Many video games started to spawn up after the radar was invented in the military. With this massive boom in computer technology in the 1950s when the first video game came out witch was Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device a interactive game based of the radar system.
Many games that came out after that were remakes of games that existed already like chess or poker, even ping pong creating some of the first games were based off real life experiences to create a virtual understanding of how they work.