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Nicktoons: Android Invasion is a Nicktoons crossover educational video game that was released in 2008 for the LeapFrog Didj. In this game, the protagonists from SpongeBob SquarePants, Danny Phantom, and El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera have the main goal to stop Zim from Invader Zim taking over the world while fighting android clones of Nickelodeon characters.

Story[]

Description[]

"Battle robotic clones to save the planet! Invader Zim has a sinister plot to overtake the Earth in this action-pack-side-scroller, you'll do battle with SpongeBob, Danny Phantom or El Tigre. Harness their special powers and your math skills to battle the forces of evil!"

Plot[]

The game starts with a mysterious phone booth ringing in Bikini Bottom, catching SpongeBob's attention. As he picks up the phone, he's suddenly trapped inside the phone booth before being sucked underground, where he finds himself inside an alien base. SpongeBob is then cloned by a cloning machine, creating multiple androids of his likeness. While being cloned, GIR is suddenly seen playing with a pig before accidentally knocking down the cloning machine and the phone booth, liberating SpongeBob at the same time.

Now free, SpongeBob then explored through the pod based on his own world while fighting android clones of his friends. He then found and rescued Patrick Star and Sandy Cheeks, both also trapped in phone booths and cloned by cloning machines. After saving his friends, SpongeBob suddenly meets with Zim through a screen. Zim then reveals himself to be the mastermind behind the cloning machine and plans to use his android army to take over the Earth.

After this, SpongeBob found himself in a vehicle before driving through a tunnel runner, all while avoiding lawn gnomes in his path. He then arrives at the Mircales City Pod, where he meets and liberates the hero of this world, Manny Rivera, also known as El-Tigre. After saving Manny's best friend, Frida, and grandfather, Jorge Rivera. SpongeBob and El-Tigre found themselves in another tunnel runner, where they arrived at the Amity Park Pod. The duo liberates Danny Phantom, who joins them before saving Danny's friends, Sam and Tucker.

After going through another tunnel runner, the trio arrives at the Retroville Pod, where they save Jimmy Neutron's friends, Carl and Cindy, before eventually saving Jimmy himself. Jimmy then reveals that he has been studying the phone booth he's been trapped in and plans to bring it back to his lab in case of an eventual attack by the android army before returning home. After driving through a tunnel runner, the group arrives at the Dimnsdale Pod, where they save Timmy Turner and his fairies, who all return to their home. After that, Jimmy hijacks one of Zim's screens and warns the group that Zim is about to launch an attack with his android army, and they must go to his Central Command to stop him.

After one finale tunner runner, the trio arrives at Zim's Central Command and is met with a gigantic mech, piloted by Zim himself. After defeating it, Zim taunts the group, saying they only saw a fraction of his clone army. However, GIR suddenly revealed that the android army could be destroyed by simply pressing the self-destruct button sitting near the heroes. After SpongeBob presses it, the army is destroyed, causing both Zim and GIR to run away, with Zim promising that he'll come back with a new plan. After that, Jimmy Neutron congratulates the trio and tells them that he sent modified phone booths to bring them back home.

Gameplay[]

The game is a side-scroller featuring three playable characters, SpongeBob, Danny Phantom, and El Tigre. Each characters have different abilities, SpongeBob can hang-glide with his underwear, El-Tigre can climb poles, and Danny can double jump. As the Didj console is made to learn for children, the subject the game focuses on is math. The player can use a junction box where they need to solve math problems in order to activate a platform, turning off an electrical barrier, or destroying a cloning machine.

Playable characters[]

Non-playable characters[]

Enemies[]

Bosses[]

  • Zim

Levels[]

  • Bikini Bottom Pod
  • Miracle City Pod
  • Amity Park Pod
  • Retroville Pod
  • Dimnsdale Pod
  • Zim's Central Command

Unused content[]

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Early version of Bikini Bottom's background, showcasing a twisted version of Conch Street under Zim's control.

On January 24, 2024, the game source code, along with three Nintendo DS prototypes, were released on the Internet Archive and Hidden Palace respectively.[1][2][3][4] The source code reveal that mutliple parts of the game went through multiple iterations during its development. Such as Tak from Tak and the Power of Juju being originally planned to be a playable character but was scrapped due to time constrains.

The game was codenamed "Lightning Nicktoons/LNT" ("Lightning" being also the Leapfrog Didj codename) and also went through several names during it's development such as "Nicktoons: Escape from Zim's Lair of Doom" and "Nicktoons: Clone Invasion." There were initially nine levels instead of five like in the final game.

Gameplay[]

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NickToons Android Invasion gameplay

Trivia[]

General[]

  • This was the only Nicktoons video game to ever be released on the Didj console.
  • The artwork of SpongeBob on the front cover was previously used on the cover of the Deep Sea Sillies VHS tape while the back cover the artwork of SpongeBob was also previously used on the Shocktober! digital cover.

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