1 - #2 - #3 - #4 - #5. The user Zomg (who would eventually coin the "blobber" label) was the first one to question the meaning of "blob game" in early 2006—his query was never answered, by the way . It seems the term gained some traction later that year, and several other posters started using it: Jasede, Ladonna, aweigh... By the end of 2007 the Codex had its first thread featuring the term "blob" in the title: The Walking Blob.

 

[Ladonna]

It even spawned BLOBERT whats not to love?

 

[octavius]

I'm not the avant garder blobberer I thought I was; I only started using the term in 2012.
Google didn't find any mention of "blobber" on any pages written before Aug 7, 2005 (a rather arbitrary date).

And not a single hit from groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg?