fezziwig gives a pretty good example; the Street Fighter series in general can be considered to have an uncommonly high number of instances like this.

However, with that said, I agree with your earlier statement that the question is whether there really are any fields of knowledge that behave like this (and would be useful to us), or if it's dependent upon key patterns of game logic and none of those patterns are present in nature, or some other explanation that makes these cases too limited in scope to be worth exploring the way I thought the OP was suggesting.