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But while they will be familiar with the typical way of playing - moving and aiming with joysticks and shooting with the "A" button - there’s a significant new feature too.

The joystick was sensitive to every movement and as I descended with the runway filling the windscreen very rapidly, correcting mistakes to stay on course became impossible.

A glimpse of what appeared to be a new Mario Kart game was also shown, and the video hinted that rumours about magnetic controller attachments and upgraded joysticks were true.

“They basically have a joystick controlling the robot dog as it walks around,” said Missy Cummings, an engineering professor at George Mason University who runs the university’s Autonomy and Robotics Center.

His motorized wheelchair whirring to life, “Rocket Rod” Foster uses the joystick attached to the end of an armrest to roll forward inside his West Los Angeles apartment.