The Yellow Avenger

Video game

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The Yellow Avenger
General information
Developer:	Tantalus Media
Publisher:	THQ
Designer:	Mare Chaffe & Bill Opert
Released:	DS: November 7, 2005 PSP: March 6, 2006
Genre:	Platformer, Adventure
Modes:	Single-Player, Multiplayer
Ratings:
Platforms:	Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable
Media:	Nintendo DS Game Card, Universal Media Disc

The Yellow Avenger is a SpongeBob SquarePants video game that was released for the Nintendo DS in 2005 and for PlayStation Portable in 2006.

Plot

SpongeBob acquires Mermaid Man's powers when he wears his belt. Unfortunately, SpongeBob puts the Dirty Bubble into a washing machine, which causes him to split into countless dirty bubbles! SpongeBob has to stop villains such as Man Ray, the Sinister Slug, Jumbo Shrimp, Atomic Flounder, and the Dirty Bubble, using Mermaid Man's powers to save Bikini Bottom.

The story is divided into Acts, each with a different villain trying to wreak havoc on Bikini Bottom. Man Ray wants to flood Goo Lagoon, Sinister Slug's evil plan is to stop the talent show, Jumbo Shrimp, with the help of Plankton, creates a machine to shrink people the size of the latter on top of the Sea Needle, the Atomic Flounder causes chaos in the Industrial Park, and the Dirty Bubble returns to put the end of the Yellow Avenger with the machine the Jumbo Shrimp used in the third act and plans to hit SpongeBob with more little Dirty Bubbles.

Locations

• The Wash!
• Industrial Park
• Rock Bottom
• Rock Bottom bus station
• Mrs. Puff's Boating School
• Jellyfish Fields
• Restaurant District
• Snack Bar
• Ice Cream
• The Salty Spitoon
• Weenie Hut Jr's
• Super Weenie Hut Jr's
• Downtown Bikini Bottom
• The Mysterious Old Abandoned Factory
• Krusty Krab
• Chum Bucket
• Shady Shoals Rest Home
• SpongeBob's house
• Squidward Tentacles' house
• Residential District
• Sandy's treedome
• Kelp Forest
• Mermalair
• Sea Needle
• Reef Cinema
• Goo Lagoon
• Giant Anchor
• Life guard tower
• Goo Lagoon Pier
• Mr. Krabs and Pearl's house
• Betsy Krabs' house

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Reception

The Nintendo DS version received positive reviews. GameSpot gave it a 7.4 and IGN gave it 7.7. ΩThe PlayStation Portable version received mixed reviews. GameSpot gave it a 6.7 and Metacritic gave it a score of 48.

Trivia

• This was the first SpongeBob video game to be released for both the DS and PSP.
• There is a picture on a wall in Squidward’s house that resembles a screenshot from Just One Bite. The pixelated picture shows the “Unsure Squidward” face that has become a popular Internet meme.
  • The face was also seen in Battle for Bikini Bottom and Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated.

    

    ”Unsure Squidward” in Just One Bite

    

    “Unsure Squidward” in-game

• SpongeBob can go back to the Sea Needle and explore there.
• In this game, SpongeBob shows how to make jellyfish jelly.
• After playing the game, the player unlocks a character viewer.
• It is revealed in the game that the Sea Needle is the tallest building in Downtown Bikini Bottom.
• Bubble Bass and Flats the Flounder were going to be in the game, but were removed.
• SpongeBob can explore the Industrial Park from "Prehibernation Week," the Kelp Forest from "Club SpongeBob," and Rock Bottom from the episode of the same name.
• The little Dirty Bubbles are red, rather than the actual dirty brown color of the original Dirty Bubble.
• The game does not save after the player beats it. This is so the final boss battle can be played an infinite number of times. This also means that the percentage complete of a game file will always be at 99% and it will never reach 100%.
• Although this is the first SpongeBob DS game, it is not the very first video DS game SpongeBob has been featured in. The first DS game SpongeBob was featured in was Nicktoons Unite!, which was released in October 2005.
• When SpongeBob is in his room, if one looks closely, they can see under Gary's food bowl is the "Town Scared" newspaper from "Pranks a Lot."
• The PSP version was later re-released in the PSP Greatest Hits line in 2008. The same version was then re-released again in PAL countries as part of the PlayStation Essentials line.
• SpongeBob can make water balls like the ones Mermaid Man makes in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy."
• This is the first SpongeBob game to be Rated 7 by the Pegi.

Errors

• The Reef Cinema is in town, but in the series it is has a path leading to the cinema, which separates it from the town. A similar error occurs in the game SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom.

References

External links

• Official Lights, Camera, Pants! Site, including information about The Yellow Avenger