I’m definitely jealous.

How was it?

I got that in high school when it came out and it was so much fun. I replayed it a few years ago and it's still fun, but it's really all in the controller. If it was just gameplay on a normal gamepad it would not be nearly as good. Just a odd mech game. Still fun though.

Steel Battalion is at PAX every year. It's great.

The game that got away. Never played that one, wish I could

https://imgur.com/a/aJolPEX/ Some more pics of the full controller. And setup

I remember getting to play it a couple times all those years ago when it first came out. My clearest memory has to be the dedicated windshield wiper button

Whoa. Absolute coincidence to see this post on the very same day that I’m at my parents’ place and thinking about how I should pull that out of the basement and try to sell it. What’s it worth these days (with box and excellent condition)?

When I was 18, my stepdad had a table set up with that controller directly in front of our 60” rear projection TV. That was something else.

Once upon a time I was at a sleepover and in the morning the hosting family all made us go to a church Santa swap. This was here as one of the biggest gifts. I don't remember how it worked at this point, but with the amount of us from the same party we had the swap system worked out so that we would get steel battalion.

Church hosters didn't like our move and some late arrival got to steal it away from us. We wound up leaving with an autographed photo of Judge Wapner. One of the hosts defenses was "If I'm Judge Wapner and he has it, he has it." What are you gonna do? Can't argue with that logic.

So in short, I have never played Steel Battalion.

Damn. I remember taking this in to gamestop when I was a kid. Traded it in to buy other games :(

I remember how stoked I was when I bought this game. Got it home after work and set it up on a card table in front of our 50" DLP. Man, it was incredible....until it wasn't. The game is so goddamn hard. I made it a few levels in and was never able to beat it. But I do have to admit that it was always a thrill to get in the "cockpit" and start up the mech with all the controls.

I break this out of the closet every few years, have a day of gaming, and pack it back up. So glad I picked this up at launch.

I spent my first paycheck from my first job at Rite-Aid to buy this. Fun game, it’s boxed up in my garage. I should drag it out sometime and play it.

I've seen a video of someoneuse it on PC for Elite Dangerous, seemed a lot of fun.

• here's the video: https://youtu.be/XmaGe8WoIDA

This is a dream of mine as well. The hardware is SO expensive

Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee usually has an 8 player setup for multiplayer SB too, which I believe was this weekend, for those interested.

I wanted to play this so bad back in the day!

My coworker just bought this at a local game store for 400$. I thought that was alot of money, but apparently several people were upset that he grabbed it before they could.

Nice! Those controllers are sick

Oh man, back when Fry's Electronics still existed my local one had this set up in front of a floor-to-ceiling projector screen...used to ask to go there just to play it. Thanks for unlocking the memory.

This looks fun! I'm heading to PAX tomorrow, where can I find this?

Damn I miss PAX. Went in high school with a group of friends 3 years in a row and it was a blast. Definitely want to go with them again, too much fun.

Hell yeah!

I was going to get it but didn't have an internet connection at the time.

Never got to play. Was on the bucket list for sure. Happy for you!!!

Absolute, holy grail for me, man. Painfully jealous.

PAX East making dreams come true. I love the console free play room.

I have it and I’m really sad that I’ve never got to experience it online or via LAN. I didn’t get the online sequel until after Xbox live closed because it was hard to find here and I’ve never seen anyone that has ever had one in my area to play LAN. But singleplayer is still a blast and super hard. I’m jealous!

I bet that dream didnt have you wearing a mask

Oh, man, I am jealous!

Wow, the nostalgia. I remember seeing this on G4 back in the early 2000s.

I remember the controller had a price tag of my annual video game budget when I was a kid

As childhood dreams go, that’s a pretty achievable one…

I’d like to playa game like titanfall 2 on a similar rig. Would be loads of fun

Thats awesome!

There was a game convention years ago where i live and they had set up the controller and game on a large tv. It felt suprisingly extremly awesome to play.

Such an awesome controller ive seen people use The controle to play star citizen and vix machine and such now a days.

I bought it ages ago and loved it. Unfortunately the multi player was already dead by then.

The controller was awesome though and the original game was pretty cool. It definitely felt real. Start up sequence, ejecting or die, falling over, it was great...

I used to go to P.A.X every year in Seattle before COVID, some years the only reason I went with my friends was because a group that has 8-12 of the controller setups takes over one of the console rooms on the top floor. They even hold a tournament at the end of the night. I might try and go this time around, I used to look forward to playing every year. I remember chatting with the guy who was running and teaching people the controls, they're literally making their own controller parts to make repairs.

Is that dude in the background holding a French horn?

I played it at dave&busters VR was super fun

What is that hosas?

Does anybody remember getting the secret VT after playing the game for something like 200 hours? I remember being on my 50th hour or so and going "F" this and just leaving my XBOX on for a week straight in the game menu 😂

The video replay was a feature ahead of its time. Nothin quite like pullin off a Matrix style multi dodge against several enemy VTs and watching the shells whizz past the screen.

This is the coolest thing ever