SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a SpongeBob SquarePants video game that was released on October 29, 2003 in North America, November 28 in Europe, and December 11 in Australia. The game features an original storyline in which the player defends Bikini Bottom from a horde of robots created by Plankton. Three distinct versions of the game exist, with unique gameplay styles and differences in certain plot details: Heavy Iron Studios developed a 3D platformer for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Xbox, Vicarious Visions developed a 2D platformer for the Game Boy Advance, and AWE Games developed a point-and-click adventure game for PC.
Battle for Bikini Bottom received mixed or average reviews upon release, but it was a commercial success. The console version of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie video game, released one year after this game, shares the same developer, game engine, and various graphics from Battle for Bikini Bottom, and even features robot from this game in a dumpster as an Easter egg, leading fans to consider the Movie game as the unofficial spiritual successor. An official successor to this game called The Cosmic Shake was released 19 years later in 2023.
Cast[]
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SpongeBob SquarePants
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Tom Kenny | |
 
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Gary
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King Jellyfish
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SpongeBot SteelPants
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| French Narrator | |||
  
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Patrick Star
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Bill Fagerbakke | |
 
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Robo-Patrick
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Sandy Cheeks
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Carolyn Lawrence | |
 
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Mermalair Computer
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Squidward Tentacles
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Rodger Bumpass | |
  
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Eugene Krabs
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Joe Whyte | |
  
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Mermaid Man
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| Painty the Pirate | Joe Whyte (original) | ||
| Patrick Pinney (Rehydrated, archival recordings, uncredited) | |||
  
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Sheldon J. Plankton
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Doug Lawrence | |
 
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Fish Announcer
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Larry the Lobster
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Robo-Plankton
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Prawn
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Mrs. Puff
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Mary Jo Catlett | |
  
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Barnacle Boy
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Tim Conway | |
 
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Flying Dutchman
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Brian Doyle-Murray | |
 
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King Neptune
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John O'Hurley | |
 
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Bubble Buddy
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Brad Abrell | |
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Plankton's robot
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Adult Male #1 (TruVoice) (PC version) | |
| Technical staff | |||
Sound design
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Hacienda Post | ||
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Sound supervision
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Timothy J. Borquez | ||
| Mark Howlett | |||
Sound designers/editors
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Jeff Hutchins | ||
| Tom Syslo | |||
| Bobby Crew | |||
| Matt Brown | |||
| Charlie King | |||
Re-recording mixers
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Eric Freeman | ||
| Timothy J. Borquez | |||
Recording engineers
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Dan Cubert | ||
| Morgan Gerhard | |||
Sound assistant
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Tony Orozco | ||
Music design
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Sabre Music | ||
Music design and supervision
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Timothy J. Borquez | ||
Composers
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Jimmy Levine | ||
| Bobby Crew | |||
| Alex Wilkinson | |||
| Gabriel Schönangerer (Rehydrated; also Audio Designer) | |||
Director of localization
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Susanne Dieck | ||
Localization engineer
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Bernd Kurtz | ||
Localization manager (Rehydrated)
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Gennaro Giani | ||
International versions[]
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom[]
| Language | Title | |
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French | Bob l'éponge : Bataille pour Bikini Bottom |
 
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German | SpongeBob Schwammkopf: Schlacht um Bikini Bottom |
PC CD-ROM[]
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German | SpongeBob Schwammkopf: Schlacht um Bikini Bottom |
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Hungarian | SpongyaBob Kockanadrág: Harc Bikinifenékért |
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Russian | Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны: Битва за лагуну Бикини[1] |
Title translations[]
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Korean | 네모 네모 스펀지 송 비키네너의 전쟁 |
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated[]
An enhanced remaster of the game, titled "SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated", was announced on June 5, 2019, and later released on June 23, 2020 worldwide for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. It would also see a worldwide release for Google's now-defunct Stadia platform on December 8, 2020, for iOS and Android worldwide on January 21, 2021, and for Amazon's Luna platform in the United States on September 9, 2021. The port was developed in Austria by Purple Lamp Studios and published by THQ Nordic. The mobile version was developed and published by HandyGames, a subsidiary of THQ Nordic based in Germany.
A spiritual sequel, titled "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake", was released worldwide on January 31, 2023.
Localized versions[]
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Chinese (Simplified) | 海绵宝宝：比奇堡的冒险 - 重新水合 |
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Hindi | SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated |
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Korean | 네모바지 스폰지밥: 비키니 시티의 전쟁 리하이드레이티드 |
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Malay | SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated |
 
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Persian | SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bottom City – Rehydrated[2] |
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Portuguese | Bob Esponja Calça Quadrada: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated |
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Russian | Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны: Битва за Бикини Боттом - Регидратация |
Title translations[]
Notes[]
- Only the PlayStation 2 release of the original game received dubs in French and German, which are only included in the retail versions released in their own respective regions. They are not selectable in its original English release.
- The original game’s French and German dubs were completely redone from the ground up for SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated.
- The theme song’s cover version heard in the original game was previously used in Employee of the Month for Windows and Revenge of the Flying Dutchman for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2, both released a year prior, in 2002.
- The original game’s French release retains the theme song’s English cover version, whereas its German release uses the German dub’s theme song as heard in the TV series.
- The game’s remake, which swaps the theme song’s cover version for its original TV version, only plays the song in English, no matter the language selected.
The remake's credited linguists.
- Due to the additional localization needed for the game's remake, Quantic Lab Quality Assurance hired various testers and linguists.
- Some unused dialogue from the original game has been reinserted in the remake (primarily dialogue spoken by the playable characters during gameplay).
- When activating the Cruise Bubble, SpongeBob's line, "SpongeBob to mission control, the launch is a go!" uses an alternate take that was present in the files of the original game.
- Based on unused graphics in SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated, a Slovene localization may have been planned for the game, along with a possible Canadian French localization.
- On March 2, 2025, a leak of content from THQ Nordic occurred, revealing additional planned localizations for SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated via their logos.
Gallery[]
SpongeBob SquarePants- Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated - Languages are F.U.N. Trailer
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