Mr Blobby attract substantial criticism. Mr Blobby first appeared in 1992 in the 'Gotcha' segment of the second series of "Noel's House Party", in which celebrities were caught out in a "Candid Camera" style prank. Mr Blobby was presented to the celebrities as if he were a real and established children's television character, in order to record an episode centred around the guests' profession. In truth, there was no "Mr. Blobby" TV series, and he was created purely for the prank. Mr Blobby would clumsily take part in the activity, knocking over the set, causing mayhem, and saying "blobby blobby blobby." His
Blobby Volley is offered from many freeware download outlets, for instance it was downloaded between 2007 and May 2017 alone from Sourceforge.net over 700,000 times, Chip.de counted over 1 million downloads (at May 2017). Blobby Volley was also included on several video game magazines' cover disks with freeware game compilations, for instance CD-Action 1/2007, GameStar 01/2012, or the Open Source Software CD. The game is also included in several Linux distributions, for instance Ubuntu OS. In 2001 Gamehippo.com's staff awarded 9 of 10 points. A jeuxvideo.com retrospective described Blobby Volley as fun multiplayer game in 2009. Chip.de rated the game ""very good""