Digital Pictures

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Digital Pictures was a video game developing company, founded by Tom Zito.

The company is credited for pushing forward the use of live actors and interactive full motion video in videogames during the early to mid 1990s. Notably, Tom Zito and associates came under fire from numerous interest groups and Senators Joseph Lieberman and Herbert Kohl in 1993 after the release of Night Trap, which ultimately resulted in the conception of the ESRB videogame rating system, along with Midway's Mortal Kombat.

Several popular actors, including Mark Wahlberg, Steve Eastin, and Dana Plato, have appeared in Digital Pictures games.

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Further information: Game Over (film)

In 2003, footage from five Digital Pictures (Maximum Surge, Corpse Killer, Prize Fighter, Supreme Warrior, and Quarterback Attack) was combined with original footage to create the direct to video film Game Over. It is also known as Maximum Surge Movie.

Although the film boasted stars such as Yasmine Bleeth and Walter Koenig, in fact they actually only appeared in the segments pulled from the original games's FMV sequences, which themselves were easily spotted due to their varying image quality.

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On the Sega CD versions of certain games, if they are played on the systems "audio CD" mode, there is a short track of a phone ringing with a male voice answering "Good afternoon, Digital Pictures", followed by a backwards playback of several voices saying "number nine" ("enin rebmun"), a reference to The Beatles song Revolution 9. The message is a hint for Sewer Shark if the player turns left (referred to as "niner" in the game) three times the player will not hit a wall.