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Wizard Mode - Iron Maiden - Battle the Beast

Don't Panic Flip·video·41m 2s·analyzed·Apr 8, 2022

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TL;DR

Iron Maiden pinball stream with video game tangents and casual gameplay.

Summary

A casual streaming session of Iron Maiden pinball gameplay on Don't Panic Flip, featuring extended discussion of video games (Jump The King, Getting Over It, I Want to Be the Guy), office culture anecdotes, and tangential banter. The player navigates toward the wizard mode 'Number of the Beast' while chatting with stream viewers about frustrating games and speedruns.

Key Claims

Jump The King is a streamer joke game played when not streaming normal content, but becomes addictive.
medium confidence · Host discussing Jump The King as a borderline troll game that streamers use as filler content.
Getting Over It is a frustrating game by Bennett Foddy that uses awkward controls similar to QWOP.
high confidence · Host explaining the mechanics and difficulty of Getting Over It to stream chat.
I Want to Be the Bashi is one of the hardest games ever made and was created as a satirical joke to be harder than I Want to Be the Guy.
medium confidence · Host discussing speedrun difficulty comparisons and describing the game as bullet hell times a thousand.
Xenon is a pinball machine owned by Pinsomniac.
high confidence · Host stating Xenon ownership during gameplay commentary.
Heroes of the Storm is ranked around 50-100 on Twitch despite being a AAA game, sitting behind indie games.
medium confidence · Host discussing Twitch rankings during casual banter, noting the game's declining viewership.

Notable Quotes

“It's like playing Xenon with one foot and no hands.”
Host@ 12:35 — Humorous description of I Want to Be the Bashi's difficulty level compared to pinball.
“Getting over it is incredibly simple and insanely frustrating. That's actually the secret behind the game.”
Host@ 9:11 — Core game design observation about difficulty curve and player psychology.
“It makes Elden Ring look like cake.”
Host@ 10:48 — Comparative difficulty claim about I Want to Be the Bashi vs modern AAA games.
“This is as far as I ever wanted to make it in this game.”
Host@ 38:43 — Expression of satisfaction reaching the wizard mode 'Number of the Beast' on Iron Maiden.

Entities

Don't Panic FliporganizationBennett FoddypersonGuillermo del ToropersonDavid BowiepersonPinsomniacpersonIron MaidengameJump The KinggameGetting Over ItgameI Want to Be the GuygameI Want to Be the Bashigame

Signals

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community_signal: Active stream chat participation with viewers contributing to discussions, donations (referenced gift subs from Condales and Game Time Television), and emote usage.
high · Chat interactions throughout, acknowledgment of subscribers and donors, discussion of emotes and panic room membership.

Transcript

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Alright, I need to go after this game. You what? I need to go after this game. Okay. It's very late.

Alright, last game then. I have to be up way too early. Yeah, so by the way, I used to work with Jeff, and then he went and decided, he's like, no, I'm not working there anymore. I'm going to go work at a much better place. I'm going to make way more money. and make way more money working at this new location.

Congratulations. And I get to hear constantly about how amazing it is at this new place. And by amazing, he means it's not trash.

Just don't have high expectations with the government is all. And by don't have high expectations, you mean expect the lowest possible. So how is your summit going?

Your team building summit or whatever the hell it is. It was awesome, obviously. I'm sure. They're doing team building with 500 people. Yeah. It's a team of 500. 750. Oh my god.

Heroes of the Stormgame

Elden Ringgame

Pan's Labyrinthgame

It's a joke. 750 people in this meeting are here today I was just going to say that is a hell of a trust fall this sounds like hell like if you can imagine oh god what was the Korean TV show the Netflix TV show the one the squid game so just imagine squid game except it's 750 white people I just beat it and got to the end. Trust. Trust crowd surfing. 26 million, not bad. Yeah, it's trust crowd surfing. I like that. I don't even know 750 people anymore. Yeah, it was pretty crazy. Like, Microsoft Teams is not designed to handle 750 people. It's 750 people in a virtual meeting. It's not like, I almost said we. It's not like they're sitting in a room together. Whoa!

Woo-hey! Yeah. Teams is not capable. Like, me typing a message in Teams was... Took... To write a single sentence, there was so much delay on the keyboard, like, keeping up with what showed up on screen. It was silly. Go in any... 715 people are typing.

Oh, come on. Nice, good nudge. Wait, MXC pin. Now that Flipstream brought up the show. You said MXC, but I was thinking of MXPX for some reason. Oh, MXPX, yeah. Yeah, man, we could do like a Pennywise MXPX and... Hey!

