Lost Media Sundays: Spongebob Saves The Krusty Krab 3D

Welcome to the 1st ever Lost Media Sunday! In this weekly post ill cover a hidden or lost media, like videogames or shows. It doesnt have to be all about cartoon network right?

SpongeBob SquarePants Saves the Krusty Krab 3D is a 2002 computer game developed by 3D Groove for Nick.com's Nick Arcade service. 3D Groove; the developers for the game also made a couple of other games based on Nick's cartoons, including; The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius: Rescue Jet Fusion, Hey Arnold!: Runaway Bus and Dora the Explorer 3D Driving Adventure.

This game, among others, were included in a very rare Nick Arcade Games CD as a free trial. However, according to the Spongepedia as well as other sources, a bug occurs on the disc where if you tried to play it, an internal system error would be displayed and would not let you play it. 
 
Sadly, Nick Arcade was shut down in 2009 when Nickelodeon changed the look of its channel and logo as well as its website. Since then, the game, let alone a functional, playable version became very hard to find, leading to the game being practically impossible to play.

On March 31, 2015, a Lost Media contributor by the name of  KoboChat leaked a fully functional, downloadable trial of the game, available here

Gameplay is fairly simple. The game's main objective is to collect all of the Krabby Patties in the stage and return them to the Krusty Krab before time runs out. You can play as one of 3 characters depending on which version you play. If you're playing the Free Version, you can only play as SpongeBob, but if you're playing the Full Version you can play as either SB, Patrick or Squidward, each with programmed quotes from the Season 1 episodes; FUN, Sandy's Rocket, Squeaky Boots, and Culture Shock.

Each character has their own quirks as well:
SpongeBob: Moves the slowest, and the most common quote is "I think you're a winner." when Time is Up, and "Ah! There's one now!" when close to a Jellyfish.

Patrick: Second fastest, the only known quote is a crying sound effect when Time is Up (lasts for about 2 seconds)

Squidward: The fastest character playable, and the most common quote played is "My vacation begins NOW!" which is programmed for when Time is Up.

There is only 1 enemy in the game, a jellyfish, and a power-up that makes you run faster for a limited time.

 

What do you think about this 1st ever Lost Media Sunday? Tell me in the comments if i should do more of these in the future!

-Plants10000 (Mega4500)