I wonder if there are more such things. Not necessarily for controlling, I can think of a couple games that would be a great fit for just visualizing stuff. Trains for I/o, you can vary number of trains, train length and speed to represent parameters of the io pattern.

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Imagine the multiplayer version showing you all the other sysadmins or devs entering the same room to check for logs etc as a problem is being debugged. "Hey dude, look at this log!" and there goes the command for a tail or grep...