Thanks, and yes, the hype has cooled a bit after many of the games have already been pulled off of casino floors.
A couple of years ago I was on a panel at the annual Southern Gaming Summit (Gaming Show in Biloxi) and the topic was skill-based games. It was the founder of one of the skill based gaming companies along with a regulator from New Jersey, and me. They were both really pumping up skill based games and I was kind of the wet blanket
My reasoning is that we've had skill-based games on the casino floor for years, live / video Blackjack and live / video Poker. None of those segments have seen any rapid growth in the past 10 years. Also, at our casino we've tried every (what I call) pseudo-skill based games that have come out. These are games where it may appear that skill play a role but there is no impact on the outcome of the game. Games like Big Buck Hunter, Pong, Breakout, Spin Devil, & Centipede. None of these ever did well... Amazon Fishing still does ok... Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Ripley's, all of those are long gone...