Anyone remember Target Earth for the Sega Genesis?  Seriously one of my favorite games for that system.  In Japan it was called Assault Suits Leynos.  It had an equally awesome sequel called Assault Suits Valken (aka Cybernator) for the Super NES.  There were also a couple reboot sequels for the Playstation and Sega Saturn systems.  These games were a bit obscure in the USA, but featured some very cool robot designs and mecha combat action.  They're a great antidote to the current crop of over-worked mechanical designs you find in the Michael Bay Transformers films, and the goofy, feathery, fantasy robots favored in most current anime.  No, these Assault Suits were all about business... heavy military-grade armor, gatling guns, missiles and thruster nozzles.

Incredibly, after all these years, there's now a Leynos/Valken revival of sorts.  In the past couple years, Takara/Yujin released the Valken and Leynos suits as posable trading figures in their excellent Game Robotics and Shooting Historica lines.  They're quite nice, (if small) replicas. 

This year, something even more amazing has come along... a super-detailed 1:35 scale Leynos from Plum Models!  This thing is incredible.  Check out all those pistons, movable plates, and protective caging around the vitals!  You could almost imagine this thing being assembled on a factory line and deployed in a real battlefield (almost).  Great stuff, this is from what I would consider the epoch era of giant robot design.

There were also some great 1:72 Valken 2 resin models made by Yellow Submarine back in the mid 90's... someday I might show you my collection.  I swear I WILL build these someday...