SpongeBob SquarePants Bikini Bottom Bowling is a SpongeBob SquarePants arcade ticket redemption game developed by Play Mechanix and manufactured by the Chicago Gaming Company. It was released in 2007 exclusively in arcades.
Description
Players choose their character and then roll a bowling ball down the lane shown on the screen, with tickets being rewarded based upon the number of knocked over pins. If a strike is rolled, play continues, and if the player manages three strikes in a row, the ticket jackpot is awarded. The ticket amounts and game difficulty are adjustable.
Controls
- Roll Ball - Roll the trackball
- Move character - Move trackball left/right.
- Change character - Press the "Start" button.
Playable characters
Walkthrough
Trivia
- The game's OS is a version of Slax Linux.
- Despite the game's recovery software disc being 2GB, the actual base game size is actually 180MB.
- The game has leftover sound effects from another arcade game called "Big Buck Hunter."
- In the game's files, there are voice clips from various episodes from season 1 and season 2.
- The game has leftover music and dialog from Chicago Gaming's previous SpongeBob game, SpongeBob SquarePants Jellyfishing.
- All sounds, dialog, and music are actually speed up in game.
- Every playable character (except Squidward) has 2 models, a Normal model, and a Fail model.
- The game started development in 2004.
- This is one of the rarest SpongeBob Arcade games, as Chicago Gaming only manufactured 200 cabinets.
- On the side of the cabinet, Sandy has a unique design that features red and blue stripes on her arms, exposed legs with blue shorts, and a red stripe on her boots.
- SpongeBob also has several different bowling outfits seen on various parts of the cabinet.
- Despite not being a playable character, Gary the Snail is still featured in the game as one of the spectators during gameplay.
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