The Biggest Pinball Machine Ever - Complete In Box 

Holy moly! I played this locally not quite a decade ago. I had no idea of its rarity. Too bad I came to the exact same conclusion that you mentioned, Chirs. Novel, but slooooww play.

I actually had a chance to play a couple balls on Hercules at Magfest 2020. Let me tell you, it is an experience to play; the ball (while definitely slow as mentioned) is incredibly smooth in how it rolls, and the way it almost always rolled in the perfect center of the upper lanes had me convinced the thing was somehow magnetized. While it's not as intense to the senses as its siblings, I'd say it's worth a play just to watch that ball float across the board

Wow this deserves more views.

This video deserves 10x more views.

I actually worked on an Atari Hercules machine. A client of mine had an odd request, could I fix his Atari Hercules machine? I had played one as a kid at Walt Disney Orlando. There used to be an arcade in the Main Street full of odd and classical games and machines. So I took a look at it, saw that is uses a cue ball for a ball and I worked on it. Had to find a way to recondition the flipper solenoids, had to repair many of the pop bumpers and try to actually make a rubber set for the playfield. Had an guy at an old electric motor rewiring shop respool the solenoids with new wire. We stretched the rubbers from a Bally Embryon widebody to sub for some of the rubbers. Fortunately the electronics and lights only needed cleaning and solder reflow. Repolished the cue ball and replaced some of the old wiring to something more reliable. Fired it up, and it works. This machine is a b**ch to work on, as all the pop bumpers and flippers have to stand the shock of a cue ball hitting them. It was never a popular machine, as it was so large. It had similar size quality to a Bally Discs of Tron Environmental game. The 80s were such a great time to experiment and if you Google it a little, Atari made mostly large, widebody pinball machines.

I played this machine at Canobie Lake Park. They had this in the food court of a pinball museum. The damn thing was a beast.

I've been to that museum a few times and that machine was working only once in all those trips, and it was even more boring than this video makes it look.

I first played this in an arcade called The Gold Mine, in Latham Circle Mall (New York) in 1980. I wonder if the machine at the Strong Museum in NY could be the same machine that I played way back then. I was only 8 and needed my brother to work the other flipped since I could reach both. I do still recall it being very slow and a bit boring, but I was still glad to have been able to try one for myself.

I played this back in the early to mid 80's at the arcade in Ft. Wayne, IN Glenbrook Mall. Sure glad I grew up as an 80's kid.

I played this machine in Toronto Canada in 1980 at the CN TOWER. HUGE MACHINE. I WAS 11

I played this at Lyons Classic Pinball in Lyons Colorado, iirc.

Thanks for the video

Shortest CIB yet. Made me yearn for more arcade content.

Very interesting, thank you for the video.

Still had this and Flintstones one at Olympic park arcade in Rochester NY on Scottsville Rd . Olympic amusement park was destroyed circa 1987, the arcade was right next door, now a parts retail store

I’ve played a couple games of this, it’s honestly a lot more fun then people give it credit for. Yes it’s slow but it’s just so big and goofy that it’s hard not to have fun with it.

My grandfather used to have an arcade with that big pinball machine a long time ago

This really makes the time i got to play it at magfest so much more amazing

It was 50cents not a quarter. I used to play this when it first came out. On the boardwalk in Wildwood New Jersey. Could barely get my arms around it. I enjoyed the Flash machine much much better

Great video. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.

I recently had the chance to play this at the Silverball arcade in Asbury Park, NJ. I'd never seen a unit before, so it was a real treat to play, even moreso now that I've learned how rare it is. That said, I'd agree that it doesn't quite have the same quick action as a standard pinball machine because of how huge the playfield is - I only played one round on it before moving on. Still a cool piece of arcade history, and I'm glad to have come across it and played it.

I recalled playing this as a kid in some small amusement park. Perhaps Coney Island or Rockaway Playland. Not many memories of it except of it being boring and (almost) wishing I had played some other game. I mean after all, 25 cents was a small fortune back then!

i looked forward to playing this everytime at "playland" in redondo beach ca.

I remember playing this at the Santa Monica peer!

I played this when I was a kid in Pittsburgh at century 3 mall.

they had this at qmart in PA forever

The ball in the machine we played had a wooden ball. But that was back in the early eighties.

There's a Hercules Pinball machine in Replay down near the Sponge Docks

Oh wow I totally remember playing this with my dad at Hershey Park, maybe? We were like wow! And then both agreed it completely sucked.

Just played this at asbury park and it it bigger than it looks. It was like the size of a car.

Hey our local pinball museum in downtown Chattanooga TN has one of these.

🏍️ Those of us who were big enough to touch both flippers at the same time while that huge ball was coming down the table back in 1980 are part of an exclusive club. Yes exclusive, even in these times and prestigious. We can play a kid's video game all we want, but the kid'll never know the thrill I felt upstairs at the Ridge Cinema back then. After a few weeks it was gone forever.

This is not the largest. There was a old game show called "Magnificent Marble Machine" I remember running home from the pool to get home in time to watch that show. It was in the mid 70's.

There was a Hercules PB machine in the Carousel Arcade ( Seaside Heights NJ). Used to play it all the time back in day. Unfortunately, it and many more retro arcade game were victims of Hurricane Sandy AND the fire that destroyed parts of the boardwalk. :(

Hercules is a cool pinball machine.

Due to the video title, I thought in the thumbnail there was a car driving under the table 😅

Played a bit at the replay amusement museum in FL, they had a lot of cool and wacky pinball

This is a great video series and I would like to see the uploads keep going

it had a bigger machine back in the mid 80's with over 100 balls in it, I just can't remember the name

Cedar Point used to have one of those.

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Bit Bar in Salem Massachusetts has one.

Saw one of these at the Asheville Pinball Museum in North Carolina, but it wasn't playable. :(

I used to play that shit in wildwood NJ when I was a kid

I feel like they could improve the speed if they improved and increased reinforcements and then added a coat of Teflon to most of the surfaces but I guess it's too late to bother with all that lol

I played it today at this free play pinball arcade and it was pretty cool even tho it moved slow and all that

Think it's fun to play.. just wait until you have to work on one.!!😁

I love pinball! I want to play this at least once.

i do not understand why nobody tried to make the Hercules ''ball' a 3rd of its normal weight. that would have resulted in faster game play along with tilting the machine down about 1/3 of an inch.

I saw one of those from Cedar Point Ohio before.

I played on last week in Funspot Laconia NH!

Cedar point has two of these

At the end I thought you were going to say "because it produced this massive piece.... of shit"

I played this many times as a kid. was a lousy machine as the ball didnt behave like a little steel ball but it was a curiosity like the giant slots in Vegas.

No side-by-side comparison of the machine with a 'standard' size machine makes this entire video redundant. Why go on and on about how big it is if you're not going to show us in a meaningful way?

I was hoping for daddy's pinball.

Around 2.001, I played that game, but realised the game was rigged. I scored 1.632.360, which it shouldn't have.

I have heard legends of how much this table sucks and now that I see it I understand why

I own a Space Riders machine.

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Not even close to correct, then largest pinball machine is 53ft long, 24ft wide and 35ft tall

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