History DemBones / VideoGames

** Who loots Cortez' treasure at Isla de Muerta and put the coins in their ship's locker, will too have an undead crew!

* In the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 ShootEmUp ''VideoGame/DeadMoon'', many of the bosses resemble giant skeletal animals, and the FinalBoss is the head, torso and FloatingLimbs of a giant humanoid skeleton.

* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bones_(video_game) Mr. Bones]]'': Another skeleton protagonist is the aptly-named title character in this UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn game.

* In ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'', a animated skeleton named Spinal who has a quirk: to perform certain moves, he must gather energy—represented by tokens shaped like skulls under his life bar (SNES version) or skulls floating around him (arcade and gold versions)—by absorbing opponents' projectile-energy attacks (with his shield in absorbing position) or performing combo breakers. Despite requiring these tokens, his special moves are no stronger than normal special attacks. Spinal can store up to five skull tokens, overloading if he tries to absorb energy for the sixth time. On the sixth attempt he will not block the projectile, and it will cause normal damage and knockdown; he will then be left with one remaining skull. Spinal has two No Mercy moves: one where he repeatedly stabs the enemy with a spike on his shield and another where he summons ghostly, skeletal hands to drag his opponent underground (in the SNES version, the latter became his summoning a bolt of lightning to strike his opponent).

*** Chop Chop was made as a result of a fusion of Undead magic and technology, making him a skeletal knight complete with KnightlySwordAndShield.
*** ''Giants'' features the Undead elf called Fright Rider and his skeletal ostrich Ozzy.
*** ''Trap Team'' introduces a skeletal dog known as Funny Bone.
*** ''Superchargers'' has a more elaborate version of this in the form of Fiesta, a FriendlySkeleton trumpeter based on the Day of the Dead.

* Also a supplemental unit in ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper2'', acquired by letting your [=POWs=] rot in jail. The cutscenes featuring skeletons reveal them to have retained their ligaments so as not to fall apart, as well as a single eye. They also tend to have dreadlocks.
** Found in the first ''Dungeon Keeper'' too, acquired in the same way. No eyes or ligaments were visible on those skeletons, but then again, the graphics of the nineties didn't allow for such levels of detail.

* ''Graveyard Shift 2: Skelly's Revenge'' has you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKmiyxVPgF0 playing as]] a milk-chugging, child-flinging, bugle-dooting skeleton. Yes, really. It is very much "Skeleton Memes: TheGame."

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Skeletal versions of Bokoblins, Moblins, and Lizalfos can pop out of the ground at random much like the Stalchildren from ''Ocarina of Time'', while the Stalnox, a skeletal Hinox, can be found as a boss monster. There's also the Stalhorse, which you can ride at night but which disintegrates like the other Stal creatures at sunrise.

* ''VideoGame/MinecraftDungeons'': The ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' skeletons are back to annoy you with their arrows. They also come in [[OurLichesAreDifferent Necromancer]] and [[EliteMooks Nameless]] [[BladeOnAStick Guard]] flavors.

** Bony Beetles are to Buzzy Beetles what Dry Bones are to Koopa Troopas. They can reassemble after being stomped, and can also collapse their skeleton exposing their sharp rib bones to defend against being stomped.

** And there's a part where Bowser gets StrippedToTheBone and reanimated as a Skeleton. ''VideoGame/MarioKartWii'' calls this "Dry Bowser".

** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', along with the introduction of the other members of the "Bones" family (Dull, Red and Dark), a BonusBoss is featured in the form of a [[{{Dracolich}} skeletal]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] named Bonetail, the [[UndeadCounterpart eldest]] [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes brother]] of Hooktail and [[PoisonousPerson Gloomtail]] residing in the bottom floor of the [[BrutalBonusLevel Pit of]] [[MarathonLevel 100 Trials]]. It is considered to be one of the game's [[SuperBoss toughest bosses]], [[MarathonBoss carrying a hit point count of 200]] and its [[BreathWeapon breath attacks]] carrying various status ailments.

* The ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'', such as ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', has it's fair share of your standard skeleton mooks, but also has a recurring BonusBoss in the form of the Sword Dancer, a large, often MultiArmedAndDangerous skeletal swordsman who [[BloodKnight lives to fight strong opponents.]]

* ''VideoGame/PrimalLight'': Skeletons are an enemy type [[PlayerCharacter Krog]] faces in the game. They bleed when struck (which shouldn't be possible, because, you know [=SKELETONS=]), and explode in a shower of bones upon defeat.