I remember having a pin bend in my N64/SNES S-video cable used on my RCA Colortrack Plus 20" (Good S-video capable TV set for 1993/94 I have to say though, and was later renamed as RCA Home Theater). I kinda jammed it somehow while plugging it in once, but was able to use needle-nose pliers to straighten it out.
It was nice to have S-video when I bought the cables finally for my SNES/N64/PS1/NGCD back in 96. I remember firing up Suikoden for the first time using S-video and dayummm. My friends kept asking how my picture looked so good when they were only using RF and composite back then. Of course I had that one friend being a smart-ass and saying "I can't tell the difference between your S-video and composite on my 32 inch RCA", get your eyes checked dude lol. Hell, most of my friends then didn't even quit only using composite for all consoles until 2005 when they got a better TV and a Xbox 360. I started using Component video with my PS2, Neo Geo AES, Gamecube and Xbox 2 years after I got my Sony Trinitron 27" in 2003. Why I waited so long is beyond me. First games I hooked up with Component was Last Blade for my Neo Geo with the Neobitz I have just installed and then Lunar 2 on my PS2. I couldn't believe how crisp each pixel looked and this set did S-video 2x better than my old RCA it seemed.