Steel Jeeg was televised in many European countries, especially in Italy (known as Jeeg Robot d'acciaio), where it is still widely popular and has a huge fanbase.
Takara's popular magnetic toy for this show's title robot became the basis for Baron Karza, Force Commander and several other robots in the "Magno" line of Mego's "Micronauts" toy line in the US.
A sequel series called Kotetsushin Jeeg aired on the satellite network WOWOW, beginning April 5, 2007
Jeeg makes an appearance in 2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha and Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 for the PlayStation 2, and in Super Robot Wars K and Super Robot Wars L for the Nintendo DS
Steel Jeeg was featured as one of the robots in Super Robot Retsuden.