2 - The glut of hunting games
Number of games in series - appalling
Average score from Metacritic - let's go with 5.5 and call it quits

You've seen them before. You've walked past them innumerable times. You probably don’t know one single person who actually likes them, but for whatever reason the parade of hunting games keeps on coming, From Cabela Shoots a rock that sort of looks like a Bear to NRA Varmint Hunter (which one's fake?), these "games" make the Army Men series look like Final Fantasy. Sluggy controls, sloppy graphics, horrible sound, bare bottom production values... if you can screw something up in a game, you'll see it here. And if you've played one, you've played them all.

Granted, these titles are meant to be cheap and are designed for a totally different type of person. You know, the kind of person that sees a game where you can't move at all and will spend more time watching grass blow in the wind than shooting anything and call it "unbelievably accurate." Yeah, that's accurate all right, but how can you call it fun? It's not like a sports game where there's some action to offset the fact you're not outside playing the game yourself - here you're pretending to sit perfectly still and wait for something to waltz into your field of view. Chalk it up to different lifestyles, whatever, but don't they want to play a game that actually works? Real hunters have to be offended by these clunkers, hardcore gamers shun the very idea of them and even casual outlets like Entertainment Weekly called Big Game Hunter a "first-rate hiking simulator." Enough please.

And in the span of writing this paragraph, seven more hunting games just sprouted up in a Target store near you.

Above: They have to make the bear as evil as possible so you don't feel bad for him being in this game

1 - The plug 'n' play rip-off factories
Number of games in series - offensive
Average score from Metacritic - No one bothered

You realize every time you pay for one of these atrocities Nintendo has to fire someone, right? The claim of "50 games in 1 controller!" is nothing new, but when they come encased in a rip-off Nintendo 64 controller and feature games that are clearly hacks of established NES titles, you've got to be able to smell the crap emanating from the mall standee. Each and every one of these awful concoctions is a poem - nay, a thrash-metal orchestra - of what not to do when designing a game. Our favorite has to be Ultra Doggy, which has a title screen depicting a monstrous canine terrorizing a nuclear wasteland. The actual game is a clone of Frogger. Lovely.

Aside from the inherent evil that comes with purchasing one of these "bargains," you've also got to deal with how freaking ugly these bastards are. A knock-off N64 controller is one thing, but have you seen the one that looks like the Dreamcast's aborted love child? It's shockingly ugly. Then come the bright red ones with misplaced buttons and steering wheels that look like evolutionary missteps gone awry. Simply put, the controllers are as impractical as the games are laughable.

Some companies, like Namco and Konami, have jumped into the fray by offering their own set of licensed titles on one machine, but the price just isn't right. You're better off buying a PS2 compilation or you know, finding them at pawn shops. It's not too hard. Just please stop buying these things, for all that is good and decent in the world. At least the other titles on this list are actual games that people put some iota of effort into creating - the "power play" controllers (we're looking at you, dreamGEAR) are nothing but money yanked right of deserving developers' wallets.