Quoted from woody24:If Stern were to do an LCD display, they'd need to make sure the game was 100% complete before sending it out. Can't imagine someone working on creating the video visual without completed code to work with. Would see this as much more time consuming than a DMD.
They should just hold the game back then until it's in a state to be shipped. They can at least get their interface on the LCD and add animation updates later. JJP did that with WOZ.