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SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! (Windows)

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As usual, the Windows version of SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! is completely different from the console versions. Instead of being just a minigame collection, it's a point and click game similar to SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month and the PC version of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, with minigames being sprinkled within certain points (usually to unlock new areas). It also recycles countless assets from AWE Games' previous SpongeBob titles, as well as background art from the show.

Unused Graphics#

dump2#

dump2.sbg is background art of a dumpster from the episode Missing Identity. It was meant for the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy movie, likely for the scene at the dump, which actually uses parts of this background for the fight scene.

Shady_icecream#

Shady_icecream.sba is an image of an ice cream truck cropped from a background used in the episode Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V. It's found in the files for Shady Shoals, but it isn't seen anywhere, nor does it correspond with any of Shady Shoal's backgrounds.

KevinCloseup#

KevinCloseup.sba is a closeup of Kevin's crotch from the episode I'm Your Biggest Fanatic. Whether it was for an early loading screen or a close-up similar to one of Patar's is unknown.

Unused Textures#

Stunt Double#

A texture taken from the console version, found in the Sneaky Hermit costume.

Unused Videos#

MENU01.bik is a strange video that takes place on the menu screen. It has a jellyfish on a string and an animatronic shark on the stage.

Oddities#

SpongeBob's Underpants#

SpongeBob has his underwear modeled, leftover from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

Accidental Placeholder Dialogue#

During the movie at the end of the game, if you cast Mermaid Man as himself, his last voiceline at the end of the film is clearly done by a different actor, and in lower quality. Probably a developer leftover.

Leftover Cheat#

The "PLANKTON" cheat from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (which unlocked costumes for some chapters) can be activated in this game, but it doesn't do anything.