In 1988, Epyx announced three VCR games including one based on its video game "California Games". They combined videotape footage with a board game. In the late 1980s, American Laser Games started to produce a wide variety of live-action light gun laserdisc video games, which played much like the early cartoon games, but used a light gun instead of a joystick to affect the action. Meanwhile, Digital Pictures started to produce a variety of interactive movies for home consoles. When CD-ROMs were embedded in home computers, games with live action and full motion video featuring actors were considered cutting-edge, and some interactive movies were made. Some notable adventure games from this era are "Under a Killing Moon", "The Pandora Directive", ', "Voyeur", ', ', "Ripper", "Snatcher", "Black Dahlia", "The X-Files Game", "Phantasmagoria", "Bad Day on the Midway" and "The Dark Eye". Others in the action genre are "Brain Dead 13" and '.