Miss America '45

Miss America '45 is not a standalone pinball machine but a conversion kit, one of several 'Miss America' kits sold by Victory Games between 1943 and 1946 to convert Chicago Coin's 1940 'All American' into a pageantry/women-themed flipperless game. It followed Victory's 1943 'Miss America '44,' with the backglass year updated to reflect each new release; no manufacturer date has been confirmed specifically for the '45 version, and it may have first appeared in late 1944 or early 1945.

As a flipperless, single-player conversion, gameplay relied on the underlying 'All American' mechanics rather than any flipper-based ball control, in keeping with pre-flipper pinball design of the period.

Little further detail on this specific kit's design or reception survives, but its place in the 'Miss America' series offers a window into how manufacturers extended the life of existing games through low-cost conversion kits in the 1940s.