ron Soldier is a open-world first-person mecha simulation video game developed by Eclipse Software Design and published by Atari Corporation exclusively for the Atari Jaguar in North America and Europe on December 22, 1994 and later in Japan on March 24, 1995, where it was instead published by Mumin Corporation. The first installment in the eponymus franchise, the game is set in a dystopian future where industries and machinery has overrun most of the surface on Earth, as players assume the role of a resistance member taking control of the titular mech in an attempt to overthrow the dictatorship of Iron Fist Corporation, who have conquered the world through usage of military force.
Conceived by Cybermorph co-producer Sean Patten during his time working at Atari Corp., Iron Soldier began development in late 1993 during the console's launch and was jointly written by Lethal Xcess authors Marc Rosocha and Michael Bittner. Eclipse Software originally pitched an on-rails 3D shooter to the Atari executives but it was rejected for not being a open-world title, however Marc later meet with Patten, who proposed him to create a mech game based on a script he previously wrote that served as the starting basis for the project, which took influences from his fascination with mechas and series such as Godzilla.