Your Pinballs.store team

Valère and Haley on their wedding day, in front of a Gottlieb Arena pinball machine
July 2026: Valère and Haley — and a Gottlieb Arena, naturally.

Behind Pinballs.store there is no anonymous warehouse and no outsourced customer service. There is a kitchen table, a soldering iron still warm, two well-stamped passports — and two people.

Valère — founder

Valère, founder of Pinballs.store

Valère grew up to the sound of bumpers. In his family home, the pinball machine was not a piece of furniture: it was a member of the family, repaired on Sundays, admired in the evenings. That childhood passion he never put away. He carried it with him — quite literally — across Montenegro, Serbia and France, with Poland soon on the road ahead. Circuit boards in his luggage, his head full of ideas.

Today, at the helm of Pinballs.store, he spends his days doing what he has always done: looking for ways to improve, modify and reinvent the game of his childhood. Collaborating on the design of the FPGA boards that breathe life back into machines others believed dead is his way of saying thank you to the game that never left him. A quick shout-out, too, to Ralph, the designer of the Lisy80 board, without whom this adventure wouldn't look the same.

Haley — the compass

Haley, management and customer service at Pinballs.store
Haley — it will probably be her who answers you.

Born in Missouri, Haley spent her adult life on the roads of the world as a missionary, before setting down her bags last July beside the love of her life. Today she watches over Pinballs.store: management, customer service, and that gift for hospitality which means an e-mail received by us never feels like a ticket.

Together they live between two continents and are building what comes next — convinced that a pinball machine is not an object you own, but a legacy you pass on.

The next chapter is written with you

We're not writing this story alone. Every machine saved, every board fitted on a Sunday afternoon, every message that lands in our inbox is part of it. More than a few of our products began life as a customer e-mail that started with "what if you also made…".

So if you're restoring a machine, if you've been stuck on the same fault for three weekends running, or if you simply have a pinball story to tell — tell us. It's far and away the best part of this job.

Valère and Haley in front of a pinball machine
Two continents, one pinball machine — see you soon.

A question, a breakdown, a pinball story to tell? Write to us — it will probably be Haley who answers, and Valère who repairs.