Nicktoons Freeze Frame Frenzy

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Nicktoons Freeze Frame Frenzy (known as SpongeBob SquarePants and Friends in Freeze Frame Frenzy in the UK) is a Nicktoons crossover video game that was released on September 27, 2004 in North America for the Game Boy Advance.

Story

Jimmy Neutron has discovered that a lot of Nicktoon characters have been misplaced in different worlds. So he sends his friends to help send them back with a special camera he made. After all the characters are put back into the right place, Jimmy discovers that Zim is behind it. So he goes to confront him.

After beating Zim, all the Nicktoons have a cookout. After the credits roll, Zim tells GIR that it's time for his new plan.

Gameplay

The player would first choose a world to play in (the world being one of the Nicktoons). Then they would choose a Nicktoon to play as; however, they cannot choose to play as the Nicktoon native to the chosen world. Then they would walk through the level while doing the following:

1. Taking pictures of out of place objects.
2. Avoiding obstacles.
3. Completing tasks that Jimmy gave you before the level.

If the player were to take a picture of an out of place thing or complete a task, they would earn points. If the player were to earn enough points by the end of the level, they would advance to the next. At the end of each world, the player would face a boss. The boss would be a robotic version of a Nicktoon character. To beat the boss, the player would have to take pictures of it enough times. Also, the player would have a scrapbook to keep track of what he/she has taken a picture of.

Shows represented

• The Fairly OddParents!
• All Grown Up!
• Danny Phantom
• Hey Arnold!
• Invader Zim
• Rocket Power
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• The Wild Thornberrys
• My Life as a Teenage Robot
• Tak and the Power of Juju

Playable characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Otto Rocket
• Arnold Shortman
• Danny Fenton
• Timmy Turner
• Tommy Pickles
• Jimmy Neutron (playable after finishing the game)
• Zim (playable when the photo album is 100%)

Development

General

• There's two unused songs in the game. One is an earlier version of The Fairly OddParents theme while the other one seems to be an unused menu theme.

Prerelease

• The points meter was going to have 8 instead of 6.
• Different characters were in different worlds.
• The logo for each of the Nicktoons shows were different in prerelease images.

Screenshots

• Nicktoons Freeze frame Frenzy Beta.
  Nicktoons Freeze frame Frenzy Beta.

Reception

The game has received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator Metacritic gave the game a 53/100.

Walkthrough

File:Nicktoons Freeze Frame Frenzy Game Boy Advance Longplay

Trivia

General

• Nicktoons Snap Shot, an unreleased game developed by Warthog Games' Zed Two and planned to release during Q3 or Q4 2004 for the PlayStation 2, shares a few similarities with this game suggesting that Nicktoons Snap Shot may have been a planned console version for this game.
• This game has backwards compatibility because it can be played on all Nintendo DS and DS Lite units.
• At some point in 2005, this video game and Battle for Bikini Bottom were released in a bundle called the Double Pack Volume 3.
  • Also, at some point in 2005, this video game and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie video game were released in a bundle called the Double Pack Volume 2 in the UK.
    • On March 16, 2007, this video game, SuperSponge, and two other Nickelodeon video games were released in a bundle called Nickelodeon 4 Games On One Game Pak.
• Arnold is one of the playable characters that does not appear in the introduction.

Episode references

• Similar to the episode "The Paper," the paper pops in and out of SpongeBob's head throughout the game.
• Bubble Bass from "Pickles" is in the Krusty Krab.
• SpongeBob and Patrick are working on the Flying Dutchman's ship like in "Shanghaied."
• Squidward is frequently trying to eat a Krabby Patty like in "Just One Bite." Also, a fish throws away a half-eaten Patty, from in the same episode.
• The fish oddly sucking on his Patty, the fish with the fake head, and the Robot Krabs from "Imitation Krabs" are seen.
• Patrick is seen with the magic pencil drawing Timmy Turner, Arnold Shortman, Otto Rocket, and SpongeBob SquarePants referencing "Frankendoodle."
• SpongeBob falls out of a tree and into the mud like in "Gary Takes a Bath."
• SpongeBob swells up with water in his bathtub, shown in the theme song.
• Sandy is attacked by a giant clam like in "Tea at the Treedome."

Errors

• On the FOP version, where Timmy's clothing is more red than pink.
• When the gruff voice says, "Report your progress to me at once, faithful robotic impostor minion!," the game misspells "impostor" as "imposter."

Cartridges

• North American Game Pak
  North American Game Pak
• European Game Pak
  European Game Pak

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