I'm not dead. One last thing I could've mentioned in the trivia section is that in the trailer footage at 39:25 you can see the Elf Apartments in the inventory but they have no Elf character showing with them, and I have no idea what that's about.

I’m glad I ain’t the only one who thinks “JASON” whenever I see a .json file

Honestly one of my favourite genres of videos is "Some guy talks about his very specific desire to play some old incredibly obscure game and so he spends ages trying everything as he gives a bit by bit rundown of everything he did until it finally worked" so I very much enjoyed this

I love it when people do this! Saying "screw you big companies, I'm going to keep playing your game!" and playing a dead game is one of my favorite thing to do. I am still trying to revive the _Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles_ game, which I haven't been able to do yet because I need the cache data.

All of the savedata being in a .json is. Fucking insane

My mom and I used to be obsessed with this game. I actually still have it on my iPad, it still works and I have Gary unlocked. He, along with every other character, wants these birthday cake items from the birthday blowout event… which are literally impossible to make now, lol. My mom says it still works on her phone, but some of the graphics, (such as most of the buildings.) are corrupted and show up as a weird garbled mess of graphics. This was a fantastic video, really hoping it gets more traction, great work man.

ah yes back when facebook had 100s of sims type games for everything like cars and dragons and the simpsons and i guess spongeboi

Him uploading everything to the internet archive so nobody has to go through all this again is such a boss move that rarely happens, thank you for this

I think the fact that you explicitly remember so much about small details and exact operations of the game making this entire video possible is pretty damn wild lol

I used to love playing this game as a kid, but MAN, was it so broken and unpolished. This game really deserved more love and support.

The virgin SpongeBob: Adventures In A Jam. The Chad SpongeBob Moves In

Got very engrossed in this video only to find out it had 700 views. Definitely deserves more

one of the best 40 minutes i've wasted watching content about a game i've never played in my life. Presentation is really nice

"Your not getting the game." "But I want the game I want SpongeBob" A few quotes from a certain video referencing this game that caused someone to end up on the news!

I still remember watching the ads for this game that’d air inbetween commercial breaks, it really was just a kid friendly version of Simpsons Tapped Out! with maybe a little bit of The Quest for Stuff from Family Guy

Good video man i like when you reanimated spongebobs corpse

I remember this game! I feel sorry that the algorithm didn't work on you, this deserves way more views! edit: woah the view count has accelerated!

i played simpsons tapped out a long time ago and then stopped for a few years and then i tried logging on again and my entire city was gone...

I'm glad to see someone not only take the time to talk about this quirky little bit of Spongebob history (one myself I enjoyed when it existed), but also fully archive it as best they can for people to still play and get a close look into at least some of the inner workings of the app. Amazing video, absolutely criminal this hasn't even broken 10k views yes. Hope that changes!

As someone who participated in the Fry Cook Games event, I believe the Colosseum was either directly given at some point (like a community prize or smth) or just plopped right in the land expansion with the Health Store at the beginning. I don't remember being able to move or store it, though.

If this never happened, it would've became forever lost media, but thanks to you, we will remember this game. 😊

Was just kinda expecting a retrospective on the game (i played it a ton growing up) but honestly this was really engaging and fun, nice work, hopefully this video pops off.

I didn’t even realize the game shut down! I remember seeing so many ads for it when watching Spongebob. This was definitely a trip down memory lane.

Games based on licensed IPs should allow offline play even if servers shut down and reinstall from the app library if delisted from digital storefronts. I have a few games that I can still download and play that were delisted (Ski Safari: Adventure Time), but this is probably the first time a game that you would have to pay, be almost remotely useless or broken (mobile game-wise).

wait i remember watching ads of this game on tv so many times as a kid

I played this on an old Amazon fire tablet so much years ago as a child! This video gave me nostalgia, and it brought back so much memories!

I had forgotten about this game's existing but the moment I saw the title I knew exactly what it was, very fascinating video! The fact this only have 1k views is a crime, the video is very well put together and interesting. Had no idea the game received official support for nearly 10 years...

I remember this game warmly, due to a recent 2017 Halloween update, I had an ungodly amount of Smitty Warbenmanjenson’s corpse lying around.

i was so pissed when they took this offline. all my years of grinding patties at the krab. gone. i had all of the main characters. they're gone too. i put so many hours into this game just to have it ripped away from me. on judgment day, when god convenes with his clergy of sinners, saints, angels, and demons, viacom shall pay for condemning me to this shakespearean tragedy.

