Can remember playing this is Sydney
Was real slow and the flippers were weak...Alan Tate has 2 and one will be displayed when he sets all his games up.
The 'original Hercules' was produced in 1948 - off IPDB:
This was an oversized game with 36 bumpers and no flippers. Backglass showed bulb scoring up to ten million points and also had a "One Billion" light. A center playfield bumper scored one billion when lit, suggesting that a final backglass score could exceed one billion points. The wooden legs are extremely long, and even adult players had to stand on boxes to play'The Time of Your Life' was a James Cagney movie of 1948 based on William Saroyan's 1939 play. This pinball machine was made as part of a cancer fundraising project by the industry. It was set up in theater lobbies where the movie was playing