# Iron Maiden Pinball Vault Celebration Stream **Source:** Stern Pinball **Type:** video **Published:** 2025-06-22 **Duration:** 55m 53s **Beat:** Pinball **URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBO6KSAd4mI --- ## Analysis Stern Pinball's official vault celebration stream for Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast features Joe Margefield, Keith Elwin, Jack Danger, and Zach Sharp playing and discussing the game's rules, modes, and design philosophy. The stream showcases various game modes including Fear the Dark, Cyborg Multiball, and the wizard mode 'Battle the Beast,' with commentary on mode difficulty, shot design, and competitive gameplay strategies. ### Key Claims - [HIGH] Iron Maiden is Keith Elwin's second game design at Stern — _Keith states 'This is like This is my second game. Oh, really? Yeah' when discussing his design history_ - [HIGH] Iron Maiden was the game that started it all for 'team rookies' including Garrison Drake, Rick Nagel, and Keith Bell — _Joe states 'This was the game that started it all for team rookies. Garrison Drake, Rick Nagel, and Keith Bell'_ - [HIGH] A Premium-exclusive mode was later made available on Pro tier — _Keith explains 'This was a mode that was only available in the Premium. You're very kind. Rick was very kind to where this is now available on the Pro which is kind of open'_ - [HIGH] Keith Elwin designed six additional game designs after finishing Iron Maiden's initial design before the game hit market — _Keith recalls: 'I just remembered I finished the design and I was like, Okay, now what? And so, okay, I'm just going to start designing a bunch more designs. So, I designed like six more designs by the time this actually hit the market'_ - [HIGH] Current designer workload involves continuous support for existing games, limiting new design time — _Keith notes: 'Right now, every time I release a game, there's two games behind it. I need updates, re-releases, code updates'_ ### Notable Quotes > "This is my second game. Oh, really? Yeah." > — **Keith Elwin**, ~mid-stream > _Clarifies Keith Elwin's design history at Stern; Iron Maiden is his second title as designer_ > "I just remembered I finished the design and I was like, 'Okay, now what?' And so, okay, I'm just going to start designing a bunch more designs. So, I designed like six more designs by the time this actually hit the market." > — **Keith Elwin**, ~mid-stream > _Reveals design pipeline history and early career capacity before ongoing support obligations_ > "Right now, every time I release a game, there's two games behind it. I need updates, re-releases, code updates." > — **Keith Elwin**, ~mid-stream > _Demonstrates current workload constraints at Stern limiting new design capacity_ > "This was a mode that was only available in the Premium. You're very kind. Rick was very kind to where this is now available on the Pro which is kind of open." > — **Keith Elwin**, ~mid-stream > _Indicates post-release feature democratization from Premium to Pro tier, showing design flexibility_ > "What I love about this just from like a competitive standpoint is you're never out of it. You can blow up any one thing." > — **Jack Danger**, ~late-stream > _Highlights competitive design philosophy where any mode can swing the game state dramatically_ ### Entities | Name | Type | Context | |------|------|---------| | Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast | game | Stern Pinball machine being celebrated; designed by Keith Elwin (second game), Garrison Drake, Rick Nagel, and Keith Bell | | Keith Elwin | person | Legendary Stern designer; participant in vault stream; confirmed Iron Maiden is his second game; discusses design philosophy and current workload | | Jack Danger | person | Pinball designer and content creator; participant in vault stream; provides competitive gameplay analysis | | Joe Margefield | person | Stern Pinball representative; host of vault celebration stream | | Zach Sharp | person | Participant in vault celebration stream; plays Iron Maiden on stream | | Garrison Drake | person | Co-designer of Iron Maiden (part of 'team rookies') | | Rick Nagel | person | Co-designer of Iron Maiden (part of 'team rookies') | | Keith Bell | person | Co-designer of Iron Maiden (part of 'team rookies') | | Stern Pinball | company | Manufacturer hosting vault celebration stream; Keith Elwin works as designer | ### Topics - **Primary:** Game mode design and rules complexity, Competitive pinball