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So my FiL wanted to play Donkey Kong for NES. That's the ONLY game he wants to play. So my Wife brought her NES over to his house to play but no matter how many times she tried to play the game it was glitchy. I initially assumed it was a dirty game cartridge but she cleaned it and indeed it did look clean and it also worked in my NES every time no problem. So I opened her NES to look inside and found at least one bad pin, maybe two in the 72-pin connector. The game would load up every time but would be glitchy in a similar way every time so this bad pin could certainly be the culprit. We tried to fix it with some tools inc a long wood skewer and some long thin tweezers but it was really mangled and bent back to the far depths of the connector. I don't think it can be easily fixed so a replacement seemed like the next best option. I found one with a lot of good ratings on Amazon and it was Prime free next day shipping for $17.99 CAD ($13.33 USD) so we ordered it and it arrived the next day! Gotta love Amazon sometimes. I mean ordering replacement repair parts for a ~35+ year old video game console and you can have it the next day! Anyway, replacing the connector did the trick. The system went from not being able to play the game no matter how many times we tried to playing the game first try every time! It's like new!

Sorry about the muffled audio there was a lot of background noise and I had to hit the video hard with some EQ and compression to get rid of it.