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Iron Maiden Virtual Time VPX

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·35m 19s·analyzed·Nov 18, 2020
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TL;DR

Jon plays Iron Maiden VPX mod by Frank, praising artwork and complex mechanics.

Summary

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host Jon plays through an Iron Maiden VPX (virtual pinball) mod created by Frank, showcasing the table's mechanics, artwork, modes, and difficulty. The stream features gameplay commentary, discussion of the mod's design features (including flipper codes and Easter eggs), and comparisons to classic pinball tables. Jon expresses enthusiasm for the mod's quality and encourages viewers to download it.

Key Claims

  • Frank created an Iron Maiden VPX mod with custom artwork and mechanics

    high confidence · Directly stated by Jon throughout the stream; Frank is present and confirms details

  • The mod includes features inspired by other classic tables (Tommy flipper cover mechanic, etc.)

    high confidence · Jon observes and comments on specific mechanical features during gameplay

  • The mod contains flipper codes that can be accessed by players

    high confidence · Jon mentions 'flipper codes' multiple times and references a YouTube video Frank created showing them

  • Jon previously broke the Diablo VPX table with such a high score that Ultra DMD couldn't display it

    high confidence · Jon states this directly: 'I broke Diablo. I play Diablo... the number was too high and it was like, I can't compute that'

  • The Iron Maiden mod has a 'Fear the Dark' mode with special rules that punish cradling by auto-flipping

    high confidence · Jon experiences this mechanic multiple times during gameplay and Frank confirms it

Notable Quotes

  • “This part of the stream will probably not make it to YouTube because it's copyright violations all over the freaking place.”

    Jon (Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 host)@ 0:38 — Indicates awareness of Iron Maiden music/IP copyright issues in the mod

  • “Frank, you need to be doing playfields. You need to be doing playfields. This is not your day job. Somebody needs to go send Sam Stern a message.”

    Jon@ 10:01 — High praise for Frank's artwork quality; suggestion that he should work professionally for Stern Pinball

  • “This game is finished. Want one more?”

    Frank@ 5:17 — Indicates the mod is complete and ready for public use

  • “Jon, hey, if you cradle during Fear the Dark, we're going to flip for you.”

    Frank@ 12:48 — Explains the anti-cradling mechanic in the mod

  • “A high score is a high score. VR or no.”

    Frank (chat response)@ 19:12 — Frank's pragmatic stance on score validity regardless of platform

  • “Download this table because it's awesome.”

    Jon@ 24:40 — Direct call-to-action for viewers to download the mod

Entities

JonpersonFrankpersonMystery Pinball Theater 3000organizationIron MaidengameLaser WargameDiablogameTommygameSam Sternperson

Signals

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    community_signal: VP Fiends community actively competes on VPX leaderboards and shares high scores in Discord

    high · Jon references posting scores to Discord and calls out specific players to compete on the table

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Frank intentionally incorporated mechanics and inspiration from classic pinball tables (Tommy flipper cover, etc.) into Iron Maiden VPX

    high · Jon observes: 'They literally like grab a bunch of neat stuff from different tables and threw them in here'

  • ?

    community_signal: Frank (Iron Maiden VPX creator) is suggested by Jon as having professional-quality playfield design skills worthy of Stern Pinball employment

    medium · Jon: 'Frank, you need to be doing playfields... Somebody needs to go send Sam Stern a message'

  • ?

    announcement: Iron Maiden VPX mod by Frank is publicly available for download; Jon provides download link in description

    high · Jon repeatedly states 'Download link is going to be in the description' and references it multiple times

  • ?

    technology_signal: Ultra DMD has limitations with very high scores (cannot display numbers beyond a certain threshold)

    high · Jon: 'I broke Diablo... Ultra DMD couldn't hold a score as high as I got... the number was too high and it was like, I can't compute that'

  • ?

