Abandonware Anomalies | Iron Maiden's Ed Hunter

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Osamu Sato - Funky Solution
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc - The Hoodoo Sorcerer
Welcome to the first episode of Abandonware Anomalies, a new series where I dive in and talk about the most interesting forgotten games of yesteryear. To starts things off, I'll be talking about the curious case of Ed Hunter. Iron Maiden's very first video game released in 1999 that was bundled with a best hits album of the same name. This is a game that every Maiden fan is aware of, despite the fact that they might've never even played it before which includes myself. Yet they choose to act like it never even happened, why? Because quite frankly it's just not very good.
No lie, I was planning on making this video much much later but after doing that little intro just on my own free time for the fun of it, this really clicked with me and I went ahead and finished it earlier than I originally planned. It's definitely not perfect but I'm super happy with how this turned out and I'm honestly really excited to continue this series.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:34 - Development/ The Cancellation Of MELT
5:04 - The Game
12:11 - The Soundtrack
14:37 - Conclusion/ The Fate Of The Beast
Tamaracade's video about MELT
• Melt: The Lost Iron Ma...

[@atomicpunch1990]

Interesting Idea for future videos. Would certainly watch the shit out of each and every one of them ! Rock On Skully Dude!!!

[@danhalencool]

Thank you! I defo want to continue doing these because this was very fun to make and there's a lot of abandonware games that I'm very excited to try out.

[@MegaMicah12]

Ahh yes, this game. I've been very curious about this and I'm happy you are covering it.

[@danhalencool]

"Ahh yes, this game" I feel like sums up everyone's reaction to Ed Hunter lol. It's just something that happened in Maidens career and was quickly forgotten about, only to be randomly brought up every once in a while. Thanks for the comment man!

[@atomicpunch1990]

For Goth and Bone!

[@turttleslovepotatos]

Id be Curious if theres a way to get the games asset files, ive been interested in seeing how the game was created with level models and character details. Always loves thia game and would love to dig deeper i to it!

[@casual_villain]

You know what would be great? If someone recreated this as a Doom wad! That would be awesome!

[@danhalencool]

YES! A small part I cut out of this videos script was me talking about how cool it'd be if Iron Maiden teamed up with Id, Apogee, or Monolith and made a doom clone. Honestly wouldn't even care if it would turn out to be a full on doom copy and paste, just the very idea of it sounds awesome and I think it was huge missed opportunity for them to do an on rail shooter instead during a time when FPS games were kind of at there peak. Small bit of wishful thinking but Eddie is just too good of a mascot to have such poor video game representation.

[@user-ng9gd4vl9s]

I spent 30 quid on this in 2001. It's a glorified compilation album

[@danhalencool]

Oof at the very least it's a bit of a collectors item now.

[@user-ng9gd4vl9s]

@Nekrogoth its probably still in me mums cd rack!