Border Break

The game focuses on robot battles through network connectivity between arcade cabinets. Two teams of ten robots battle across different landscapes, which include cities, towns, and facilities. In each map, each team's goal is to destroy the opposing team's energy reactor core, marked in red and blue respectively. At the end of each match, Class Points will be given to the player to level up their current rank.

The class point also affects the rank of the player. Generally, players who have just started the game will start playing in a series of cooperative battles against a computer-controlled "bots" team. The player will start facing actual opponents once when they have attained the rank of D4.

The development team was composed of people that worked on gun shooting games such as Virtua Cop and Ghost Squad. They wanted to create a type of party game where everyone would play together, and in the end thought that robots shooting each other would suit that desire. The team referred a lot to Counterstrike and Battlefield which the development team was playing a lot at the time. Third person shooter games were not common in Japan, and a new IP was also difficult, as mecha games are always going to be compared to Gundam.

The game was more successful than the team had originally thought, thinking that at most it would last five years, but it ended being supported for more than ten years. Not wanting to end up in a situation where the game would become unplayable in the future, a pitch was presented to port the game to PlayStation 4 in 2015, with the port releasing in 2018. Port requests have been there since the beginning, however Sega remained concerned that people stop going to arcade if it didn't remain arcade exclusive, only after the decrease of arcades across Japan and receiving player comments that they needed drive several hours to get to an arcade, it was decided that the game would receive a PlayStation 4 port. In 2019, Border Break celebrated its 10th Anniversary.

Mechadamashii.com gave the game a 9/10 when the game was released new in 2009, saying: "Though the truly striking thing about Border Break, more than any other, is how seamless the game integrates a Western design approach for a PC shooter with the very Japanese rule sets that ensconce its mecha mythos."