yeah i edited my post... sorry for that... i admit, i never ever played a single playthrough with minigames turned off, so i didnt think of the possibilty that the phone would look like that if you turn them offOr maybe he chosed to disable the minigames in the very beginning menu?
(Or loaded from an inmate save but with minigames disabled)
If so, he could enable console then give the command:
minigames=True
(Case sensitive)