Cannot wait to try it out myself soon. Looks amazing.

I was pleasantly surprised how much I liked the game. Got to play it Saturday night. First new Stern in years that I can say I would want.

Will be interesting to see what the Premiums looks like.

Pretty compelling to see people love it who aren't even IM fans!

oh lord

I own one

It's a cool game and will probably get better...but ranking anything as an all time great right away is a mistake. Come on man you know that!

EDIT: Like right now, I don't think it's as good as SW but it just rolled in this weekend so only time will tell.

It's been out for 10 days, therefore, it HAS to be the best pin ever. Simple math!

Now what is next. Ramstein!

The best part of playing iron maiden at MCG is I got to play a lot but didn't have to listen to a single second of the audio since it was drowned out. It plays well, it looks as cool at it can under licensing restrictions (older style art would have been way better), IM music is worse than nails on a chalk board 99% of the time.

Glad I like Maiden, oh and Eddie has been and will be one of the most iconic mascots of metal pretty much ever.

Seems like a good time to start this pinball collecting thing.

I missed playing the game this week at ayci Gogi in Los Angeles, at our league.

But I will be there in the next couple weeks playing. So nice to have so many great pinballs being produced.

It's pretty dang cool to see iron maiden get a suitable pin made of thier band.

Iron Maiden is the second coming of pinball, nothing bad shall be said about it or you will be smited from the pinball Gods above living on top of Mount Multiball. Everything about it is amazing, the music is the greatest, and omg the flow. No toys on pro someone said? Smited!

Lol

I'm playing it at a 1 volume (family) and it hasn't bugged me yet. I'll get in there and see if I can raise the overall volume/effects/call outs and leave the music down. Strangely at a 1 a lot of the time it sounds like Dio is singing. This is of course not ideal, but much better than the real thing.

Price drop alert!!!! Indiana Jones drops out of the top 10 with the new #1....prices gonna fall out on it. If you own it, better sell now!

I have yet to play this pin, but I'll surprised if it's better than Metallica. Pleasantly surprised.

It's fun, played a bunch of games at MGC but I would never get rid of my Met Pro for it.

I watched 2 hours of gameplay video and realized:
1) I knew all of ZERO Iron Maiden songs
2) the game is incredible
3) LE $10k by Christmas
4) I'm bitter Elwin didn't get Star Wars

Total Nuclear Annihilation debuted at #1 as well, and has settled down to #18.

Also it is interesting that the preliminary reviews are in for the Pro, but when the LE eventually comes out the code will even be more mature and chances are will rate higher.

LE's always rate higher becasue people spend more monies on their LEs.

Resistance is futile..

Tried to deny is myself, but just looking at the art, the gameplay footage, the joy people express over it.. winner!

Didnt want one i once said.. now it cant be here soon enough

The way I see it. No question it looks awesome and I haven't come close to playing it. No idea on the music but probably not my cup of tea, however I didn't know any Metallica songs and have grown to like the music and liked the gameplay.

Conclusion: Sadly, Sadly, Sadly, this will be prohibited in my household. Added to prohibited list with TWD, BSD and AC/DC.
Why? The artwork will scare the young grandkids and anything with the devil/ hell is not acceptable per the family.
The grandkids stay away from Hobbit and LOTR with Gullum. They are good with Sparky. Congrats to the rest of you though.

Since its already almost 9k to start out, its not too much a stretch at this point. We're going to have to update that phrase to 15k by Christmas to get the same impact.

Yeah, no diss to the music in my statement, it all felt like a GREAT high energy pinball soundtrack.

If I go to the movies, and I leave entertained, happy, and intrigued, I consider that a good movie.
If I cant stop thinking about it a week later, I feel it was a damn good movie.

Iron Maiden, did exactly this for me...I cant shake it, and will go and play more!
Its been a while since a pin has done that to me.....

It's a decent pin. But not the best pin ever made by a long shot. Maybe top 20 if you are being realistic.

What is the Iron Maiden machine acronym? IM is already taken...

IMDN

What about all the games with SS as an acronym?

Someone needs to freshen up the acronym list.

A more legitimate pinball website has Twilight Zone as #1. I guess that means nobody really knows what's going on.

http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl

Iron Maiden looks seriously cool. I have not been interested in any recent Stern for ages, and I can't wait to play this one...

Well LEs will all be 10 from owners the same day they get it
Which will be countered by people thinking it's rated too high and lowballing it.

And pretty cool that IMDN is the cheapest of that top 5.

Once the LE reviews hit, don't forget to star all the 10/10 reviews and flag anything under 9. Protect your investment folks. Criticism hurts the pinball economy.

I played the pro at Cactus Jacks for about 2.5 hours. Other than all of the songs sounding about the same, I liked it. Really, really liked it! Has fun ramp shot up the middle. The upper right flipper has a sweet TZ/WW/TS combined feeling to it. The gals voiceover is really well done and helps tell you what to hit. I couldn’t walk away from it.

When I got to Cactus Jacks, I first found/played TNA about 10 games and I was really digging TNA lights and sounds and action. Then I saw Iron Maiden. When I went back to TNA, I immediately wanted to just go back to Maiden. I swore I’d never buy a NIB pinball....then Iron Maiden came along....

??

You know Metallica has an album called Kill Em' All...Puzzled that you would be okay with Met and not IM.

Yes, I'll give it an 11

I’m waiting to see the Premium features and looks....then I’ll probably cave, too. Haha! I have up to 3 games I could sell to fund it...

I played a pro for the first time last weekend.

First game was kinda short as I got a feel for it and sized up the shots.

Second game was what seemed like a never ending multi ball scorefest that I finally just backed down on because another guy was waiting to possibly buy it, but managed to put my initials up anyway.

That center ramp shot kinda reminded me of Big Hurt, except without the moving glove.

So my takeaway from it is it has the potential to be a top rated game if it is rated by how easy it is and how cheesy a theme can be. But hey, this is pinside after all, so give the people what they want!