Digital Pictures

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Digital Pictures was a video game company founded in 1991 by Tom Zito and Ken Melville, and collapsed by the end of the decade. Today they are most well-known for their library of Full Motion Video games released on the Sega CD.

Whilst their games make up a sizable amount of the Sega CD's library, several of them were ported over to the 3DO and Sega Saturn. However, their first efforts were originally designed in the 80's for Hasbro's abandoned NEMO console; the assets would later be dug up and used for their Sega CD games.

Games developed include:

• Corpse Killer
• Night Trap
• Sewer Shark
• Make My Video series
• Ground Zero Texas
• Slam City
• Double Switch
• Quarterback Attack
• Supreme Warrior
• Kids on Site
• Midnight Raiders
• Prize Fighter
• Citizen X (unfinished)

Tropes applied to the company and their output;

• Ham and Cheese: Most of the actors hired by Digital Pictures for their games.
  • Hey, It's That Guy!: Some of the actors are quite well-known, including Dana Plato and Mark Wahlberg.
• The New Rock and Roll: Night Trap attracted controversy alongside Mortal Kombat and Doom for supposedly promoting adult content and graphic violence to minors, eventually forming the ESRB.
• Rail Shooter: Corpse Killer and Sewer Shark.
• So Bad It's Good: Even though the gameplay for most of their titles is limited, their infamously cheesy cutscenes will most likely make you laugh.
• Stock Footage: The footage for Night Trap was filmed in the 80's, but was stored in a vault until being used for the Sega CD.
  • Public domain stock footage is used extensively in Make My Video.
  • A 2003 TV movie called Maximum Surge (also known on video as Game Over) used about 35 minutes of stock footage from no less than five Digital Pictures games.
• Totally Radical: Especially Make My Video.