Transcript

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0:00
Pop, pop, pop. I'm blowing out my microphone. I don't care. We got a pinball sign. which camera am i on hello welcome mbt3k Okay, now if you have children, put them to bed. Put them to bed. This part of the stream will probably not make it to YouTube because it's copyright violations all over the freaking place. But this is amazing. So this is Iron Maiden.
0:55
What does it look like? I mentioned the name of the table, but tell me what it looks like. Tell me what table you think it is. What's up, Jedi?
1:08
That is an Iron Maiden. That is correct. Oh, Wax. God damn it, Wax. This mod is insane. we're not asking the smart kids in class we're asking the kids sitting in the back yes frank crushed this so let's play let's play laser q i'm sorry i keep saying laser clue q oh my god laser war one of my favorite games before i even saw it i mean frank put some new stuff in here so that's all i gotta say let's let's let's turn that on and then let's start it up and you guys are ready for this you guys ready to get your you guys ready to get ah hang on hang on i gotta do i somehow lost focus there we go all right oh i need to turn the sound down just a little bit because it's crazy loud It's crazy loud. I need to bring that down about... Yeah.
2:25
Fluctronic. It's a mod like an original. Don't pretend to... It's like a mod. An original. Don't pretend to be stern.
Stern Pinball
company
VP Fiendsorganization
Ultra DMDproduct
Flex DMDproduct
Don't Panic Fliporganization
Dialed In!game
Riverboat Gamblergame
Monster Bashgame

technology_signal: Alternative display technology (Flex DMD) being considered as a fix for Ultra DMD limitations

medium · Jon discusses switching to Flex DMD as potential solution: 'John will... switch you to flex DMDs at all times'

