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SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month

2002 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7578976 ↗
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month is a 2002 point-and-click adventure video game developed by AWE Games and published by THQ for Microsoft Windows. It is based on the television show SpongeBob SquarePants, which premiered on Nickelodeon in 1999.

The story focuses on SpongeBob SquarePants receiving two tickets to Neptune's Paradise, a theme park, but many unexpected things happen along the way.

Gameplay

Employee of the Month is a point-and-click adventure game in which the player controls SpongeBob SquarePants. Gameplay consists of the player accomplishing various tasks and collecting items for citizens of Bikini Bottom. A treasure chest acts as an inventory for the player's items, which frequently must be combined to proceed forward. The player can also access a map of the current chapter. Animated cutscenes begin and end each level, and subsequently become available for viewing on the game's main menu. Several videotapes are hidden throughout the game; locating them unlocks special footage of the game's development.

Story

The story focuses on SpongeBob "winning" two tickets to Neptune's Paradise, a theme park.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month” as 2002 video game. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-10-01. The account is most persuasive where SpongeBob, SquarePants and Employee can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2002 video game. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7578976. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.