History VideoGame / SpongeBobSquarePantsBattleForBikiniBottom

* CrateExpectations: Tikis.

* TheGoomba: The first enemies you meet in the game, appropriately named "Fodder". They're not only the most common mook early on, but also the easiest to dispatch.

* AbnormalAmmo: The Tar-Tar robot attacks you by shooting boiling hot tartar sauce, while the robots Chuck and Slick attack with water balloon missiles and oil. The final boss, Robo-[=SpongeBob=], attacks you by literally sending the words KAH-RAH-TAE flying at you.

->'''Spongebob''': Say Bubble Buddy, why do I have to collect all of these [[PlotCoupon golden spatulas?]]
->'''Bubble Buddy''': [[HandWave Because, Spongebob.]]
->'''Spongebob''': [[SureLetsGoWithThat Well, that just about works for me.]]

The gameplay is a staple platformer in the vein of ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''--have Spongebob, Patrick and Sandy travel around several different levels spread throughout Bikini Bottom, battle Plankton's robot cronies while solving obstacles and puzzles while collecting Golden Spatulas to help get you around.

This game is often referred by players to not only be Spongebob's best game, but a great game overall.

* AbnormalAmmo: The Tar-Tar robot attacks you by shooting boiling hot tartar sauce, while the robots Chuck and Slick attack with water balloon missiles and oil. The final boss, Robo-Spongebob, attacks you by literally sending the words KAH-RAH-TAE flying at you.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Robo-Patrick is normally invincible all over, but he has a weak point in his backside, covered by the conspiculously placed "Kick Me" sticky note. Robo-Spongebob takes this up to eleven, as he has numerous glowing weak spots around its body, which can only be destroyed by the Cruise Bubble.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: King Jellyfish, and Robo-Spongebob.

* BiggerOnTheInside: In the second phase of the final battle, Robo-Spongebob had already grown huge to begin with, but the inside of him is big enough to hold '''Cronos''' from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', and ''still'' have room to move around in!
* BrownNote: In the Squidward section of Spongebob's Dream, Mr. Krabs warns Spongebob to cover his ears due to the allegedly dreadful music.
* ColossusClimb: The second phase of the Robo-Spongebob battle has the machine grow to such an immense size, that the entire final battle is fought ''inside'' of it!

* EvilLaugh: Robo-Spongebob gives a particularly creepy, metallic version of Spongebob's laugh whenever Spongebob gets hit.
* FlunkyBoss: Robo-Spongebob isn't a particularly hard boss by itself in its first phase, but every few hits, and Robo-Plankton flies in to bombard you with a volley of hard to dodge lasers, which can knock you down onto the floor of the arena. It's entirely possible to hit him with the cruise bubble to send him off early, but it takes very careful timing, as using it makes you a sitting duck for his attack. This becomes mandatory in the second phase of the battle, as you actually have to hurt him in order to move throughout Robo-Spongebob's body (which in itself is tricky, due to his small hit-area and habit of moving around while you're attacking, not to mention his aforementioned volley of lasers he frequently sends at you).

* GoneHorriblyWrong: From two perspectives--Plankton who succeeded in getting his Duplicatotron to work and thus build up his robot army, but forgot to set the lever to "obey" resulting in them turning against him. From Spongebob's perspective, he believes he and Patrick's wish to have more toy robots to play with was the root of all the the havoc the robots are wreaking.

* GroundPound: The Bubble Stomp for Spongebob, and a belly flop for Patrick. Patrick's is unique in that it sends a shockwave which can kill weaker foes, or stun stronger enemies, allowing him to pick them up and throw them. Both of them can use this to hit buttons, which is Sandy's only weakness.
* HumongousMecha: Robo-Spongebob, the final boss. You go inside of it!
* JackOfAllStats: Spongebob, of course!
* LaserHallway: In the art museum in Rock Bottom, Spongebob has to shut these down in order to get further.

** Monsoon, a irritating flying robot capable of summoning [[ShockAndAwe thunderclouds]] to attack you. The only sure ways to defeat him is to use Spongebob's Bubble Uppercut or Cruise Bubble, Patrick's Throw Fruit, or Sandy's Lasso.

** Sleepy Time: A security robot that is normally asleep, but if you should step into his surrounding light ''without'' sneaking (only possible with Spongebob), it will angrily awake and will quickly use a homing laser to chew off your health in a hurry. You can't use the Bubble Bowl (It will deflect it with the laser), but you can use the Cruise Missile, or throw a Tiki as Patrick in a couple of cases.

* OneManArmy: Spongebob. While Patrick and Sandy are specialization characters, Spongebob amasses an impressive moveset throughout the game--he starts with a bubble wand strike, a double jump, a bubble uppercut and bubble slam, and later on gets the Spongeball move, the Bubble Bowling ball, and finally a ''guided cruise missile bubble''. Patrick is only needed to throw stuff, and Sandy is needed to cross large gaps.
* OneWingedAngel: After the first phase of the robo-Spongebob battle, it sprouts anchor arms and expands to a ludicrously large size. Subverted, in that the second phase has you destroy it from the inside.

