It is not pretty LEDs or toys that make a good pinball machine, it is the software that runs the game that either makes or breaks a game
What Jack should have done is to take any old pinball machine and fitted it out with his new hardware and got the software team working a lot sooner, thereby making a machine that showed the potential of his vision
Bally did this in the 70’s with Bow and Arrow, and there are the prototypes of FG and EBD that were built using the next generation of boards