Ok well the amazing HOusetek told me about this gundam game in Japanese Arcades. You go into a POD and theres this huge LCD screen and you actually pilot your own Gundam and play in team Death Matches.
I looked a bit more into it and heres what I found out: You make your OWN Pilot card! your own customized Pilot and after each game you put it into the Pilot terminal and you get Rank ups, new weapons, mech upgrades, new mech types you can use, Kill/die ratios. The game looks pretty insane and I wanna play it SOOOOOO badly ><
YouTube - senjougundam's Channel He has alotta vids uploaded of the game