IMHO nothing matches the truly immersive experience of Battletech that they had at North Pier in Chicago when I was growing up. It was a fully themed space and

IMHO nothing matches the truly immersive experience of Battletech that they had at North Pier in Chicago when I was growing up. It was a fully themed space and you'd walk into a room full of pods (cockpits) and they'd slide the hatch closed on you. Then lights and multiple monitors would come on and you had a joystick, throttle, foot pedals for rotating your turret, and a massive array of switches, buttons, and their associated little red digital displays for weapon assignments, etc. It was unbelievable and at the end you all went into a room to watch a spectator view of the match and got a printout with every blow of the match described in log format. I think I still have my membership card somewhere.