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PedroGames.Com And 72-pin Edge Connectors for NES

Those ten Nintendo games I won from eBay from pedrogames.com arrived yesterday.  I ordered them on Thursday evening, received the Invoice and paid for them Friday morning, and received them yesterday on Monday.  I'm not sure if pedrogames.com is in cahoots with the Postal Service, or if the Postal Service is just suddenly efficient because I also received Hook for Nintendo from another seller as well, with the same circumstance.  Though his game came from Missouri and not North Carolina.  In either case, it was a reasonable turn around time for both.  (I also have Licensed Gauntlet (in the grey cart) on it's way as well.)

I should also be receiving the Nintendo 72-pin edge connectors soon (I am not receiving them from Pedrogames.com as the title of this post might lead one to believe).  I've a handful of NES's that could desperately use them and the method to fix them is pretty well known on the web so I'm not going to post instructions or anything about that here.  I do want to point out that one of the systems I'll be fixing with the edge connector came from a thirft store for $5.  The NES itself looks like junk.  It's filthy and there is an ugly "chip" on one of the corners in the front.  But, a new 72-pin edge connector, and some Windex should clean it up nicely.

I also have plans to restore an NES controller that has been abused by years of cigarette smoke back to it's original grey color.  I was at a thrift store recently where I saw alot of controllers where the buttons were tight and felt great, but the controller itself was deplorable.  The scratches were pretty bad but the yellowing... SHESH..  Anyways, if I can restore one (and I do have a plan for this) then I might start buying messed up controllers to see how many can be restored to a reasonable condition.  Funny... the thrift store that had these wanted $2.99 a piece, yet about two years ago I bought a BRAND NEW Nintendo controller from there for 25 cents.