Oh my god, he just ran in. Reboot and tag. Thank you for that raid and bringing two beautiful people over. Reboot and tag, what were you streaming? And the question for tonight is the same question as last night. If you were on Jeopardy, what category would you just destroy and completely own?

IPv6. First callback of the night. You win, sir. You win. Was streaming Jump King and Pinball Effect a re-booking bag? Hey there, pinball fanatics. It's your old pal K. Trevor Wilson here. Draw a bunch of nutsacks for watching someone play pinball on the computer. Are you kidding me? Come on. Learn a skill. I know there's a pandemic going on, but pinball? Jeez, you could be playing pinball. You're sitting there watching someone else pinball? You're like the sad guy at the bar who didn't bring any friggin' quarters. Hope you have a great day. Nice. Condales, gift against your one sub to Game Time Television, now making himself number one on the gifted subs. Thank you, Condales. That is appreciated. My hat's off to you. And Game Time Television, enjoy the emotes, the ad-free viewing, and being a part of the panic room. Serious question. What is more frustrating, Jump King or Getting Over It? What's Getting Over It?

I've heard of Jump King now. You've literally never been on Twitch, have you? I watch Heroes of the Storm and pinball on Twitch, and a lot of pinball. Is Heroes of the Storm still a game? It's ranked in the top 100 on Twitch. It's in the top 100? It's in the top 100. Mind you, this is a AAA game, AAA manufacturer, sitting in the top 100 behind every other indie game imaginable. No! And hot tubs. Pinball is at like 1100. Well, right. Heroes of the Storm, it was at like 50 somewhat recently. Yeah, I mean like Jump King, for instance, is at like 12.

Jump King is frustrating as hell. Yeah, yeah, that's what I figured. Oh, you've never heard of Getting Over It? Who makes Getting Over It? I don't know, I've never heard of it.

So I have heard that, by the way, Jump King is what streamers do when they're not streaming their normal stuff. It's like a joke. It's like a borderline troll. Pretty much. Yeah, okay.

But then it's... Then it's an insanely addicting game once you start it, because... You get all the way up there, you fall down, and it's like, I can get back. Right. But... But then you spend all night trying to get back. Yeah, you can't get back.

So... I need a browser window. Bennett Foddy makes Getting Over It is you know QWOP do you know QWOP Co-op? No QWOP I do not know QWOP Jesus this man's never been on the internet so QWOP is yes QWOP thank you QWOP is like a running game you're like a track star that runs and Q I think is your left hand W is your right hand O is your left foot and P is your right foot something like that and you have to press them to make those things move to run and as you might imagine it's the hardest thing imaginable because those letters are awkward and don't Right. Like, the timing is just terrific. So anyway, it's sort of like QWOP, except you're a guy in a... This is going to get weird. You're a guy in a medieval cauldron with a sledgehammer, and you swing the sledgehammer to throw you over objects, and there's giant cliffs that you fall down and have to start over, kind of like in Junkman.

Everyone in chat is watching you. What? I totally forgot about it. Yes, yes. Okay, now people are remembering Quapit.

Okay. Holy crap, open YouTube once in a while, George. Exactly, thank you for the stream. Getting over it is insanely frustrating. it's like you can play it a few minutes and be violently angry Bless you George, twice Thank you That was from Skeedoo Sorry, from who? Oh, from Skeedoo Oh, okay, so the co-op controls are upper and lower legs individually, so like Q is upper left. W is upper right. Something like that.

Yeah, it's super freaking hard. Although it is the most satisfying thing ever when you suddenly figure out the rhythm and you get it and you do the 100 meters in like 12 seconds. It's so, so satisfying.

Yes, getting over it is incredibly simple and insanely frustrating. That's actually the secret behind the game Is the first like Two or three minutes of getting over it Are so simple Like the learning curve is zero It's so easy You just learn to use the mouse and that's it And then from then on You literally want to smash your screen You are a glutton for punishment, Reboot.

But I will say, I have seen the speedruns of Jump King, and it's incredibly impressive. Oh no No no no Oh my ah we lost our loop jackpot That stinks

Well that's another good one, most impressive speedrun. So, if you've ever seen, um... Who Wants to Be the Guy? Or Who Wants to Be the, uh, uh, what's, um... What is your- Oh, no, sorry. I want to be the guy, or I want to be the Bashi. So I want to be the Bashi might be the most impressive speedrun I've ever seen. Or just want to be the Bashi.

I do not know what you're talking about. You should look at that game. It's probably the hardest game I've ever seen played. And people speedrun it. And it's not Elden Ring?

