SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty

SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty is a minigame collection with two different stories to play through. The game has become popular in recent years due to its bizarre cutscenes.

Unused Graphics#

Thumbnails#

Thumbnails for every 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 the text "BoaTiNG SChoOl" in the game's font crudely edited over the Jellyfish Fields sign above.

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 without any 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#

new.wav#

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 level editor.

Can't save when in editor mode

Another reference to an editor.

Revisional Differences#

A handful of early revisions of the game use a generic AWE Games animation for the logo shown when starting the game. All later revisions replace it with an animation of Plankton unfolding the AWE Games logo in a newspaper.