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Yes, the vinaya was for monks; precepts for laypeople were a later addition. I think to a great extent, though, he's not talking about good Buddhist monks vs. bad Buddhist monks; he's talking about what distinguishes the Buddhist path from the paths followed by other "contemplatives". If you look a couple pages back from that quote, you'll see that the sutta is contrasting him with various other "contemplatives" — today we'd call them Hindu sadhus, but "Hindu" didn't become a religious identity until some 2000 years later.

As for the question of whether everybody should become a monk, well, certainly the Mahayanist Bodhisattva Vow claims so — if not in this lifetime, in some future lifetime. But the authenticity of the Mahayana sutras is sufficiently divisive that it created a schism in Buddhism that continues today, 2000 years later.

I think there are a couple of interesting facts we can get from the list of games:

1. Either Shakyamuni thought playing games like these amounted to "having vices" incompatible with striving diligently at meditation, or the Buddhist sangha thought he thought that within a few centuries of his death. Perhaps even more surprising, he thought the same thing about going to concerts and using mirrors.

2. Holy shit, people have been playing pick-up sticks and guessing letters drawn in the air for 2500 years?