SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab is an action-adventure platform game released for Microsoft Windows Game Boy Advance GameCube PlayStation 2 Nintendo DS and Wii by THQ. An Xbox version may have been planned at some point but was cancelled for unknown reasons. The PS2 GameCube and Wii versions are all ports of the same game developed by Blitz Games while the Game Boy Advance Nintendo DS and PC versions were separate games developed by WayForward Technologies and AWE Games respectively. It is based on the Nickelodeon animated sitcom SpongeBob SquarePants and stars the title character his best friend Patrick Star and their enemy Plankton as they journey to nine different worlds supposedly inside the dreams of the characters. The Wii version was a North American launch title. It is also the first SpongeBob game released in Japan (PlayStation 2 and Wii versions) but was released under the title SpongeBob (????·?? Suponjibobu) to mark it as the first video game in the SpongeBob series to have a Japanese release. The PC version of the game is titled SpongeBob SquarePants: Nighty Nightmare.