1976 Big Hit - ビッグヒット by 昭和遊園機械 (Showa Amusement Park Machinery)

Name: Big Hit - ビッグヒット
Year: 1976 (maybe earlier)
Company: 昭和遊園機械 (Showa Amusement Park Machinery)

This is a slightly redesigned version of 1972 Hit & Run - ヒットアンド・ラン by 昭和遊園機械 (Showa Amusement Park Machinery), which is a rework of the classic Super Match.

There is a flyer that includes this date pegging it as 1976 but I am unsure if that is means the machine is from 1976, or that the flyer is just dated.

The other appearance I have is from a 1977 Coin Journal issue.

While Hit & Run has a Type Approval Number of 91-7822, Big Hit uses 91-8108.  I do not have solid evidence the numbers are always linearly consecutive, but there is a strong implication.  So we know the game was around in 1976, it might have been made closer to 1975.