gameplay strategies - **Secondary:** Designer workload and production pipeline constraints, Post-release feature updates and tier democratization, Community engagement through official streams ### Sentiment **Positive** (0.85) — Stream demonstrates enthusiastic community celebration of Iron Maiden pinball. Designers and players express genuine enjoyment of game mechanics, rules depth, and competitive potential. Keith Elwin's nostalgia about early design freedom contrasts positively with current constraints. No criticism or controversy evident. ### Signals - **[community_signal]** Stern engaging community through in-depth gameplay analysis and designer commentary on vault celebration streams (confidence: high) — Multi-hour stream with designers explaining mode mechanics, shot design, competitive strategy, and design philosophy live - **[event_signal]** Stern hosting official vault celebration stream with designers and pro players discussing Iron Maiden pinball (confidence: high) — Stream title 'Iron Maiden Pinball Vault Celebration Stream' featuring Joe Margefield, Keith Elwin, Jack Danger, and Zach Sharp playing and analyzing the game - **[design_philosophy]** Competitive game design prioritizes no-lead-safety and come-back potential in mode stacking and multiball (confidence: high) — Jack Danger: 'What I love about this just from like a competitive standpoint is you're never out of it. You can blow up any one thing' - **[personnel_signal]** Keith Elwin is legendary designer who joined Stern early in career; Iron Maiden is his second game (confidence: high) — Keith confirms 'This is like This is my second game' during stream discussion - **[product_strategy]** Post-release code update democratized Premium-exclusive mode to Pro tier (confidence: high) — Keith Elwin confirms: 'This was a mode that was only available in the Premium... Rick was very kind to where this is now available on the Pro' --- ## Transcript Heat. Heat. Hey everybody, it's Joe Margefield at Stern Pinball. I'm here with Keith Owen, Jack Danger, and Zach Sharpe. We're here in front of Iron Maiden's Legacy of the Beast Pinball. This is a celebration vault stream. Here we go. I am not playing first. I'm hoping one of us will get the special uh Keith animation in the background. Clearly in the dark. That was the only animation. Enemy light battle. Oh no. Music to my pointy ears. All right, I got this. Hi. Uh, let's do a mode. All right. I want Yeah. Give it to me, baby. This game is like buzzing. Remember when we streamed this but didn't record it, dude. Oh, yeah. It we streamed this game a freaking lifetime ago. Okay, I'm shooting the loneliness of the distance. Oh, but I'm beating Zach Sharpe, so that's all. One and done. One and done. Oh, Joe's stepping up. You know, you got to wrap it up. Shoot my arrows to summon Doing no trap today. Commanding lead playing raw like that. I can appreciate this begin. This is too much. You better hope that would be my luck. My first piece of balls. Shame on all of us. None of us. My bad. I kind of set the tone. I know. I know. I blame myself. I will collect it. Quite the lifegiver. Five lock. I have like nine different insider accounts so I can uh play without people watching what I'm doing I'm trying to keep my bra. is lit. Shoot the orbits of the ancient mariner. that you're born with. You can add a ball whenever you want. Is that right? Is that right? Yeah. How close game is like seven years old tonight? There it is. in behind the drop. Gary's house if you dare. Oh my god. So you have to make solid all the little orange X's to light the in get the key back. Well the allar fear the dark set at 25%. Oh so one in four of the math is rich programmed it right. I want to let her be a mode with a multiball. And with the dark, you shoot any of those purple arrows, it lights your spinner. Do that sequence three times, you'll let a gold star up the middle. Definitely talk to these legacy games. The rules to do stuff. Don't [ __ ] stop power Load the cannon. Keith, have you played this ever with this insider account? Uh, probably. Mine at home does not have it. Nor is mine at home even set up. Not to say I don't like the game. I actually really do. You know when you work on a game for years I mean you had worked on this game long before this was this game what the heck a cheeky 28 So that replay animation is actually the entire design team. Oh, really? I can't tell, but that's cool. Yeah. 10 minutes later and we're all What a This