SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a video game published by the former THQ and developed by Heavy Iron Studios, Vicarious Visions, and Windows. It is based on the longest running animated Nickelodeon original series, SpongeBob SquarePants. The game is about SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy saving Bikini Bottom from Plankton's evil army of robots. It was released in 2003 for Playstation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, GameBoy Advance, and Windows.

On June 5th, 2019, an official remake of the game was announced, it is going to named SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle fro Bikini Bottom- Rehydrated, going to published by THQNordic and developed by Purple Lamp Studios. Set to be released sometime in 2020 for Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Xbox One, and Windows.

## SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom

### Developer:

Heavy Iron Studios (PS2, GameCube, Xbox)Vicarious Visions (GameBoy Advance)

AWE Games (Windows)

### Platform(s):

Playstation 2Nintendo GameCube

Xbox

GameBoy Advance

Microsoft Windows

### Series:

SpongeBob SquarePants (TV series by Stephen Hillenburg

### Media:

Physical disc (PS2, GameCube, Xbox, Windows)cartridge (GameBoy Advance)

## Playable Characters

* SpongeBob SquarePants
* Patrick Star
* Sandy Cheeks

Note: SpongeBob is the only one who can take the Bikini Bottom taxi.

## Moveset

all characters have the ability to jump by pressing the jump button.

### **SpongeBob**

* Bubble Spin
* Bubble Bash
* Bubble Bounce
* Bubble Bowl
* Cruise Bubble
* SpongeBall

### **Patrick**

* Belly Attack
* Throw
* Body Slam

### **Sandy**

* Karate Chop
* Lasso
* Glide
* Texas Trailer Hitches.

## Robots (enemies)

1. Fodders- They attack the player with their electric wands.
2. Ham-Mers- They attack the player with their hammers made of hams.
3. Tar-Tars- Robots that carry a big jar of tartar sauce and attack the player with three shots of tartar sauce.
4. Chomp-Bots- Robots that attack the player by chomping and throwing a stinky breath gas.
5. Chucks- They attack the player by throwing water missiles at them.
6. Monsoons- Robots that hover in the air and attacks the player with a remote that creates stormy clouds.
7. Bomb Bots- Small ball robots.
8. Sleepy Times- Robots that get awaken by the player when they get near them and attacks the player itself with laser vision.
9. Arfs- Cowboy robots that attack the player with their Arf Dawgs from their doghouses.
10. BZZT-bots- Robots that zap the player with gamma ray lasers.
11. Tubelets- A trio of small robots that attack the players with their flame jets.
12. Slicks- A robot that attacks the player by shooting globs of oil at the player.
13. Duplicatotron 1000- Machines that spawn robots. They player must destroy it by using attack it. But they must get away from it because its explosion damages the player itself.

## Items

1. Shiny objects- The games currencies, they are shaped as sea flowers. The player can carry up to 99,999 of them.
2. Underwear- Health point.
3. Golden spatulas- Rewards to unlock new games. Completely similar to the power stars from Nintendo's Super Mario 64.

## Controls (PS2)

### **SpongeBob**

* X- Jump
* X, X- double jump
* Square- BubbleSpin

* Triangle- Bubble Bash
* X, O- Bubble Bounce
* Hold O, release- Bubble Bowl
* L1- Cruise Bubble

### **Patrick**

* X- Jump
* X, X- double jump
* Square- Belly push
* X, O- Body Slam
* O- Pick up object
* Square- Throw object

### **Sandy**

* X- Jump
* X, X- Double Jump
* Square- Karate Chop
* X, X, hold X- Lasso hover
* O in mid air- Swing on Texas hook

## Controls (Gamecube)

### **SpongeBob**

* A- Jump
* A, A- double jump
* B- Bubblespin
* Y- Bubble Bash

## Trivia

* A demo of the game's PC version was featured as a bonus feature in the SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric DVD.
* In Goo Lagoon, there is a sand version of an Atari 2600 controller.
* Battle for Bikini Bottom was acknowledged outside of THQ.
	+ It was first acknowledged on the Trivia pop up of The Complete Third Season DVD.
	+ On May 7th, 2020, the official SpongeBob Twitter account acknowledged the game on a list of SpongeBob video games, along with others like The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Game, and Nicktoons Unite!
* In this game, Mr.Krabs was voiced by Joe Whyte instead of Clancy Brown.