I have so much nostalgia for this game, I died of nostalgia when I saw the opening cutscene. My little child heart was destroyed after I saw that it was closing down. I remember exactly where I was when it happened (I was in the car having my tablet out near a motel)

I absolutely adore the editing here, not too overbearing or too "brainrotty", but also has some great jokes.

I remember having this game on iOS. Unfortunately i didn’t go too far into it before it closed. Because i first had it in 2018. But i didn’t know it was THAT old. Neither is it being “lost” cuz i downloaded it in 2018 anyway, and i could go through my old purchases and redownload it, and speaking of redownloading, i already did.

I remember I stopped playing this game as a child only because it randomly reset my progress. Good times

god this feels like i time traveled. i used to play spongebob moves in to death as a kid on my dad's phone, glad to see im not the only one who remembered it (and also not the only one who felt defeated when it did eventually close down). insanely good video! love the editing and pacing, and the general info as well is just as entertaining

21:35 this is true up to a point. while the sonic racer decomp video by mattkc goes into more detail about unity decomps, the gist of it is that unity added a feature to the engine in version 5 called il2cpp (intermediate language to cpp). this basically turns the jit bytecode into true machine code by doing exactly what it says on the tin - converting it to c++ before compiling. this makes reverse engineering a lot harder, but could theoretically decrease file size and improve performance since it's running native code, not a just in time compiler

I used to be obsessed with this game..... So thanks for covering it! :D

It’s a good thing I still have SpongeBob moves in. I’ll make gameplay videos of it soon.

I remember when it closed, how sad. At least Spongebob Adventures in a Jam, while being worse, kind of fill it's place in my heart

this game was a core memory for me. i remember playing it, god, ten years ago? it was on a hand-me-down phone and i remember having fun with it until one day, i got my first "real" smartphone, (i.e. with cellular service) and i forgot it existed. to hear that it's just gone was a little upsetting, glad to see what you've done here.

This is awesome! There are many games that have been removed that I wished I could get back up working. This scratches the itch a little, and I'm just impressive you got it working. Great stuff!

The sounds of this game's commercial still rings in my ears...

I never knew the game left the app store, but I totally remember it, along with Smurfs Village and the Ice Age game.

I remember this was the first phone game I bought and I begged so much to get it (we were poor 💀) only for the game to take FOREVER to launch. thank you for reviving these memories.

Scott Cramer jumpscare I remember this game, glad this came into my recommended, I’m liking it :) subbing

There’s a SpongeBob game in the mid 2010s that i lost, it’s a game where you played as sponge bob serving kraby patty and you need to click on the costumer to serve them than SpongeBob would walk to serve them, than they would leave dirty plates on the tables than we have to click it than SpongeBob would walk there and pick it (I remember you could stack it too not sure though).

Reminds me a lot of my personal experiences messing with ios file directories of my favorite games back in the day. Your archival efforts don't go unnoticed! Thank you!

Jeffy finally is going to not ask for his dad’s credit card when he sees this.

I played the hell out of this game growing up and I remember when the game shut down I tried getting it back up and running with the OBBs and such but to no prevail. Amazing video, can't wait for the next one!

underrated channel, wish the algorithm would promote this more and hey, thanks to it i got here so good going on that end. 16:25 and yes i instantly thought of this albeit I knew this game had to be Unity based so you'd need a bit more work to get the assets out, good thing you did

This is sad. I thought it was still running

I just watched that Minecraft Apple TV video! Trollstore is the best! Great video subbed :D

Absolute legend! I remember this game i always used to play it, though i never got far, but it was just completely erased from my memory, love the video and all the work mate, you deserve way more views! Subbed!

Thank you so much for jogging my memory about playing this game! I remember playing this game because I couldn't find my favorite Town Builder game anymore!

There is NO WAY this video only has 3 thousand views, this video was genuinely so entertaining

Great video man! I enjoyed this a lot, I liked the peep show edits. What a great show fr

Your editing style scratches my brain so nice

If the game can be decompiled in unity, I wonder if it’s possible for someone to get the decompile to actually work

bro unlocked a memory i forgot i had

Honestly im so happy the algorithm showed me your channel you deserve more subs Great video btw

Bro you are super underrated, thank you for this amazing 40 minutes of my time.

I honestly didn’t pay attention to the first part of the video bc I thought it was a real ad and I had to go back and rewatch it once I realized

Fun fact: this game was in "sml short: jeffy's tantrum" (the video that made a kid tie a noose around his neck)

I’m so glad this video is getting so much recognition, very random but amazingly crafted

your attention to detail is impressive. well done!

ultimatespongebobfan101 mentioned + peak game mentioned also very good video! also back in the day, you were required to have wifi on iOS, it was agonizingly slow too :)

I remember getting ads of this game on TV! I never downloaded it as I never had my own phone myself but it's nostalgic seeing that AD

Commenting to help the video do better in the algorithm - this deserves a million views. Absolutely goated video.

