![]() He's probably onto something there, but personally, it feels more like the latest manifestation of memetic primordial soup-how any joke, if told long enough and seriously enough, can beget life.īut I'd like to think that even if THQ wasn't readying a remake, the Bikini Bottom diehards would still be here, shaving away at the world record pace. SHIFT tells me that for a period on Twitch, top streamers would list their channels under the Bikini Bottom name as they were delving into some other obscure game. Nobody has a good answer for why it happened. Even in an age of remakes, Bikini Bottom's renaissance is a spectacular outlier. The ocean's tender seaweed fields sway in glistening 4K, and you can stare into each and every pore on Squidward's nose. The company showed off footage at Gamescom. ![]() ![]() At 2017's Awesome Games Done Quick, SHIFT's SquarePants run topped 108,000 viewers.Įarlier this year, THQ Nordic announced it will publish a remake entitled SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom-Rehydrated. A yellow, spongey snowball was now rolling downhill. Today SHIFT streams the game constantly on his Twitch channel, and says that initially, his efforts caused a stir in the greater speedrunning community: "People were curious to know why anyone would play a SpongeBob game seriously, and the attention that brought helped build my channel up to eventually become partnered with Twitch and get the game into Awesome Games Done Quick 2017," he explains.
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