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Duke Nukem 3D was one of the most fun 3d shooters ever. However, the sequel has been in development since 1996. For 10 years, fans have been waiting for a true sequel to the game. For 10 years, some of the following things have happened...

The following things have happened since Duke Nukem Forever was announced...

Popular Video Game Series Releases

Final Fantasy:

• Main Series


• Final Fantasy VII


• Final Fantasy VIII


• Final Fantasy IX


• Final Fantasy X


• Final Fantasy X-2


• Final Fantasy XI


• Final Fantasy XII

Grand Theft Auto:

• Grand Theft Auto


• Grand Theft Auto, Gameboy Color Port


• Grand Theft Auto


• Grand Theft Auto: London 1969


• Grand Theft Auto: London 1961


• Grand Theft Auto 2


• Grand Theft Auto III


• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City


• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas


• Grand Theft Auto Advance


• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories


• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, PS2 Port


• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories


• Grand Theft Auto IV

The Legend of Zelda:

• Ocarina of Time


• Majora's Mask


• Oracle of Ages


• Oracle of Seasons


• The Wind Waker


• Four Swords Adventures


• The Minish Cap


• Six remakes of previous Zelda titles for the Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance and Gamecube.


• Link's Awakening DX, Gameboy Color


• A Link to the Past, Gameboy Advance


• Ocarina of Time, Gamecube


• The Zelda Collector Edition, Gamecube


• Classic NES Series: The Legend of Zelda, Gameboy Advance


• Classic NES Series: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Gameboy Advance


• Phantom Hourglass


• Twilight Princess

Other Popular Game Series:

• Over 75 games based in the MegaMan universe, and 12 games featuring MegaMan universe character cameos.


• Over 50 games based in the Star Wars universe.


• Mario has appeared in 58 different video games.


• Every Massive Multiplayer Online game and expansion with the exception of Meridian 59.


• Every Dance Dance Revolution and Bemani rhythm game


• Every Pokemon game released outside of Japan.


• Every Unreal, every Unreal Tournament, and every game that has used any of the Unreal engines.


• Quake 2, 3, 4, and countless games that have used their engines.


• Every Tony Hawk and extreme sport spin-off game.


• Daikatana began development 10 days before Duke Nukem Forever- Unfortunately no one was made John Romero's bitch
  when it hit retail shelves on May 23rd, 2000.


• 3DRealms and Remedy bring Max Payne and its sequel from concepts to finished games, porting both to Xbox and PS2.


• Valve released both Half-Life 1 and 2, with several expansion packs and countless mods for each.


• Every version of Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike Source were developed.


• Every Thief game.


• Black Isle was formed, released seven titles and was shut down.


• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and IV:Oblivion, and the entire Baldur's Gate series.


• Wizards of the Coast has printed six Core Sets, 30 Expansion Sets of Magic: The Gathering. If someone bought one of every single card printed since DNF was announced, they would have a collection of approximately 101,742 cards.


• Every installment of Metal Gear Solid released to date, as well as Ghost Babel (MGS for the Gameboy) and the Metal Gear Acid series for PSP.
  And it is likely that the the apparent conclusion of Solid Snake's legacy, "Guns of the Patriots," will come out before DNF.


• A garage full of programmers in Croatia (Croteam) developed the engine and created the game Serious Sam. Since then there have been
  multiple sequels and console ports- all off a fraction of the money 3D Realms has blown on DNF's development.


• Every 3D Prince of Persia game.


• Aside from Wolfenstein 3D, every single First Person Shooter based during World War II, including the entire Medal of Honor series.


• While DNF has been in production, Blizzard Entertainment, another studio famous for delays, has released four full games(Starcraft, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, and World of Warcraft), with expansions for three (four when Burning Crusade comes out).


• Bioware released Neverwinter Nights with two expansions, Star Wars: Nights of the Old Republic, and Jade Empire. All games are deep, lengthy RPGs that demand multiple playthroughs.