Oh, it makes Elden Ring look like cake. Really? Yes. Wannabe the Bashi is easily one of the hardest games ever made it was made as a satirical joke to be harder than I Wannabe the Guy and Wannabe the Guy is insanely hard and it was supposed to be unbeatable and now people speedrun it yeah, bullet hell times a thousand yeah, I mean that's a good description bullet hell and like everything kills you when you touch it and insanely fast reactions to jump scares.

How does it compare with Minecraft or Pinball? Very simple. Very, very simple. Cloudberry Kingdom speedruns. I haven't heard of those.

I imagine that must be an impressive one. Oh! Did I get it? Oh, the I want to be the guy last boss? Yeah.

Yeah, if you've enjoyed watching I want to be the guy, watch I want to be the bossy, and you'll freak out.

It's basically just unfair. It's like playing Xeon with one foot and no hands. What? It's like playing Xeon. Xenon is a pinball machine that the Pinsomniac has.

What do I need to do? Xenon is also a noble guest. That it is. We activated that way too soon. Nice. Well.

Alright, let's loop jackpot this. There you go. 27 million. We got one more. Oh, we're out of 3x, too. Darn it. That was so quick.

Power rips. Alright, so now we're in Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Ooh, that was a nice save Okay Come on, George, your PPM is awful What would Escher say?

That my PPM is awful Oh, did you see CMK's Whisper about album jukebox? About what was it? Album jukebox? I don't think so Post pass on an L1 table, need one more ramp, seven more ramps. Okay. Your balls dropped. I see that.

Nice! Alright, we're doing it all over again now. Three more rants. Alright, three more rants. Nice.

Oh no. And... Got it. Alright, so we got our soul shard and... That stinks. What do we need here? How many more? Two ramps. We need a left ramp.

Got it. All right, so now we're back into... Power ramps should be done, right? We're fine. Okay. Oh, now I actually need to hit ramps? Oh, no, I collect it by hitting the orb.

Okay, and now we've got... There. Cyborg multiball. Nice. Come on, George. Thank you. I skidoo. Yeah, it's pretty bad right now. Yep, that card is done.

What do I need? I need ramps. Yeah, install ramps. Okay, we need ramps and then orb to add a ball. I didn't need that one. Nope.

Nice try. Yeah, thank you. Good effort. Only $420 million. It's only ball two. Yeah, I know. Sorry. I know, you're like, I'm already up way too late. This is the last game. And we're going to end up going the standard stream length. I'm so sorry. Sorry.

So you are ready to start mummy multi-ball. Or sarcophagus lock, one of the two. If you can hit that mummy target. Which is the captive ball.

Good save. Nice, good nudge. There it is. You are in mummy multi-ball. Okay so in this one to get an added ball you want to hit the right and left ramps Hey Dreamboat Pinball welcome to the stream Oh, you got it. You're good. Yep.

Oh! Alright, we got this. We got this. Good morning, rainbow. Good morning. All right, Flight of the Icarus. This is the last mode.

All right, we got a ball lock. What ball lock? Oh my god, that's number one? Alright. Oh, now the ball lock is just on the right orbit?

Not good. That right orbit's a tough one. It is a little tougher. There it is. Nice. All right, ball two. We're good.

All right, the tomb is ready over here. That's not good. Five, four, three, two, one. We're good, we're good, we're fine. Okay. Sarcophagus lock, which is great. We've now lit two minutes to midnight. Nice.

Beautiful. So now we go here, grab a letter. Grab another letter. Oh my god, just... Yeah, this is a good game, Dreamboat. Alright, alright. So now we need three more letters. Let's go right ramp.

So left ramp. Great, now we're gonna go right orbit. Beautiful. And now... There we go. Two minutes to midnight. 50% of the way to the wizard mode. Nice. Phew!

Shoot lit arrows for bonus awards. Shoot all five to light super jackpot. We gotta shoot again, it's fine.

Smoking the bandit. Alright, left ramp. Time Cop? Oh, okay. Ends at a P. Poltergeist. Another T. Oh, we got Titanic already. Another C. Alright, we can hit this Advanced Revive. Clerks. Nice, good Z.

Ends in S, chat. Your turn. Titanic was Vermont. No, ends in a C. Spaceballs was a good movie, though.

Spice World. Oh, my God. Does that get kudos? There it is. That's quite a pull. Seven. Nine. Reboot, Peggy, for the follow. I got the super! Holy crap!

I'll take it. I'm taking the super. Reboot and talk. Okay. and we're out of that, so we restart here. Now I need to get the jackpots from the multiballs. So we've got to work on Mummy.