2:33
Well, if you think about it, this isn't stern, right? This is... Is this Data East? No. Data East? Is that right? Data East? Wax, this is Data East? Laser War was... This is fucking metal and it ain't fucking cool or we're gonna tear your fucking heads off!
3:01
Thank you. Data East. You're welcome, honey. I love that she says you're welcome every time I say that. So, classic same rules of, classic rules of laser war, right? If you can shoot the locks, and they're timed, right? So if you can shoot three up in the, one up, man, this is a tough game. You can either shoot the targets Or you Son of me Ladies and gentlemen This is where I'm going to struggle Guys It's going to be a struggle Alright It's a little dark I tried to make the ball as bright as possible But the theme is very dark So that's what you got to deal with Let me see if I can start on multiple. Wait, check this out, though. If I hit that, if I hit the ramp, watch the head. It's pretty, it's so sweet. I'm just going to hit the ramp. Wait, ah, now I'm not hitting the ramp now. I'm hitting, okay, I got a lock, a lit lock. Okay, now I have to go for the middle. If I can go for the middle, get a second lock.
4:23
Come on. Before it releases, ah, I released the ball. I released the ball, okay. And it killed me, too. Oh, my God, it just murdered me.
4:33
Wow. Oh, this game is hard. Goodbye. Oh, this will be a couple of games, guys. I'm still adding.
4:54
This will be a couple of games. I'm sorry. I got to get my pinball stamps. Just gotta find where it is on the flipper The middle one is the easiest one to lock But if you go lock left It's hard, Frank This game is finished Want one more?
5:22
Yeah, I do want more I want another shot at it Can you Can someone please type exclamation point Hercules in chat.
5:37
But wait, there's more. Thank you for that. I'm getting lucky locks. And there's, guys, there's these little tiny targets, too, next to the big stand-up. Little tiny targets that you have to hit. Let me see if I can hit that freaking, oh, that ramp. It's so hard to hit that ramp for me. But I want to make the head, I want to show you what the head does. It's early on the flipper It's earlier than I think Okay, there's my ball one lock If I can lock ball two quickly Look, I got a jackpot, I think I, I, I Mistaked my way through a jackpot
6:57
See that? Did you see that? Let me do a quick replay. If you didn't see that, let's play the replay back because that was wicked. See, remember Tommy?
7:14
That mode is in here. Check it out. Watch this. I'm flipping, I'm flipping. Frank, can you let me know when this mode happens? because i'm not sure boom look at that it covered the flippers it has a little fan that tommy has that covers the flippers when does that happen frank because it freaks me out every time it's so good it was so unexpected when i saw that i was like what the f it's so good So They literally like Grab a bunch of neat stuff from different tables And threw them in here
8:07
Oh no Damn it Are you dead or something? Mmm That's freaking cool When you have the last ball left From all the balls Each time it's during More blind time Oh wow More blind time There's something about hearing The 5, 10, and 15 seconds So hey Can you just So can you just trap up Because I would cheat right I would try and cheat and I would just if i can trap like that the problem you can see how you trapping all right so i guess me asking if you can trap up means kind of means nothing because you have to be able to see yourself trap in order to trap so yeah yeah it's a lot earlier on the flip with them trying that lock
9:14
almost backhand that one there right side you pass 15 seconds you win the song fear to the dark so this adds a whole new level to to laser war Very cool. And the music is insane. And the theming is beautiful.
9:50
Frank, who did the artwork? Did you do all the artwork? Because seriously, bro, you need to be doing play fields.
10:01
You need to be doing play fields. This is not your day job. Somebody needs to go send Stern a message. oh my god oh my god the artwork on here guys you gotta download this table the link will be in the description once again i think it are i think it already has a ridiculous amount of downloads so if you slept on this table like i did here we go multi-ball boom there's another mode uh Damn it. Oh, and there's a magnet. Okay.
10:38
Let's choose a song. Fear the Dark. Let's just do Fear the Dark. Because I'm sadomasochistic. I'm masochistic? I'm not sadomasochistic.
10:53
I can't see my flippers. I can feel my flippers though, it's okay. Look, I can feel them. I can feel the flippers. Wait, what was that? Did I flip? Did I flip? Why did I? Did I? Was that me?
11:19
Do you have it set to it so it flips? No cradle allowed. Frank? Frank, I want to say thank you and F you so hard right now.
11:55