was the game that started it all for team rookies. Garrison Drake, Rick Nagel, and Keith Bell. I think they've made a few good games ever. The dark if you dare. All right. Well, I've got a free fear of the dark. I haven't I haven't played a login, bro. Nope. Nope. Piece is near. You can't choose. Yeah. The volume is not lit. Once it's lit, you can't lock. You don't have much time. Mommy, Oh yes, hold on. Look at my step on step on producer. All right, here we go. I honestly I appreciate I appreciate the shooting dynamical this one. There he is. Thank you. Level one. Time extended. Time extended. Use the ball to break the bars. Oh, it's the drops. I need It's almost like five. Oh, what the heck was that? Oh, you couldn't have kissed it. You Oh, yeah. Did I get it? Good try. A lot of wood chopper little. Yeah, my flip per point uh ratio there were not. Look at all those. Thank you. I appreciate three. You're up if you dare. Pharaoh's tomb treasure. Okay. Be thy name. Okay. Is it Giving up already. 5 4 3 2 1 up here in the dark. Lock is lost the ball. Have we great start to treasure shooting the sarcophagus to open Pharaoh's tomb? Not a big All different my favorite. I'm going to select it right now. No two. Batman. Oh, I think I had to change my song. Power slave. Power Oh, yeah. Was it like 8 minutes long? 13. Oh. Tell me. And 2x soulshard or not soul shard queen. Man or god you die. All right, I am going to live and die on this. I am not going to cap out. I'm literally going to until I die. Yep. I'm not going to catch up. I am just going to fly too close to the side. Don't you dare shoot up the middle. I'm not catching up. That was an old man dream but saved miraculously. You don't have I don't care if I don't have enough time. I'm gonna keep going like this. just so I can get a little achievement. The soul shard is mine. Oh yeah. Choose the right or treasure. All right, since both of you failed at Hollow, it's time to do it. Let's see it. multiplied always make it 5:00. No, wait. Let me just hold the flipper. Should Should kiss it. Come on. Otherwise, it was designed poorly. And then throw it right up the middle. Settle down. Settle down. I was going to say and I we've had some decent medals on this throughout the years. Not going to lie, both. Yeah. The final Illinois State Championship. Yeah. I don't remember. Oh, I forgot you did. This was a mode that was only available in the premium. You're very kind. Rick was very kind to where this is now available on the pro which is kind of open. So this one, your flippers change the order of the light. So you'll see the red kind of cycling around. So you can kind of plan out where your shots are going to go. But during this mode, as much as like you can kind of keep playing and adding balls and getting points, I'm going to try to make progress on my cyborgs, which is the power pyramid, whatever you want to call it. And I really don't want to lose my outing also. Wow. And I can even try to build up my So, you're saying this mode's not fun cuz you're doing everything else in the motor. Well, I was trying to be greedy. I was Now I know why I didn't put it in the I was going to try to get 3x to bring into It's a vessel for other things. Nobody wants to cyborg. Oh, no. Wait. Yeah. Should be. This is my son's favorite song mode because he likes to dance. So with this mode, I like dancing. He's a fun Eddie. So this one, you want to hit every main shot once and when it gets solid here in the middle, then it'll let your cyborg jackpot. If I can hit the the hardest one is definitely the ramp always. And wow. I know. I'm I'm hitting it too well. I'm hitting the ramp shot too well. Usually when I This is a dedicated shot for the pop. So or left spinner or I like to just Hey, there you go. And then it adds a ball. Well, I think you can do it twice. I believe that's the amount of you can do it. Yeah, maybe three. Again, my memory is all crazy, too. Shoot me all. Oh, and then this is actually deceptively easy back in this, but not deceptive. Deceptively easy. Deceptively. Yep. Just came for lunch. So, we don't believe there. All last for a little swing. Oh yeah, that's right. It's almost like an L1 but not. There we go. Yeah. So, no more edible. So, now you need to get into your your uh Eddies, your level one card, your level two cards. So, if you get to buy Cyborg, you will get this level two Eddie to battle the beast. Now, with no extra balls, then we're not going to get under, but you better