One year in college there was a gameroom attached to my dorm with MM @ 5 plays for $2. It was obvious that game was something special compared to most other things I'd played growing up. I basically lived in that gameroom that year, and though I've loved other games since then, nothing quite hit everything so perfectly for me until Maiden showed up.

I routinely find myself saying that Maiden is the best contender to MM in the 20 years since. Like MM, the basic play and shots are intuitive. It's a blast to play without knowing any of the rules, but if you put the time in gets far deeper than MM ever did. Despite the depth, you can eventually learn almost all of it just by playing it a bunch following the callouts and other cues without reading a rulesheet or digging up a flowchart.

The big pain point compared to MM is the theme has less general appeal. Like any other band machine, it's appeal is increased/decreased based on your awareness and opinion of the band itself.

As for JP, it's def one I'd like to own, but only after I snag a maiden.

Ratings over time with a basic linear fit regression. IMDN was was picked as the third game because I like it and wanted to see.

Created to satisfy my own curiosity. Raw numbers should be accurate but no validation were applied.

Anyone using these to try to prove a point is insane, but don't let that stop you!

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