Welcome to my world. Oh, I didn't listen to the man. I cradled and the game punished me Son of a bitch Guess who's gonna be playing this all night now Oh man I'm gonna post Yo VP Fiends You're gonna see a sick high score In the discord You're gonna see a sick high score in the discord That's it Daddy's not going to sleep tonight Because this game just pissed me off You told me not to cradle And you flipped And I cradled and you flipped And Frank didn't even tell me He wasn't even nice He was like hey by the way If you cradle during Free of the Dark We're going to flip for you It's not even cool I thought you were my friends I thought we were all cool Now you made me mad Now I'm going to have to blow this game up And send it Discord I'm not looking at chat No, screw you guys No That's not happening right now Sorry Whatever y'all want to do Go for it Get it Get that kickback, baby Kickback all day You're not going to get rid of my kickback too, are you, Frank?
13:32
Nudge, baby Alright, I'll look up for a minute. I'm going to hold you to that. It doesn't matter if you tell me. I'm not going to listen. I'm going to just blindly go off into the night. Alright, here we go.
13:52
This game is... Are you dead or something? Thank you for joining us today. We're going to go. We're done. Thank you so much. Thank you.
14:33
Dead or something Boom right in there baby That's the hardest lock right there That's like the um That's like the metallic shot
15:03
You run to the hills. Whoa, son of a gun. Yo, I apologize for not playing this for so long. This is just so... Ah!
15:33
Pin Bot, how easy was that? Super easy. It's actually quite hard. Link is going to be in the description. Blah, blah, blah. Ballsy! Come on.
16:01
I felt like I was playing Monster Bash for a minute with all those... Ball's locked. Let me get a second lock. Let me get a second lock here.
16:20
Whoa. Oh, that wasn't it? I don't know where my second lock was. Okay, I got a lock. Oh, get in there. Oh, two. Come on, Frank. Come on, baby.
16:41
Your game is hard, but it didn't meet me yet. Oh, it did meet me. Hi, nice to meet you. No. This is the funniest thing.
16:59
Oh, shit. Now we're in the dark again. No. Don't punish me. I'm just a kid. I didn't know. It's not going to let me trap.
17:16
All I can do is flip. I'm flipping it. Too scary. Yo VP Fiends Sneakily1 if that your real name We gotta battle on this We gots to battle on this Okay?
17:55
The reason I'm pointing you out, VP, Because I don't want to be the only one Getting my ass kicked by this game I want somebody else on camera To be getting their ass kicked Yeah Now I know who you're talking about When you're talking about tearing effing heads off One more game Here we go I gotta get the triple lock for you guys It's not gonna happen that way It's not gonna happen like that
18:31
You know, Frank, good job, baby. Good job, baby. Nice work. Is it? Hey, let me ask you. Let me ask you this. Would it be fair for me to post high scores if I play in VR? Is that unfair Would you call that the same Or Would that be the same Or would that be different A low score is a low score VR Oh man I thought y'all was my friends Shots fired A low score is a low score I love responses like that Like oh you think you're going to do better Give me some time Hey I broke Diablo I play Diablo you guys play Diablo Scotty Wick's table Scotty and JP's table I went through the monsters so many times The game gave an error That I still have to give that to Scotty Because it was The score it wasn't the game it was ultra it was um
20:03
Ultra DMD the number was too high and it was like I can't compute that This is a lot harder than that but but if you if you're able to make a Blast multi shoot the ramp. You have five balls
20:23
I think I did that in like my third or something play Or I just went to that mode Is there a And there are easter eggs There are flipper codes in this too I'm gonna let you guys download the table And check out the flipper codes There's a flipper code YouTube So Frank put up a YouTube with flipper codes Really cool stuff I'm gonna let you guys check that out On your own Oh, I just nano'd the ball up. Okay. Let's get a jackpot.
21:05
Damn it. I'm sorry. I almost did it, too. That was a three ball right there, and I almost did it. And then you gotta... It's harder to do it another time.
21:19
That's why you need John to... Oh, here we go. Yeah. That's why you need John to switch you to flex DMDS at all times.
21:36
Alright, I'm on it. I'll use the flex. I'll switch to flex. John is super cool because John will... I'm going to do one more, guys. Please, I've got to put up a good score on this. One more and then we're going to go over to Don't Panic Flip and see how they're doing.
21:56
What's up, DLC? There he is right on time. No, John, we were just saying, like, I was telling them that I broke Diablo. There's a code to begin directing to any Madness 5 balls.
22:16
Let's do that. Let's do the any 5 Madness balls. And then we'll do this. Yeah. Let's do the, let's do the, Let's do the Eddie Fiveball code So you guys can just see how ridiculous that is Hey Frank, could you put up the Eddie Fiveball code?
22:34
And then Now Hawkeyes, we were just talking I broke Diablo Because Ultra DMD couldn't hold a score As high as I got And they were just saying To get you maybe to help me Switch over to Flex DMD Which will probably fix the problem Yeah, flex.