* PunnyName: One of the first mooks you meet in the game is "Ham-mer", a robot that uses a giant ham to whack you with. Lampshaded by Spongebob. Patrick, however, dosen't get it.

-->'''Spongebob''': ''"Water, rising, must-get-to-higher-GROUND!"''
* OffWithHisHead: Played with during the Robo-Sandy boss fight. The first part is slamming on its body so that its head launches into the scoreboard, thus electrocuting it. The second phase involves Patrick knocking the head off, and then picking it up and throwing it into the fallen scoreboard. By the third phase, the robot [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy wises up]] and grabs the head when its knocked off, but this allows Spongebob to use his bubble-uppercut to strike it from below.
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''The Spongebob Squarepants Movie Game'' and ''Creature From the Krusty Krab'' reuse the game engine from ''Battle for Bikini Bottom''; while the movie game keeps the collect-a-thon nature intact (albiet without the open world gameplay) ''Creature'' largely abandons the collect-a-thon approach in favor of more linear platforming, as well as GameplayRoulette.

** BandLand: The Squidward section of Spongebob's Dream.

** DreamLand: Spongebob's Dream level.

** HubLevel: Bikini Bottom, containing Spongebob's neighborhood, Sandy's treedome, Shady Shoals retirement home and the police station, the Krusty Krab and Chum Bucket, and the Bikini Bottom Cinema.

** LevelAte: The Krusty Krab section of "Spongebob's Dream".
** LevelsTakeFlight: The Sandy Cheeks section of Spongebob's Dream.

** NoobCave: Spongebob's House acts as the tutorial level for the game.

** SkateHeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth: The Krusty Krab section of Spongebob's Dream.

** WhiteVoidRoom: Or Black Void Room, in the case of the Patrick section of Spongebob's Dream.

* TheMario: Spongebob, of course!

* BiggerOnTheInside: In the second phase of the final battle, Robo-Spongebob had already grown huge to begin with, but the inside of him is big enough to hold '''Cronos''' from ''GodOfWar'', and ''still'' have room to move around in!

->'''Spongebob''': ''"Say Bubble Buddy, why do I have to collect all of these [[PlotCoupon golden spatulas?]]"''
->'''Bubble Buddy''': ''"Because, Spongebob."''
->'''Spongebob''': ''"[[SureLetsGoWithThat Well, that just about works for me.]]"''

''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}: Battle for Bikini Bottom'' is a {{licensed game}} produced by [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nick]] Games and HeavyIronStudios in 2003 for the {{PS2}}, GameCube, {{Xbox}}, PC and GameBoyAdvance.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The game allows you to harmlessly) knock back or irritate NPC characters you meet. One instance of this is a ''mandatory'' goal in order to get a spatula--the goal in question is "[[ButtMonkey Annoy Squidward]]". You annoy him by destroying his artwork.

* FlunkyBoss: Robo-Spongebob isn't a particularly hard boss by itself in its first phase, but every few hits, and Robo-Plankton flies in to bombard you with a volley of hard to dodge lasers, which can knock you down onto the floor of the arena. It's entirely possible to hit him with the cruise bubble to send him off early, but it takes very careful timing, as using it makes you a sitting duck for his attack. This becomes mandatory in the second phase of the battle, as you actually have to hurt him in order to move throughout Robo-Spongebob's body (which in itself is tricky, due to his small hit-area, not to mention his aforementioned volley of lasers he frequently sends at you.

-->'''Spongebob''': ''"Water, rising, must-get-too-higher-GROUND!"''

* ArrowCam: When you use the Bubble Missile.

** [[MookMaker Arf]] & Arf-Dawg: Another irritating tough mook, Arf is a cowboy robot that attacks from a long distance, sending exploding dog-robots at you. The only safe way to attack him is with the Bubble Bowl, as his dawgs will mow your health down well before you can reach him, and he takes more than one hit to take down, and he will swing his doghouse at you if you get too close. Or use the Cruise Bubble to kill it in one hit.

** [[MeaningfulName Chuck]], another flying robot that is capable of throwing long range, surprisingly accurate missiles are you. [[GoddamnedBats The missiles also have a shockwave that hurts you and sends you flying, and they're usually placed at platforms by bottomless pits.]]

** G-Love, a UFO-like robot that uses a spinning attack with its multiple hands. You have to either GroundPound it, or use Sandy's lasso to kill it.

* BiggerOnTheInside: In the second phase of the final battle, Robo-Spongebob had already grown huge to begin with, but the inside of him is big enough to hold one of the titan bosses from ''GodOfWar'', and ''still'' have room to move around in!

->'''Spongebob''': ''"Well, that just about works for me."''

* SuperDrowningSkills: No one can't swim, so touching or landing in goo (the games answer to "water") will send them flying back to land, or drown them on the spot. Patrick can use 'Freezy Fruits' to freeze goo to cross it.

