Anyone who wants into the game industry should at the LEAST be playing around in something easy to pick up like Flash or RPG Maker so they learn the logic behind code.
Business is booming in the cell phone business because as you go from the second generation to the third generation of wireless communication, you need higher density flash to do all of these multimedia tasks in addition to the basic code storing.
For example, adding Flash to do something like watch a YouTube video requires users to go into a terminal line-code and type a long internet address to download the software: it seems impossible to cut-and-paste the address.