I'd always assumed that Champions Online was a stand alone game, rather than spiritual successor to an earlier one.
Seriously did CO kick your puppy or something? Just let it go.
but it wasn't even the worst game on the Atari 2600 (compare anything by Mythicon, anything by Playaround, and, the game usually cited by actual Atari fans as the worst game for the console, Karate by Froggo), let alone ever.
My pick for worse Atari 2600 game was "Swordquest: Earthworld" (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordquest ). The only redeeming feature that monstrosity had was the mini comic book that came with it. Once I had gotten the hang of playing ET, I actually used to enjoy it as a diversion from time to time. There were certainly less pleasant games in my library.
There are certain products and movies that people make sort of a meme out of bashing. I used to ask my friends who declared Waterworld to be a horrible movie what they didn't like about it, compared to other post-apoc or fantasy films of much lower quality. The typical answer was that it went over budget and lost a lot of money, meta elements that should be *irrelevant* to ones enjoyment of a film (and that is ignoring the fact that it did eventually break even financially). Several of them, when I told them to try and ignore the budget issues and just think watch the film on its own merits, reconsidered their view and started thinking of it as mediocre or even "halfway-decent".
