Quoted from mav2287:I also think I have solved some of the mystery about it at this point by interrogating my father-in-law and his wife a bit more. Turns out he did hardly ever play it BUT his bored wife was playing it while he was at work ... A LOT ... makes sense considering she is the one that bought it and he wasn't around to know. Sucks though because if I would have known that from the start a lot of the flaming would have been avoided, ♂️ LOL.
It doesn't really matter where the plays came from, but based on the info you've laid out and the audit pictures that used to be attached to the ad, she couldn't have played it much. Like you said, no one knew how to get into the machine to reset audits or update code.
There's just no chance it was new when they bought it. It didn't come out of a box with those legs. Again, not that it matters.