* AndIMustScream: In the Mermalair, the boss of that level is "Prawn", an old archfoe of Mermaidman who was kept frozen in the lair's prison for years until he was accidentally thawed out.

* AwesomeYetPractical: The "Cruise Bubble" move you get late in the game--it deals devastating long range damage, and is needed to hit out of reach objects.
* AwesomeYetImpractical: The Spongeball move; sure it helps you get around faster than usual, but you can't attack in it, and one hit immediately cancels the move.

* EliteMook: Some of the oil slick throwing robots from late in the game.

* GroundPound: The Bubble Stomp for Spongebob, and a belly flop for Patrick. Patrick's is unique in that it sends a shockwave which can kill weaker foes, or stun stronger enemies, allowing him to pick them up and throw them.
* HumongousMecha: Robo-Spongebob, the final boss.

** G-Love, a UFO-like robot that uses a spinning attack with its multiple hands.
** Monsoon, a irritating flying robot capable of summoning [[ShockAndAwe thunderclouds]] to attack you. The only sure ways to defeat him is to use Spongebob's Bubble Uppercut or Sandy's Lasso.
** [[MeaningfulName Chuck]], another flying robot that is capable of throwing long range, surprisingly accurate missiles are you.

** Sleepy Time: A security robot that is normally asleep, but if you should step into his surrounding light ''without'' sneaking (only possible with Spongebob), it will angrily awake and will quickly use a homing laser to chew off your health in a hurry.

** [[MookMaker Arf]] & Arf-Dawg: Another irritating tough mook, Arf is a cowboy robot that attacks from a long distance, sending exploding dog-robots at you. The only safe way to attack him is with the Bubble Bowl, as his dawgs will mow your health down well before you can reach him, and he takes more than one hit to take down, and he will swing his doghouse at you if you get too close.

** Bzzt-Bot, a group of small, one-eyed robots that float around and use pseudo-psychic beam attacks to hurt you. Like Fodder and Bomb-Bot, they can easily be dispatched.
* MightyGlacier: Patrick Star.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The game was a success for a reason--besides its polished presentation, faithfulness to the source material in not only art and music, but humor and personality as well, the gameplay is quite fun, perfect for kids and with enough substance to keep veterans enticed.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Planton, when he finally gets back to the Chum Bucket, assumes putting a "obey" sign over "not obey" will cause the robots to obey him. Subverted in that the robots ''are'' obeying--just not the real Plankton.
* OneManArmy: Spongebob. While Patrick and Sandy are specialization characters, Spongebob amasses an impressive moveset throughout the game--he starts with a bubble wand strike, a double jump, a bubble uppercut and bubble slam, and later on gets the Spongeball move, the Bubble Bowling ball, and finally a ''guided cruise missile bubble''.

* OffWithHisHead: Played with during the Robo-Sandy boss fight. The first part is slamming on its body so that its head launches into the scoreboard, thus electrocuting it. The second phase involves Patrick knocking the head off, and then picking it up and throwing it into the scoreboard. By the third phase, the robot [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy wises up]] and grabs the head when its knocked off, but this allows Spongebob to use his bubble-uppercut to strike it from below.

* SquishyWizard: [=SpongeBob=].
* SuperDrowningSkills: Spongebob and Patrick can't swim, so touching or landing in goo (the games answer to "water") will send them flying back to land, or drown them on the spot.
* SuperStrength: Patrick displays this more than the other characters, as he is the only character who can lift up "Throw Fruit". His throwing arm is quite impressive, however.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The game allows you to harmlessly) knock back or irritate NPC characters you meet. One instance of this is a ''mandatory'' goal in order to get a spatula--the goal in question is "[[ButtMonkey Annoy Squidward]]".
* VideoGameFlight: Sandy can use her lasso as a helicopter, allowing her to glide a fairly long distance.

** BossOnlyLevel: The Poseidome, The Industrial Park and the Chum Bucket.

''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom'' is a {{licensed game}} produced by [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nick]] Games and HeavyIronStudios in 2003 for the {{PS2}}, GameCube, {{Xbox}}, PC and GameBoyAdvance.

''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom'' is a {{licensed game}} produced by [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nick]] Games and Heavy Iron Studios in 2003 for the {{PS2}}, GameCube, {{Xbox}}, PC and GameBoyAdvance.

''[=SpongeBob SquarePants=]: Battle for Bikini Bottom'' is a licensed game produced by Nick Games and Heavy Iron Studios in 2003 for the {{PS2}}, GameCube, {{Xbox}}, PC and GameBoyAdvance.

The gameplay is a staple platformer in the vein of SuperMario64--have Spongebob, Patrick and Sandy travel around several different levels spread throughout Bikini Bottom, battle Plankton's robot cronies while solving obstacles and puzzles while collecting Golden Spatulas to help get you around.

''SpongeBob SquarePants=]: Battle for Bikini Bottom'' is a licensed game produced by Nick Games and Heavy Iron Studios in 2003 for the {{PS2}}, GameCube, {{Xbox}}, PC and GameBoyAdvance.