ScummVM just unholstered one of arcade FMV’s loudest relics. Mad Dog McCree is now playable, along with six other American Laser Games shooters, in the latest development builds of the emulator. That means the infamous live‑action cowboy rail shooter, once chained to creaky laserdisc cabinets and awkward home ports, now runs with the same crowd as Monkey Island and Broken Sword.
The new engine targets the DOS versions of American Laser Games titles, bringing in Crime Patrol, Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars, The Last Bounty Hunter, Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold, Space Pirates, and Who Shot Johnny Rock? alongside Mad Dog McCree itself. Support is already flagged as “Good” on ScummVM’s dev compatibility charts, which means you can play them through with only minor quirks rather than the occasional crash on scene change experience you might expect from a 30‑year‑old FMV.
Until now, revisiting these games meant hunting down old PC releases and dealing with janky console ports and iffy light‑gun solutions. Now, a mouse, stick, or touchscreen is more than enough to fake the original quick‑draw mechanics. This all comes hot on the heels of ScummVM’s recent growth spurt: the 2026.1.0 release already crammed in roughly 200 new supported titles across a dozen engines, and this FMV batch feels like a dessert course nobody expected.
There’s still a catch: you need legal copies of the DOS data files, and those aren’t exactly lining the shelves at GameStop, but the American Laser Games catalog isn’t completely unobtainable on the second‑hand market yet. Given how fragile old FMV hardware and software can be, pulling these into an actively maintained preservation project is as close to future‑proofing as they’re likely to get.
Will you be playing any of these titles, or the other 200-plus games that have recently been marked as supported? Let us know in the comments below!
Source: ScummVM
