History VideoGame / SkeletonKrew

''Skeleton Krew'' is a 1995 RunAndGun action game developed and published by Creator/CoreDesign for the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} and [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Sega Mega Drive]].

''Skeleton Krew'' is a 1995 RunAndGun action game developed by the [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Sega Mega Drive]].

In the year of [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2062]], a mutation outbreak had occurred in a futuristic prison owned by the DEAD Inc. (Deadly Enforcement Aggressive Destruction), after it's owner, the former mortician Dr. Moribund Kadaver, took over control of a cryogenics plant into converting prisoners to Psykogenix mutants.
A team of mercenaries, the titular Skeleton Krew, are sent into the prison to deal with the mutant infestation, consisting of the three playable heroes:

!! ''Skeleton Krew'' kontain examples of the following:

* AirAidedAcrobatics: The Venus stage have areas with large vents in the floors that's constantly blowing air, that you can use to float for several seconds to access hard-to-reach ledges, avoid getting shot, or launch yourself to nearby platforms.
* AirborneMooks: The level on a descending platform in a deep shaft have you being attacked by JetPack mutants from all sides, which you need to fend off until reaching it's bottom.

* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: The prison cells have a recurring enemy in the prisons, showing as fleshy tentacles sticking out of walls and floors lashing out as you tries passing. These tentacles can be killed, but you don't see what they're attached to.
* BottomlessMagazines: Your default blaster that you can fire on full auto never runs out of bullets. Or needs to be reloaded.

* ElevatorActionSequence: "Elevator Shaft" have you making your way to the prison's descending elevator platform, with it's second half have you fighting enemies left and right until reaching the level's bottom floor.

* ExcessiveSteamSyndrome: There are various areas in the prisons and on Mars where vents, pipes and grates will constantly spew bursts of steams, which will cause damage to the players' health when they're attempting to cross an area.
* FlashOfPain: Subverted with certain obstacles moving along a set path, that displays the same flash that enemies did when shot. However, those obstacles are really indestructible, and the flash is meaningless in their case.
* GrenadeLauncher: One of the guns you can collect, that sends a bouncing projectile that does more damage than your usual firearms. It's also useful for taking out enemies behind barricades, obstacles or on platforms right below you.
* HuskyRusskie: Ygor, the Russian player character, is larger than the other two heroes combined, and a MightyGlacier who wielding a BFG and specializing in using explosive projectiles as well as being capable of taking more damage.

* LethalLavaLand: "Mars" have an underground cavern filled with streams of lava above platforms and bridges, which proves hazardous should you fall into. There are also craters that spew balls of lava at you periodically.

* {{Mutants}}: The assorted humanoid mooks you fight throughout, called "Psykogenix mutants", where they [[WasOnceAMan used to be human prisoners]] until they're converted by Moribund Kadaver's experiments.

** In the first fight, he reveals his ability to TeleportSpam all over the area and fire {{Hand Blast}}s on you (either a string of projectiles or a SpreadShot). You battle him and cause enough damage to smash him through a wall…
** … and in the next immediate area, Dr. Moribund bursts through a wall in his OneWingedAngel form - a giant crab-like creature with two ''human hands'' in place of legs, with his [[TinyHeadedBehemoth puny human head]] in a giant monster's body. Defeat him and he dissappears into the darkness...
** … and returns in a ''larger'' mutant body! But this time shooting him enough will [[AnArmAndALeg sever his limbs]] and put him down for good.
* ShootingTheSwarm: The sewer stage have areas which dispense swarms of blue flying bugs, coming at you in large numbers that you can shoot at. Alternatively, you can just flee - the bugs' only attack is by exploding themselves, and they blow up on their own after a short while.
* StationaryBoss: When you reach the bottom of the shaft, you'll need to fight a boss which is a giant purple organic face in a wall. It's incapable of moving, but can sic [[CreepyCentipedes giant centipedes]] that swims towards you until you destroy the boss.

** On the above poster, Ygor a.k.a Joint has a disproportionally tiny head compared to the rest of his ''huge'' body. It's not that obvious in the game however because of graphic limitations in 1995.

* WaddlingHead: one of the creepier mutant enemies you can encounter near the end are giant red skulls on spider-legs, which crawls all over the place while shooting projectiles from their mouths.

In the futuristic year of [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2062]], a mutation outbreak had occurred in a futuristic prison owned by the DEAD Inc. (Deadly Enforcement Aggressive Destruction), after it's owner, the former mortician Dr. Moribund Kadaver, took over control of a cryogenics plant into converting prisoners to Psykogenix mutants.

Don't confuse this with [[SkeletonCrew a trope]] or [[Literature/SkeletonCree a novel]].

* AllThereInTheManual: There's a game manual that explains the game's (more or less) ExcusePlot: that the main villain, Dr. Moribund Kadaver, used to be a mortician before becoming the leader of DEAD. Inc, who took over the cryogenics plant in the prison with the aim of turning prisoners into mutants. Said manual also explains the three playable heroes, Marlon, Barbella and Ygor are {{cyborg}} {{Super Soldier}}s whose upper bodies are entirely mechanical after being put through upgrades, which is the reason behind their durability compared to the mutants and monsters.

* AllThereinTheManual: There's a game manual that explains the game's (more or less) ExcusePlot: that the main villain, Dr. Moribund Kadaver, used to be a mortician before becoming the leader of DEAD. Inc, who took over the cryogenics plant in the prison with the aim of turning prisoners into mutants. Said manual also explains the three playable heroes, Marlon, Barbella and Ygor are {{cyborg}} {{Super Soldier}}s whose upper bodies are entirely mechanical after being put through upgrades, which is the reason behind their durability compared to the mutants and monsters.