Rarehero is right, but I don’t think there’d be the amount of cheating he thinks. About $5 worth of sensors would handle 90% of it.
As long as there’s no cash on the line, who cares who cheats anyway?
I have a game design that would work with linked machines. It’s doable.
In terms of innovation, I think JJP is really delivering on that. Stern plays it pretty safe (IMDN the exception that proves the rule) so I suspect your opinion is mostly formed by the mostly cookie-cutter stuff Stern does.
Maybe Gary should let the designers run free.