SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab

SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (also known as SpongeBob SquarePants: 40 Winks during its development) is 2006 video game published by THQ and developed by Blitz Games and WayFoward. It is based on the longest running animated Nickelodeon series, SpongeBob SquarePants. The game is about SpongeBob, Patrick, and Plankton exploring their dreams. The game was released on October 2006 for Nintendo GameCube, Playstation 2, Nintendo DS, and GameBoy Advance. A Wii version was released on November of that same year.

The game also has its counterpart, SpongeBob SquarePants: Nighty Nightmare, which was released for Microsoft Windows on August of 2006, two months before Creature from the Krusty Krab was released.

## SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab

### Developer:

Blitz Games (PS2, Wii, GameCube)Wayforwad (DS, GBA)

### Platform(s):

Playstation 2Wii

Nintendo GameCube

Nintendo DS

GameBoy Advance

### Release Date:

October 16th, 2006 (PS2, GameCube, GBA)October 18th, 2006 (DS)

November 13th, 2006 (Wii)

### Media:

physical disc (PS2, Wii, GameCube)cartridge (DS, GBA)

## Gameplay

### **PS2, Wii, GameCube**

There are levels that have 3D platforming action, racing, and flying.

## Characters

### **Playable**

* SpongeBob
* Patrick
* Plankton

## Levels, synopsis, and how to play it.

### Chapter 1: **Diesel Dreaming (Racing, 3D platforming)**

You play as SpongeBob. At the beginning, SpongeBob is sleeping, while sleeping, he tucks out his blanket, revealing that his bed was mysteriously replaced by a hot rod. SpongeBob gets his right hand to the hot rod's handbrake and lifts his body up with it. SpongeBob puts the handbrake down and lets his hot rod crash out of his house.

## Bonus content (cheat codes)

### **Costumes**

* SpongeBob:
	+ Punk (Diesel Dreaming)
	+ skeleton (Alaskan Belly Trouble)
	+ pilot driver (It Came from Bikini Bottom)
	+ brain (Hypnotic Highway)
* Patrick:
	+ Tuxedo (Starfish man to the Rescue)
	+ Safari (Rocket Rodeo)
	+ pirate (Rooftop Rumble)
	+ skeleton (Hypnotic Highway)
* Plankton:
	+ SquarePants (Super Sized Patty)
	+ professor (Super Sized Patty)
	+ robot (Revenge of the Giant Plankton Monster)

### **Paint jobs, effects**

* Diesel Dreaming:
	+ Purple paint job for SpongeBob's hot rod
	+ green flame effects for SpongeBob's hot rod
* Hypnotic Highway

## Original 40 Winks concept

During the game's development, the concept was completely different than how it is today. It had a different name (as a working title) called 40 Winks, which is kinda strange because it is also the name of another obscure video game for the original Playstation.

### **Plot**

SpongeBob's friends are trapped in their sleep, so it's up to SpongeBob to enter their dreams before they continue to sleep for the rest of their lives.

### **Core game features**

* Character focused levels: The game would have featured a diverse of different character themed levels.
* Sponge Wrenching transformations: SpongeBob would have shape-shifted into various things such as a bowling ball, or an umbrella, or even a surf board.

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## Trivia

* This was the first and last of several things:
	+ The first SpongeBob game to be made for the Nintendo Wii.
	+ The last SpongeBob game to be made for Nintendo GameCube.
	+ The first SpongeBob game to be developed by Blitz Games.
* The voice that says the starting countdown in Diesel Dreaming, was taken by another video game developed by Blitz Games known as Fusion Frenzy, released in 2001 for Xbox.
* This game was released in the same year as Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island.
* Creature from the Krusty Krab was released two years after The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was released on Theaters.
* The game was acknowledged by the official SpongeBob Twitter account on May 7th, 2020, along with other SpongeBob console games such as Battle for Bikini Bottom and SpongeBob SquigglePants.