#Spongebob Atlantis Squarepantis

[starleska]

okay, obscure character incoming - Lord Royal Highness from Atlantis Squarepantis kinda serves, right? 🙈💖

[froskii]

hes so zesty XDDDDD DD D d d d gawwwd drawing on this phone is so fun

[terminallyapologetic]

dont crucify me but I liked atlantis squarepantis...

[spongebobsoundtrack]

Jack Beaver - Death in the City Plays in:

SpongeBob SquarePants

44a. "Nasty Patty" 

44b. "Idiot Box" 

92. "Atlantis SquarePantis" 

108a. "Patty Caper" 

109b. "The Krabby Kronicle" 

129a. "Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy" 

246a. "Plankton's Old Chum" 

The Patrick Star Show

13a. "Nitwit Neighborhood News" 

28b. "Now Museum, Now You Don't"

[the-theartpal]

Let’s get this weird extra nonsense account started with everyone’s favorite thing: fan art of licensed video games!

[laughableillusions]

Love this guy, whatever his deal was

[amereaardvark]

you know what, i'm gonna play atlantis squarepantis on the wii soon

[doodle-doodie-doo]

I cannot stand this butch ass willey wonka mother fucker, hes such a people pleaser, he is the LORD ROYAL HINESS, HAS THE OLDEST BUBBLE KNOWN TO MAN, A ROOM FILLED WITH ARTS, PILES OF GOLD, AND HIGH MODREN TECH, and he picks a bunch of low life losers from bikini bottom, low wage bottom feeders. (besides Sandy idfk how much she makes, the seems the only one worthy enough to be there but at the same time why tf is she even there in the first place) this mf just takes the crew out through the whole castel or whatever, NOT CARING THAT THESE MFS WRECK HIS SHIT, NONE OF THEM GETTING ON HIS NERVES WTF LITERALLY MR KRAPS SUOLDL SPINGRBOB SOL FOR A CENT AND HES FUCKING LETTING HIM IN HIS CASTEL?? WHAT THE FUCK

[jareaulover]

it's taken me 16 years to realize that atlantis squarepantis is, like, a willy wonka formula special.

[starleska]

dear mutuals are Spongeposting again so i needed to highlight my favourite minor character from Spongebob Squarepants...Lord Royal Highness 🙈💖 i just!!! think he is so cute!!! in a super unnerving way!!!

[froskii]

Dude thinks he’s sooooo innocent 😇😇😇😇😇

kinda experimented with my styel here and I like it alot

[bro3256]

The source of the video game bleeps and bloops in media

Have you ever wondered what the source of those specific video game bleeps and bloops were from? Odds are if a show or movie had a character play a video game or if a scene takes place in an arcade than it's very likely that it uses the same distinct sound effects that originally were sourced from the Atari VCS (2600) ports of Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. These ports are already historically important with Donkey Kong being one of the few Nintendo games to be released on non-Nintendo hardware and Pac-Man being one of the most anticipated releases for Atari at the time. Today these ports are often mocked for how butchered they are to the arcade originals but at the time these were fine ways to experience these arcade games at home.

So why are the sounds from these arcade ports used so often in media? You can pretty much thank the widespread use of a particular sound effect library and in this case the Series 1000 Sound Effects Library which initially released on tape in 1979 and released on CD in 1983. A good chunk of this library contains the same sounds found on another sound library called the Network Sound Effects Library.

The Series 1000 library however includes audio recordings of gameplay from these Atari games. Ever since then, these sounds have been used for many years and continues to be used to this very day. Before I showcase some examples of media using these sounds I would like to present the recordings from these games. The following is sourced from the Series 1000 Sound Effects Library which feature sound effects from Atari arcade ports.

If you're familiar with these ports than you can make out the specific sound effects present from these recordings. The distinct walking and jumping sounds in Donkey Kong and the dots being eaten and game over sounds from Pac-Man are the more identifiable sounds you hear. With this in mind here are a handful of examples of these sounds being used in media.

(Note: Due to Tumblr restricting one video per post I have compiled all the example clips in a single video so feel free to read below for the specific sound bytes used whilst the video plays.)

Arthur (1996)

The season 1 episode "Arthur Accused!" has Buster investigating an arcade which features sounds from Pac-Man as it eats ghosts and a faint sound of Pac-Man dying from a ghost.

Drake & Josh (2004)

The season 2 episode "The Bet" has Josh playing your typical video game but features several seconds of audio from Donkey Kong. Weirdly music from the Nintendo NES version of Tetris (Type-A specifically) can be heard when Josh is playing on his "handheld" which is clearly a red Game Boy Advance SP.

SpongeBob SquarePants (2007)

The season 5 episode "Atlantis SquarePantis" features a segment of Sandy in a retro inspired environment. The puzzle game segment features various cut up sound bytes from Donkey Kong including jumping over barrels and the walking sounds.

Chowder (2008)

The season 1 episode "Sniffleball" features a brief sound effect from Donkey Kong of Mario jumping over a barrel. (also what is this retro nonsense?)

Ted (2024)

The season 1 episode "Just Say Yes" features Ted and John playing Super Mario Bros. on the NES. For whatever reason no footage of the game is shown and the audio used is from, you guessed it those Atari games. Donkey Kong sound effects can be heard while brief snippets of Pac-Man can also be heard mixed in.

I could keep going but you get the idea. There are plenty of other examples you can find and I highly recommend checking out the Sound Effects Wiki if you're curious to see what other examples are out there. Linked below are the articles for the other sources for these Atari recordings.

Sound Ideas, ARCADE, VIDEO GAME - VIDEO GAME: ELECTRONIC SOUNDS, AMUSEMENT PARK, FAIR 01 Sound Ideas, ARCADE, VIDEO GAME - VIDEO GAME: ELECTRONIC SOUNDS, AMUSEMENT PARK, FAIR 02

I guarantee most folks nowadays aren't even aware that these sounds are from actual Atari games cause out of context they sound like generic bleeps and bloops. That's probably why it's so common to hear these sounds in media as unless you're a nerd like myself this is something you're likely not going to think about and I'd imagine the folks working with audio aren't gonna stop and think about where particular sounds come from outside of the library they're featured in.

[the-theartpal]

I’ll do the top three in one post.Unless the secret one wins. That’d be its own thing

[randomimagesofspongebobgames]

SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis Wii PS2 2007 (Oddity)

[amereaardvark]

ATLANTIS SQUAREPANTIS OR BUST