1993 in British music BBC One show "Noel's House Party", with "Mr. Blobby" (the first ever eponymously titled number 1 single). In the final week before Christmas, he was knocked off by Take That's "Babe", making Mr. Blobby the first one-week #1 since U2's "The Fly" in November 1991, and making Take That the first act to have three singles in a row all enter at #1. However, the following week (Christmas week) saw Mr. Blobby climb back up to the top, the first time this had happened since January 1969, and officially become this year's Christmas number 1. Take That's "Babe" became the
Blobby Volley default volleyball rules. There is improved network support with Dedicated servers, to reduce lag. In November 2013 a commercial Android version was released, in 2014 a version for iOS. In 2016 a commercial version for Windows mobile followed. Since 2016 there is also a version of Blobby Volley 2 available for browsers which utilizes HTML5 for rendering. The "Blobby Volley" series became quite popular freeware game, either as single player casual game and also as competitive tournament game on LAN parties, for instance the GameCon. There is an online Sports league, running since several years organized by the community. It