believe I'm going to try, LG get up. Nope. Bye-bye. Oh, getting Byebye. Oh, great. Great spirit. Wait, hold on. Come on. Come on, Rick. Come on, Rick. Yes. No. No. Did it not? That's all right. You know what? We're starting the same. All right, Steve. You wanted the full ancient or run of the ancient American I Jackpot. Complete stars tonight. then now when I get out of this multiball I will have a soul shard. I don't want to be dangerous. Soul shard is soul shard collected. Uhoh. Orbit. All right. case as high as left and then I can get to 2 minutes of midnight. Oh, for the combo. Yeah. Yeah. It It's a six six way, which also gets you a two treasure lit. All right, let's have a It's better than the 2 million first mummy multiball that I had 8 years ago. So, this you light your jackpot by um switch it. So, spinners are your friend on this one. Oh, and jackpot. Why not? Let's go. I know. All right. 5 minutes later. Yeah. Why do I just want a shirt? I think uh Oh, you are wearing your maiden shirt. Uh, this is exciting, but I'm going to skip these if that's okay. All right. Nice. Nice bonus. All right. Slip. What is your favorite sign in your first date? Um I I know so long ago you're home, right? I just remembered I finished the design and I was like, "Okay, now what?" And so, okay, I'm just going to start designing a bunch more designs. So, I designed like six more designs by the time this actually hit the market. That's my biggest having 12 games under your belt before your first game came out. Cuz when you're not supporting your older games Yeah. Right. Yeah. You got you got time. You got time. Like right now, every time I release a game, there's two games behind it. I need updates, re-releases, code updates. So, I didn't realize how good I had it. Chill out, work on CAD all day. I'm running on purpose internet. I'm running on purpose. Okay, so we need Joe's like, "How do I turn this game off right now?" Okay, I need that ramp. All right. So, I have a I have a I have another multiball already. You actually have two. I need arrows to treasure. I need a quick 30 million. And I started a multi. Okay, my bad. You can get Icorus with arguably. Oh, yeah. Like I said, these older games asking rules knowledge. I love that you're calling this an older game. We met before you started working. Yeah, right. This is like This is my second game. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't know. For my first holy ball. What does an extra ball do for me financially? I don't know. 15. No idea. It's point. There's some point value associated in a really big point. It is actually pretty cool. My son actually find I don't know if that's a good thing or fire. You let your kids play pinball. What are you doing? I know it's ketchup, man. It sure is, son. Rubber knife. Ketchup is a rubber knot. Oh, you okay? This game's too easy. No, this game's just way too long. Way too long. Yeah, we just give him the money and get out of here. Oh, [ __ ] No shark for me. Orbit forever. 2x. Oh, I accidentally hit my 2x dingong. There we go. I didn't start. Let me All right. Good. I did. You had rhymes. It wasn't Yeah, it wasn't the stack we were hoping for. So, what are you doing, Mommy? You want to So when you got the ball flashing, you're going to make progress on getting in and out. That will be solid. It hit a little bit harder. Still hard. But those flashing yellow shots around the play will add a ball and you can actually add balls indefinitely, but it gets harder. So start only two shots to add your first and then three shots and four five. Oh, okay. And on the premium you can actually 10 15 seconds. As you're getting your mummy letters, spinners are your friend. Right now you have a mummy letter for jackpot. We get all the letters. It will let a super up the middle on the bolt. You get that, you will get a level one mummy card to battle the beast. If you get through and you get a super jackpot a second time to treasure level two, you got all of them asking which character to pick on Star Wars. Walk away. It's Leia Ala. All right. All right, hit the post. Oh, all right. We want to shoot up the middle to get a mode going. Probably can't shoot up the middle from the upper. That'll do. So, we want to get the ball back up that ramp ASAP. There it is. And you shoot the orb, you will get orb target like that. Up this thing. Appreciate the help, coach. taught me everything I know. Very true. You You're in the depth crew. My babies are mine. Get