Meet the Houston Power Couple Spurring a Pinball Renaissance

Tim Hood is standing inside a building he calls the Vault, giving me a tour on a warm spring day in Houston, when there’s a knock at the door. He isn’t expecting anyone, and as a man and woman step inside, they’re also taken by surprise.“Is this the embroidery shop?” the man asks. Clearly it’s not, but the pair are not really sure what they’re looking at.That’s because the Vault is filled with pinball machines in various states of assembly. There are several dozen here, some set up and ready to play but many still wrapped in shipping plastic, their back boxes separated from the cabinets or opened to reveal their electronic and mechanical guts.There are valuable rarities alongside popular titles you’d see in many…

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