SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty

SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty
Developer: AWE Games Publisher: THQ Platform: Windows Released internationally: September 24, 2001 This game has unused playable characters. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has revisional differences.

AWE Games' first SpongeBob SquarePants game. The game has two stories, but they both involve playing the same five minigames.

Unused Graphics

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Thumbnails for each zone.

A thumbnail for the movie menu. It's a frame from one of the cutscenes.

A thumbnail for the main menu with SpongeBob in bed. Unlike the actual menu, he has sleeves.

A thumbnail with the Jellyfish Fields sign.

A thumbnail with "BoaTiNG SChoOl" crudely edited over the Jellyfish Fields sign.

Editor

Icons found in the graphics of every level. They could be related to the "editor", which the game's executable mentions frequently.

boattest.pcx

A row of boats named boatest.pcx meant to be seen in Boating School 101.

Unused Models

Mr. Krabs

MRKRAB.PRO is an unused model of Mr. Krabs. He does appear in the game, but as a 2D sprite steering the ship in "Save Me Money". He was most likely to be a playable character in the minigame because when you replace Z5SPON.PRO with MRKRAB.PRO, his texture appears correctly, but he will be small. He has animations for when he mounts the cannons.

Boat

BOAT3.PRO is SpongeBob's boat from the season 2 episode No Free Rides but with no wheels. It was meant for Boating School 101, which only has two levels, making this go unused. The boat itself was later reused in Employee of the Month as the car that needs to be washed, as well as the Windows version of Battle for Bikini Bottom in the Traffic Jam minigame.

Unused Sounds

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A sparkling sound effect likely meant for unlocking something. It was later used in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie as the pickup sound.

Unused Text

SpongeBob.exe, the game's executable, is where all the text is. While there isn't much to find, there's still a few interesting things.

pics\editor\iconborder.pcx
pics\editor\iconselect.pcx

References to removed graphics related to some sort of editor.

Can't save when in editor mode

Another reference to an editor.

Revisional Differences

Some releases of the games use a generic AWE Games intro in the beginning, however most of them use an animated Plankton intro.

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