everything. So if you shoot that power jackpot, you're going to get a step closer. Power jackpot being the organo target. Is that what you call it? Technically, completed. Oh, dude. It's deceptively easy from the back. You got two. Oh. Jack, please start the mode cuz you're our last hope. It's through the dark. Please keep the dark. Please break. No, not this time, folks. He took it out of the game. It's okay. Use your imagination. He keeps running in the wilderness. It's a pretty great animation. It's fantastic. So, I need to hit a spinner. Yeah. See the spinner? Either or. So, left one is actually worth more. If you want to get dangerous, shoot that middle spinner on the fly. Try to shoot the bottom spinner. It's huge for extremely dangerous. But I think your last name is dangerous. It's Dangler actually. Sorry. All right. 30 million. You know, if there was live betting on the ball, you were you were in the house getting pretty Hello. Oh, actually, you have fear of the dark. You're our last. I just got to see a couple more white arrows. I'll tell you more. Oh, the middle. Oh, start it. Okay. No, cuz he has a lot. So, just whatever you do, don't double drain. We We need to see this mode. No. You want to shoot the L? But whatever you do, don't double. No pressure. No. All right. Use your imagination. He starts feeling. What I love about this just from like a competitive standpoint is you're never out of it. You can blow up any one thing. Like he can pull off 300 million aces high if he just like rips us away or you know billion trooper multiball. I remember for a time there people were competing to do this like super thing. All right, now it's a rolling jackpot. If he does this and shoots it up the middle, he will qualify completed. The ball just sort of like what is the drum card? There we go. Now he's qualified to score. He's got two going. We don't care about the stock ball. We just keep playing for good. Just leave. Can I get a kitty over here? We'll start complaining if you get closer. You know what? He designed it. You know, this is a celebration. We're not going to take this away and see. Oh, get that. Oh, I thought you were going to get the power jackpot with that 2X going. Pedestrian 16 We are in trouble. He wants to get real greedy. React to 3x. Soul shard. Soul shard collected. Pharaoh's tomb treasure. Shoot the light orbit. What's the move that we were just talking about? You know what? I would use this as a utility ball. Get your revive. Power ramps, too. Yep. Still start. Get your revive and your ramp. You can do a 3x. Oh, he both at the same time. That was That was pretty troll. That was a good power. Yeah, 13 million. Like I said, no lead is safe on this game. Revive is lit. Oh, no you don't. Never mind. You got All right. You got it 3x for about like 10 seconds. So, maximize. I can hit the Xbox. Does it do it during cyborg? I'm going to argue on that. Okay. I have that as well. If you have to bring in the playfield X while you're in here, you can't make progress. and congrats on your videos. So, as you can see, he's making progress on his number of the beast. So, when you collect level one Eddie cards, so you get a a trooper super a mummy super, you do a cyborn multiball and you get 2 minutes to midnight, then you'll battle the beast. All right. And add a ball on that or gracious. It's out of my way. Balls. The easiest shot in the game. Oh, it's the hyper side. I didn't even know there was names for these different cyborgs. Like I can't let a shark win. Second place for you. No, that's only a plus. You're like, remember, man, this thing was actually pretty, as the kids these days say, it rips. It rips. There we go. hours of internet. I got a solid 100 power swings might might do the trick for me. All the kids out here, man. play of victory. Hey, you win. You win. Get off this trajectory. Yeah, that was awesome. Boop. I'm assuming we'll probably do some of that. Fight the ball. Let's see. That's true. Player one wearing the theme appropriate uh launch party shirt that he's goi. Good job, Zach. Thank you. Player four are not bad. What's it going to say? You suck. You suck. Wait, is it going to say it when I do it, too? Oh, I don't get so many problems like that. Um, heck yeah it is. Thanks for joining us everybody. Right off camera. We'll see you out there. Run to the _(Acquisition: youtube_auto_sub, Enrichment: v3)_ --- *Exported from Journalist Tool on 2026-04-13 | Item ID: 8bf03df3-6450-4091-a58e-6ca36d367b1b*