Video Game / Nicktoons Basketball

Nicktoons Basketball is a 2004 sports video game developed by Digital Eclipse and published by THQ that was released for Microsoft Windows. The game is a crossover between several Nicktoons as they play basketball together.

The following Nickelodeon shows and characters are featured in this game:

Shows and characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, Sandy Cheeks, Squidward Tentacles
• The Fairly OddParents!: Timmy Turner, Cosmo, Wanda, AJ
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Jimmy Neutron, Sheen Estavez, Cindy Vortex, Goddard
• Danny Phantom: Danny Fenton
• Rugrats/All Grown Up!: Tommy Pickles^note Appears exclusively in his All Grown Up! incarnation.
• Rocket Power: Reggie Rocket
• My Life as a Teenage Robot: Jenny Wakeman
• Tak and the Power of Juju: Tak^note The only Secret Character.

This game provides examples of the following tropes:

• Big Boo's Haunt: The Ghost Zone is one of the courts in the game.
• Eternal Engine: Jimmy's Lab is one of the courts in the game.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: This is a video game about Nickelodeon characters playing basketball together.
• First Town: Retroville is one of the courts in the game.
• Green Hill Zone: Dimmsdale Park is one of the courts in the game.
• Jungle Japes: Pupununu Village is one of the courts in the game.
• Level in the Clouds: Fairy World is one of the courts in the game.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: It's a crossover between various Nicktoons series.
• Market-Based Title: Released in Europe as SpongeBob SquarePants and Friends: Basketball.
• Palmtree Panic: Ocean Shores is one of the courts in the game.
• Secret Character: Tak is the only unlockable character in the game.
• Spotlight-Stealing Crossover: Nickelodeon's three biggest shows at the time—SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents!, and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius—each get full four-character teams and two courts based on locations in those shows. On the other hand, the other four shows represented in the game from the beginning each have only one character, who are all lumped together in a fourth team, and only Danny Phantom and Rocket Power each get a court based on locations in their shows. Tak also gets just its title character and a court, but they have to be unlocked.
• Under the Sea: Bikini Bottom and Sandy's Treedome are two of the courts in the game.

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