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Wild Woody. Big Mutha Truckers. Death by Degrees. We all know plenty of terrible game names. But we went one better, scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with the most excruciatingly awful game titles of all time. Prepare yourself!

#10 Seaman - [ Dreamcast ]

Surely better titles were available for this oddball game, titles that preferably don't bring to mind visions of swarthy sailors or, worse, spurting man goo. Should Sega ever devise a Seaman sequel (and we pray to sweet, sweet Jehovah that they don't), we humbly recommend "Weird Japanese Fish Game" or "Don't Buy Me, Whatever You Do" as promising alternatives. Even "Man Goo 2" has a certain ring to it.


#9 Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse - [ Xbox ]

We'll admit it--we've always wanted to play as a heartless, brain-munching zombie. But not if his name is Stubbs. Sorry, we've got strict standards on these sorts of things. Had ex-Halo-inventor Studios named him Shambles or Shirley, we might've considered it. As it stands, nope.


#8 Corpse Killer - [ Genesis ]

With a title that is perfectly oxymoronic, Corpse Killer promised to ask the immortal question, "how do you kill something that's already dead?" The answer: pump fake bullets into a Z-grade Sega CD movie. The game itself is unspeakably bad, and actually worse than Night Trap, with none of that title's delicious camp. Speaking of which, whatever happened to Tom Zito?


#7 Butt-Ugly Martians: Zoom or Doom - [ PS2 ]

Um, yeah. We chose "Zoom."


#6 WWE Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth - [ PS2 ]

Just priceless. Either WWE fans are unapologetic masochists who crave verbal assault, or the boys at THQ were getting just a little slap-happy when they named this boutique brawler. What's next, "WWE Smackdown! On Your Knees, Bitch"? We can only wait and hope.