World Series 1943

World Series 1943 is a baseball-themed conversion kit released by Victory Games in October 1943, designed to transform Genco's 1941 electro-mechanical machine 'Seven Up' into a baseball game. Kits like this let operators refresh existing machines cheaply during wartime rather than buy new ones — a practical response to the era's restrictions on manufacturing new pinball hardware, since metal was being diverted to the war effort and several cities had also cracked down on pinball over gambling concerns.

The conversion added a new 12-color baseball scorecard, oversized two-tone bumper caps decorated with ball-player illustrations, and 'Home Run' decals covering the original 'Diamond' wording on the playfield. Gameplay cost 5 cents for 5 balls, with scoring driven by 19 bumpers; the only general illumination lamp in the backglass lights up behind the '1943'. Replays were awarded for hits, home runs, batting average, and lighting all nine ball-player bumpers.

As a low-cost wartime conversion rather than a full new cabinet, World Series 1943 is a modest but historically interesting artifact of how pinball operators kept their machines earning during a period of production restrictions. It was superseded the following year by Victory Games' own 'World Series' (1944).