Can you help me identify the NES cartridges in this baseball analyst's background?

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#1  Edited By Fistoh
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The game on top looks like Mike Tyson's Punch-Out to me, and the third from the top looks like a Super Mario Bros. cart sans Duck Hunt. The other two I have no idea.

Side note, my man has some pretty slick music taste

EDITFun fact about this image, both the sports matches featured on the lower third ended up being nail-biter comeback victories in extra time! Wowzers!

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I think the second one is RC Pro-am.

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I can now cross Jeff Passan off my GB forums bingo card.

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Definitely Tyson and RC Pro AM for the top two.

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#5  Edited By Fluidk

The space between the last chunk of text on the fourth cart seems to suggest that the last bit of text is a number. Adventure Island 3 could be a POSSIBLE match, but I don’t feel strongly about it.

https://bitgameshop.com/adventure-island-3-nes-8-bit-72-pins-game-cartridge-card/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwppSEBhCGARIsANIs4p5baf0vxtX_rjMuXjWiF7oR4fGoI6Nclnx8ivdC1kSpih_BP6iH5ScaArh9EALw_wcB

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I think I recall Jeff Passan talking about this background. When they starting working from home the ESPN folks asked Passan what he was into and had this background set up for him. I could be wrong but I think I remember him saying something to that effect.

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@nodima:Baseball season is upon us!

I think I recall Jeff Passan talking about this background. When they starting working from home the ESPN folks asked Passan what he was into and had this background set up for him. I could be wrong but I think I remember him saying something to that effect.

Whether or not it's actually his stuff, I imagine he had to have had some input, though all the albums are big enough on their own that it could be just a random selection.

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#8  Edited By Psygnosis911

Top to bottom:

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!

R.C. Pro-Am

Super Mario Bros.

Fourth one I'm not sure

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The bottom one might be RBI Baseball. The color is right and it would fit his baseball analyst motif he's got going on.

The bit out to the right isn't a number but the red stripe that continues up from the front image.

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artist's rendering

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@twins: the legend! I had been looking at baseball games trying to figure it out and I forgot that RBI had a grey cart version.

Something inside me is very happy that a copy of RBI baseball was on national television though.

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twins nailed it.

And everything in the background is real. Still got those NES games and the system from my childhood. The console is from 1986 and still works.

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@jeffpassan: if this is actually jeff I'd love to know the sequence of events that led to him making an account to respond to this thread.

I'd also love to know what the records between Evil Empire and Dark Side are