This is some good work dude I'm loving the editing and jokes.

This used to be one of my favorite games! I cant believe I forgot about it. This was really a blast from the past.

Finding in this video that David Mitchell was in one of those "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" commercials as a PC just makes me wanna buy a PC over a Mac. DM is a treasure.

Dude, i thank you for doing the lords work. I remember playing this as a kid and being disappointed to see it gone. This just made my day much better.

good video, interesting stuff. love the presentation and the music you chose, especially the classical music.

Anyone with any experience in any amount of coding is dying trying to watch this

bro, this game and simpsons tapped out were the shit back then. i will always remember these games. it was so sad to hear this game got completely wiped from existence.

i havent seen any of your content before this vid, but you clearly put a lot of effort into it! i hope your channel continues to grow

Love this, didn’t know it was taken down, I have redownloaded it twice in the past couple years. Need one of these for minions paradise and SpongeBob marbles and slides now tho

How convenient, i was actually just thinking about this game and was sad that it was removed

as a hobbyist gamedev in my free time, love watching stuff like this, it shows me what not to do to players (like taking a game that has an offline mode and killing it entirely just because we're taking down the servers) I REMEMBER PATRICK BEING A LEVEL 30 SOMETHING UNLOCK I WAS SO UPSET CUS I WANTED TO HAVE THEM BOTH TOGETHER AND MAKE BIKINI BOTTOM LOOK LIKE IT DOES ON TV

Briefly heard of this game a long time ago and didn't think much of it. Never once thought there'd be a video delving into its weirdly rich history and bizarre inner workings, all nearly lost to time. And presented so well. 10:27 "Let's get into the weeds" got me excited.

thank you SO MUCH for making a whole video about this spongebob game. it released right into my 2013 ipad kid phase, and it sucked a ton for the fact that it was paid both in iOS and Android :( so i had limited gameplay experiences but those few devices which had the game dowloaded... was very pleasing, and nostalgic to remember nowadays. in my case, i first dowloaded probably in 2013/2014 (??) (can't put my finger on exactly) and my dad paid using some old international card. he lost that card some years later and i couldn't install the game again on my new tablet, until 2017 when i've already switched to android and finally bought it again using gift cards! i even recorded some gameplay on my channel during that year, but since these were in my opnion "cringy" i've deleted all of them. yikes, it would be better to just private them thinking about everything now

In part 5, you mention the game acting weird now, and that's because the servers still hosting any data at all (aka the shutdown message) has itself been shut down, and the game hangs as it trys to get any server connection, eventually failling over to the offline mode.

Thanks for sharing! It came out around same time as Simpsons mobile tap game with similar play structure. And I think ultimately they all came as a result of games like Age of Empires and FarmVille. lol

Oh my god I remember this game!! I played it a ton as a kid!! I’m so glad you revived it!!

i vaguely remember this game existing as a kid but my parents didnt believe in spending money on the app stores so i never played it. im immediately loading it onto my phone as im typing this comment. great video, agree with all the other comments saying this deserves to have way more views than it does. hope this blows up, you deserve as much

Genuinely shocked you have such a low subscriber and view count for this otherwise very impressive video! Digital necromancy just isn't as appreciated as it should be, I suppose

I REMEMBER THIS

I remember seeing ads for this game as a kid! For some reason I never ask my parents to download it even though I want it. Wished I did lol. Great video btw, love watching the old SpongeBob gameplay lol.

Was not expecting such a thorough video. Good job.

The Spongebob: Tapped Out

Holy mackerel so cool, I should probably check in to see if Skylanders Lost Island is alive

This is really good keep making this type of content!

great video!! hearing about your passion for this game and very precise memory was so cool!!

Would it be possible to pull this sort of necromancy with Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow as well?

Ok now do SpongeBob diner dash

What a trip haha, great video friend and kudos on leaving your mark on game preservation history! Mad respect for anyone trying to keep stuff like this alive

Your video imhas hit the algorithm! Now that you ripped the files to the internet archive hopefully someone can mod the game to be less jank

Now all that’s left is to setup a Private Server for the game!

i was 9 and accidentally charged my parents card $200 playing this game, it was a huge situation lmao

Half the time this man speaks like Sherlock or the Doctor and I can barely understand anything he's saying yet I process it all at the same time.

That's some impressive work you've done there mate!