Steel Battalion Online 🇦🇺

Forgotten Gems Steel Battalion (2002, original Xbox exclusive) Capcom and Nude Maker built it, with Atsushi Inaba producing. It hit North America on November 20, 2002, and it shipped with its own giant cockpit controller. That controller was the hook. 44 inputs, two joysticks, a throttle, a radio dial, toggle switches, three foot pedals, and a flip-up eject button. Around $200 for the bundle. You didn't just play it, you piloted it. Every mission started with a full startup sequence on the switches before your Vertical Tank would even move. And it was ruthless. If you didn't hit eject when your mech was going down, your pilot died and the game deleted your save. Back to the start. The team actually began it on PS2, then moved to Xbox for the extra power. Only limited runs of the controller were made, so it became a true collector's piece. It never made the backward compatibility list, so an original Xbox and that massive controller are still the only way to play it. Who still has one in the closet? youtube.com/watch?v=bHbH5k4F…