The board shall develop and operate a central system into which all licensed gaming machines are connected. The central system shall be capable of:

A. monitoring continuously, retrieving and auditing the operations, financial data and program information of the network;

B. disabling from operation or play any gaming machine in the network that does not comply with the provisions of the Gaming Control Act or the regulations of the board;

C. communicating, through program modifications or other means equally effective, with all gaming machines licensed by the board;

D. interacting, reading, communicating and linking with gaming machines from a broad spectrum of manufacturers and associated equipment; and

E. providing linkage to each gaming machine in the network at a reasonable and affordable cost to the state and the gaming operator licensee and allowing for program modifications and system updating at a reasonable cost.