So wait, does Pan's Labyrinth count as a P, or is it just Labyrinth that it counts as an L? I don't know. Because I think the name of the movie is Labyrinth. Labyrinth? Is it Pan, like the director or writer or something? Well, it was Guillermo del Toro.

No, he did Labyrinth? Pan's Labyrinth? Yeah, that was Guillermo del Toro, right? How old is that guy?

Oh, yeah, ancient. Okay, so it's Pan's. All right. So is Pan the character Pan, the little, whatever he is, Cedar?

I haven't watched that movie since I was like eight. I don't know why I remember it so well. Alright, so we have two letters of mummy. Oh, yeah, Labyrinth is the David Bowie movie. Is Labyrinth and Pan's Labyrinth two different movies? Two different movies. I did not know that. I thought they were the same. No, Pan's Labyrinth is a Spanish movie done by Guillermo del Toro. Wait, really? Yeah.

How old is it? I don't know, like 2000-something? Oh, okay, okay. So he did not make a movie in the 80s?

Yeah, Labyrinth of David Bowie movie is the one I think. All right, got to hit that mummy target. Crap. So we are out of mummy, but we made it halfway through. That drink was too strong.

I did not get very far on the drink. But I do have to drive home. And I have to get up in six hours. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

Oh, God. It's already midnight. There we go. Okay. I just have to get the super jackpot, and then I'm three quarters of the way to the end of the game.

Remember, Chad, easy. Easy. That's the shot. I have to do right there. All right, jackpot is lit. That's way funnier than I thought Guillermo del Toro made Labyrinth. Ball subtracted.

Got it! Yes! Alright, so we're three-fourths. Where did that ball just come from What the fuck Front door All right we got three of the four right there lit We just need mummy.

It doesn't count as censoring yourself if you've already said the words. I didn't say it. Chat needs a curse jar.

A curse jar emote would actually be amazing. Pharaoh's tomb. Alright, that's number three on the Pharaoh's tomb.

Oh, was it stuck from the start of the multiball? Oh, interesting. I didn't even see it. This is how you treat all of your kids, George.

I'm so sorry! There we go. Sarcophagus lock. So now we're ready to get back into Mummy. If I can do this, I can get to the... How many times have you apologized for a good game? All the time. I'm so sorry No you don't have to It's fine Oh it's a hate you mark I was like what is that even Darn it You didn't get credit for that letter. I got credit for one of them. Yeah, but only one.

Yes, do you remember the one tilt warning you already have? All right, I've got one tilt warning. Let's hit that. Oh, that would actually be a cool tech, Dr. Curly tech, if each time you do mummy it takes more hits to get each letter.

That might be it. It might take two hits. Remember I talked about that? Double danger. Yeah, I think you might be right It flashes and then it goes solid One more, one more Yes!

Let's do it, guys! Let's do it! Whew! I always wonder how people don't get exhausted after a long ball.

You can. Whoa. That was a weird sound. That means that I got a free game. Oh, nice. He's trying to keep me here longer.

I'm so sorry. I got 188 million power. That's solid. Darn it. It's actually a remote possibility you could end up on the top three.

Really? Well, I mean, when I say that, you're more than halfway. How about that? Okay. There we go. Alright, we relit Sarcophagus. I'm struggling so hard here to spell mummy. Mummy.

800 billion. well 823 million I got it yeah and an extra ball what was interesting was through most of that ball it was only about 25 million and then all of a sudden it was like 400 million

my inner George mind reading is guessing he's saying be quiet stop talking to me I'm trying to focus here not the case at all he tunes me out for the most part no no no yeah that's what I'm thinking LFT Dave like he could replace Etcher's one of Etcher's squatters up there I could totally jinx this too we're fine here we're so fine everything's fine we don't talk about scores or Bruno or nope not gonna say it That's so fast! No! No, no, no. We're going to calm that down.

Think about a delicious egg. Alright, we got a jackpot. 40 million. But Grand Thirst Hammer was a save. Oh my god, we got mummy. That's it. Oh my god. We just have to not drain out. And we've got number of the beast. We have all four.

Drain. Really? Yep, all the cards. Yes! Oh my god, thank you! I want a high five, I'm getting it. Number of the beast, shoot red arrows. Man Adams, if you're on, I'm good. This is as far as I ever wanted to make it in this game.

This is definitely a let's go moment. Is it a billion? I was... Did we crack a bill, please? I think you did. Please?

No. Hey, it's your turn. Yes! Thank you, Dr. Curly Tech and Draymo and everybody. Yes!