22:57
Okay. What's the flipper code for Eddie? Eddie multi super wizard mode. Okay. Pinbot. I'm going to play some pinball. Good attitude. You can only get better. Thanks. I thought somebody was working up Pup DMD for this. I don't know Let's clean the glass while I Okay here we go Oh I just started it wrong Here we go Isn't that um Isn't that a paradiddle I think that's a paradiddle right Do ba do do ba do ba ba do ba do do ba do ba ba I think that's a paradiddle
23:53
Did I do it right? That's a different one. That's Fear of the Dark. Oh, crap. Too scared. Give me another one. This is cool.
24:09
Oh, paradiddles are right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left. Yeah. Took it out on purpose.
24:17
All right, we're going to do it again. We're going to jump back into it again. I am now loading up the game. Right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left Or right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left Right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left Yeah Yes, I'm a drummer Here we go, try it again Alright During the music We have to do it Guys, download this tape because it's awesome Are you going to do that?
24:47
This is fucking metal And it ain't fucking cool uh let me do the other one let me do this let me do the other one
24:57
please wait i am now loading up the game one more time one more time maybe one day i will have my own flipper code in a v-pin oh You need the T-Arc So you can have cool loading bins Yeah VP I saw your freaking setup And I was jealous There you go That was super peanut butter jelly time Peanut butter jelly time Yeah
25:37
I need ice fucking cold, or we're gonna tear your fucking heads off! Now we rip it up. Now we rip it up. Let's get a jackpot.
25:50
Almost. Almost. Not quite. That was fast. How fast was that, ladies and gentlemen? Maybe I can get a jackpot.
26:03
Maybe I can get a jackpot. Deer defense Kick back Jackpot I got two balls I got two eyes One two They both the same size One two I got two eyes Oh wait Jackpot is lit Jackpot is so lit right now. Ooh, that's wicked.
26:38
I am in choice mode and I'm in jackpot mode. Take it, take it. Take it, no! Oh, bounce! Oh no, gimme. Hit me! Air defense!
26:56
Jackpot! I think I hit it. Yes, I did. Oh my god, it's draining. Another jackpot. Tear it up. Tear it up. Tear it up. Ooh! Knock her.
27:10
Knock her? I don't even know her. Ugh! No! Jackpot! Ooh! Oh, that was a panic flip. Whoa. That's a triple ball freaking... Ah, crap.
27:48
That's a triple ball cradle right there, guys. That was short lived Every time I get a jackpot I get that sucker back Whoa jackpot Come on baby bring it keep going Now I'm losing it again Cradle Use that ball save It's all good It's all good.
28:23
Boom. That's okay. I get it back. Boom. Another one. Keep it going.
28:34
This is who you're looking for, guys. MPT just showed up. Boom. What's happening? I'm liking this mode. Hahaha. We're not going to do a panic clip until I'm done with this. We're not going to do a panic clip until I'm done with this guys. Oh it looks like I'm done with this. So close.
29:22
Wait for it. Cradle separation. Ah. Ah, that felt good. Backhand it? Nope.
29:42
Can I get it back? I got extra ball lit. Through this, we're going to keep going We have to keep going What am I, 4 million?
29:56
I think I broke it There it is Get that extra ball Baby, baby, baby There it is What's up, baby? Come on, come on, bounce it.
30:20
Whoa. Whoa, that's two. Oh, feeling good. Whoa. Shoot again. Oh, no. So Frank, that's okay right? 11.
31:01
You gonna make me work for 11? It's gonna eject the ball in a minute. Either that or I am actually going quite late right now Being in Madness Mode Maybe a bug hit Maybe a bug bit stuff Yeah So I'm going to Mute that And I gotta flex for a minute Pinbot how easy was that Super easy Barely an inconvenience Thank you guys so much for joining me I'm gonna head out we're gonna go over and check out Don't Panic Flip over on their channel Once again like I said Riverboat Gambler Gold Kiko And some physics Fixes by VP Fiends And Wax And it's a beautiful version of Riverboat Gambler And Iron Maiden Sleeper Hit for me New to me, holy smokes Crazy fun, thank you so much Is it Mussinger? I'm just going to call you Frank for now Thank you, Messenger. Thank you, everybody.
32:16
Yeah, that's it. Let's see. Don't do that. He's revealing in his glory. Reveling in his glory. And thank you, Cansuit, for suggesting the table. Anyway, guys, I will see you later.
32:36
VP forever. I'll see you guys on Thursday where I will be at Free Go Watch. probably this is for you um ken swift i'm probably gonna play dialed in
32:49
thank you for the cheering i'll see you later oh wait a minute does she have a command to take us out
33:07
no i don't have a command for the thing thank you for the bitties see you later guys All right. We're going to head over and go see what Don't Panic Flip is doing. Once again, thank you guys so much. I'll see you on Thursday and possibly Friday. Good night.
34:10
We'll be right back. Thank you.