Talk:Boss

A Term Popularized...
I'm gonna have to agree with the anon though that "boss" was not new to MMOs. I've been playing video games since the early nineties, and the strongest villains were always called "boss" villains. I'm more tempted to believe it's some form of translation mishap between Japanese/English language games. The talk page on Wikipedia shows some discussion as to when it came into modern usage, and while the exact source doesn't appear to have been pin-pointed, the term has been around since the 80s, which is long before MMOs came into being. (What with, y'know, the internet not being readily available at that time.) - Ancestralmask 17:13, December 2, 2009 (UTC)