


In the PlayStation version, spatulas serve as Sonic the Hedgehog-style health measures for the player. By collecting all 100 in a level, SpongeBob earns an extra life. Scattered through all the levels there are spatulas. In addition, the fourth level of every chapter has a boss enemy who must be defeated to progress. Each world is divided into four levels, which are cleared by collecting the object desired by Barnacle Boy. The game is divided in five worlds (listed as "chapters"): Bikini Bottom, The Center of the Earth (an underwater volcano), Prehistoric Bikini Bottom, Rock Bottom, and Industrial (the industrial district of Bikini Bottom). Early source code for the Game Boy Advance version was later found and released in 2019 as well. The source code and most of the development assets for the PlayStation version were sold on two DVDs, and the contents were released on the Internet Archive in 2016. The game was later reissued for the PlayStation as a Greatest Hits title.

The PlayStation version of SuperSponge sold 1.06 million copies, becoming one of the console's best-selling games. It is the second SpongeBob game released on PlayStation, after Nicktoons Racing, which features SpongeBob, Patrick, and Plankton as playable characters. The Game Boy Advance version was also released on a Twin Pack cartridge bundled with SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman and a Triple Pack cartridge bundled with Tak and the Power of Juju and Rugrats: I Gotta Go Party in 2005. It was released for the PlayStation on Novemand for the Game Boy Advance on November 8, 2001. The game is based on the Nickelodeon cartoon series of the same name. SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge is a 2001 2.5D platform game developed by Climax Development and published by THQ.
