I made a ton of money in my early teenage years as a result of what would have started out with games. Starts as an elementary school making maps, hacking games, things like drivers, memory management, other things you had to do in DOS. Am I really in IT now, no, but that's by choice. The learning that resulted from that gaming had me learning people skills and business as a 13 year old trying to sell websites and tech services and continued to the point it paid for my entire college education with not a cent of debt coming out of it.

I don't think it applies less now. Well, maybe somewhat as things are a bit easier. I never had consoles much, we had one at one point, but never really had the money for games. I did have access to computers because my Dad was in IT.