Out of a 160,000 square foot facility in Richland Hills, Texas, USA comes Valley-Dynamo game tables, commonly found throughout bars and homes in 6 continents. Starting with Valley billiards in 1945, the company has expanded to multiple brands, as well as produced crane games, arcade games, Jet-Pong, and pinball - with many more games on the way. Every Valley-Dynamo game table is manufactured from start to finish in the United States.
Founded in 1945, Valley® has spent more than 70 years as the industry leader in the coin-operated pool table market. Valley, also created, the non-profit and highly competitive, international amateur Pool Association called Valley National 8-Ball League Association also known as the VNEA. Players from all over the world qualify through their local Amusement Companies to compete in the annual week-long VNEA World Pool Championships held each year in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Founded in 1970, Tornado has been the leading manufacturer of high quality, tournament style foosball tables in the world. Over the past 48 years, Tornado has manufactured several different models, which have included patented designs that are still used today. As an official table of the ITSF (International Table Soccer Federation), Tornado is considered the top playing table in the world according to the majority of International foosball players.
Founded in 1973 in Dallas, Texas by William Rickett, Dynamo entered the amusement game manufacturing industry by introducing foosball tables. After a short period of time and a great deal of success, Dynamo began building coin-operated pool tables and eventually coin operated Air Hockey tables. Today, the Dynamo Air Hockey brand is considered the best built most respected table in the world. The Dynamo Prostyle Air Hockey table is the official sanctioned table of the United States Air Table Hockey Association (USAA) who holds local, state, and regional tournaments as well as the annual National Championships.
Founded in 1980 by Craig Connelly, Connelly Billiards has been manufacturing high end quality custom pool tables for homes and businesses for over four decades. These tables are sold world-wide and are available to be fully customized, including your choice of wood species, pockets, legs, sites, cloth and stain color to match most environments.
Kelye Stites founded Champion Shuffleboard in 1988 at a time when shuffleboard as a game was in a period of decline. By evolving the game with the polymer coated playfield the company was able to dominate the world shuffleboard market for a time. As a testament to the value of this innovation his design has been replicated by most manufacturers across the globe. Today, Champion is still the largest manufacturer of shuffleboard tables world-wide. From our patented “Handicap Scoring” system to our lifetime guarantee on our playfields, Champion Shuffleboard continues to expand the game around the globe. Our customers can choose from lengths of 9ft – 22ft as well as a range of special stains and custom logos to meet their needs.
All the companies gradually came together with acquisitions, mergers, and more acquisitions. In 2012, all the brands came together under one roof in Richland Hills, TX to create the largest Billiard, Air Hockey, Foosball, Shuffleboard and accessories manufacturer in the world, Valley-Dynamo L.P.