Is the analogue stick the greatest improvement gaming has ever had?

[VanceIX]

episteme said:

VanceIX said:

True, but arcade games were introduced in 1966, predating the Magnavox Odyssey by 9 years. The golden age of arcade and the very first introduction of home consoles was hand-in-hand, but the first arcade games predated consoles by almost a decade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_game

Electro-mechanical games aren't video games.

 

The biggest improvements were probably microprocessors (you would only have stiff like PONG without them) and exchangeable cartridges. 

They are arcade games though, and an early predecessor.

Going just by just by traditional video games, the first was introduced in 1971, still predating the Magnavox by 4 years.