Video Game Systems:

• Microsoft XBOX


• Microsoft XBOX 360


• Nintendo GameCube


• Nintendo Gameboy Color
  
• Gameboy Advance


• Gameboy Advance SP


• Gameboy Micro


• Nintendo DS


• Nintendo DS Lite


• Sega Dreamcast


• Sony PSone


• Sony Playstation 2


• Sony Slim Playstation 2


• Sony PSP

I'd like to add that the PS3 and Nintendo Wii are out as well. Wii kicks ass.

Fun Facts

Computers & Internet:

• In 1997, the fastest consumer internet connection was a 33.6 kbps modem.
  On average, consumer internet connections are 300 times faster today.


• When Duke Nukem Forever was announced, the fastest processor available to consumers was a 233Mhz Pentium. Since then the clock speed of consumer
  processors has increased over 16 times (32 times counting dual cores), and the fabrication process has decreased from 250nm to 65nm.


• In October of 2001, Apple announced the iPod and Slashdot dismissed it as an immediate failure. Since then there have been 5 generations of iPods, as well as the
  iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, and iPod Nano with 42 million iPods sold worldwide as of 1/06.


• Steve Jobs was still running NeXT when Duke Nukem Forever was announced.


• Every peer to peer file sharing program including Napster was developed.


• In April of 1997, Google, eBay, and the term "weblog" didn't exist.


• Linux gained at least 10 times the popularity it had while its kernel tripled in size.


• Mac OS switched to UNIX and became the most highly regarded general purpose operating system on the market
  among the computing press.


• Microsoft released 5 consumer-oriented
  versions of Windows and might release Vista before Duke Nukem Forever hits shelves.


• Netscape Navigator 4 was released, Microsoft Internet Explorer destroyed it.
  Netscape 6 released on an entirely different rendering platform, Netscape dies, Mozilla foundation rises.
  Open-source Mozilla browsers become popular and force Microsoft to start working on new version of Internet Explorer.


• Valve releases Steam and sets a new standard in digital software distribution.


• MySpace has gone from beta to the largest social-networking site in the world (and the fourth most popular English language website).

Movies that were filmed, released in theatres, and have made it to DVD:

• All three Star Wars prequels.


• The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, with extended editions.


• Every Pixar movie aside from Toy Story.


• Three (possibly four) James Bond films.


• Every movie, animation, and video game from The Matrix series.


• Every Marvel comics movie released.


• Each predictable twist ending of every movie by M. Night Shyamalan.

Science & Technology:

• The Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled 8.8 billion miles from Earth.


• The two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity were proposed, authorized,
  announced, designed, launched and successfully landed upon Mars where they
  have been exploring the surface for over 2.5 years.


• NASA's Deep Impact program also went full circle.


• The International Space Station was assembled and has been orbiting Earth for over 8 years.


• NASA has launched 30 manned space shuttle missions, Russia has launched 17.


• The Airbus A380 "Super Jumbo" plane was designed, built, tested, and delivered to airlines.


• Tier One developed, built, tested, and launched SpaceShipOne- winning the Ansari X-Prize
  for being the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.


• In 1997 there were only 50 million US cell phone subscribers in the United States. Today there are more than 200 million,
  which amounts to over 60% of the population of the USA.


• The U.S.S. Ronald Reagan (the largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the world) was in contract, built, launched, comissioned, and began active duty.


• Costa Concordia, the biggest Italian cruise liner was designed, built and delivered by the Fincantieri shipyards, in Italy.


• The Space Shuttle Columbia burnt up during re-entry, the entire Space Shuttle program went through a safety overhaul, and the Shuttle returned to flight.

Things that have taken less time than Duke Nukem Forever's Development:

Pop Culture:

• The Beatles formed, released every single one of their albums and broke up. During this time they also toured the world
  several times.


• Led Zeppelin released 7 albums, 9 singles, and toured around the world, crossing international borders 27 times (not counting mainland Europe.)

Science & Technology:

• The Wright brothers designed and flew the first airplane.


• The theory of General Relativity.


• The United States' entire program to put a man on the moon, from Kennedy's challenge to the landing.

Wars:

• The American War for Independence


• The United States Civil War


• World War I


• World War II and the entire Manhattan Project.


• The United State's involvement in the Vietnam War.