Since Duke Nukem Forever was announced...

[Lazybones]

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Popular Video Game Series Releases
Final Fantasy:

    * Main Series
          o Final Fantasy VII
          o Final Fantasy VIII
          o Final Fantasy IX
          o Final Fantasy X
                + Final Fantasy X-2
          o Final Fantasy XI
          o Final Fantasy XII
    * Cell Phone Games
          o Before Crisis: Final Fantasy
          o Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
          o Dirge of Cerberus: Lost Episode
    * Tactics Series
          o Final Fantasy Tactics
          o Final Fantasy Tactice Advance
    * Crystal Chronicles Series
          o Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
          o Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
          o Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearer
    * Remakes
          o Final Fantasy Collection
          o Final Fantasy Anthology
          o Final Fantasy Chronicles
          o Final Fantasy Origins
          o Final Fantasy I & 2: Dawn of Souls
          o Final Fantasy III DS
    * Games Featuring Final Fantasy Characters
          o Ehrgeiz
          o Kingtom Hearts
          o Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
          o Kingdom Hearts II
    * Movies, Anime Series & Concerts
          o Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within
          o Final Fantasy: Unlimited, Entire Series
          o Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
          o Final Fantasy: Dear Friends, Entire World Tour

Grand Theft Auto:

    * Grand Theft Auto
          o 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
          o 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
          o Link's Awakening DX, Gameboy Color
          o A Link to the Past, Gameboy Advance
          o Ocarina of Time, Gamecube
          o The Zelda Collector Edition, Gamecube
          o Classic NES Series: The Legend of Zelda, Gameboy Advance
          o 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.

Video Game Systems:

    * Microsoft XBOX
    * Microsoft XBOX 360
    * Nintendo GameCube
    * Nintendo Gameboy Color
    * Gameboy Advance
          o Gameboy Advance SP
          o Gameboy Micro
    * Nintendo DS
          o Nintendo DS Lite
    * Sega Dreamcast
    * Sony Playstation 2
          o Sony Slim Playstation 2
    * Sony PSP

    * Over 4500 games were released for the above video game systems in the United States.
    * Over 350,000,000 consoles and handhelds were sold worldwide.

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.

Disasters:

    * There have been 125 hurricanes. 73 in the Atlantic, 52 in the Pacific.
    * There have been over 20 death-toll producing tornado outbreaks in the United States.
    * Over 50 major earthquakes have shaken the world.

Economy:

    * Adjusted for inflation, the average price of gas in the United States has doubled.
    * The Euro was introduced as a new European currency.

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.

Pop Culture:

    * Britney Spears' entire musical career as a pop star has taken place during Duke Nukem Forever's development.
    * Theater box office totals since the announcement are over $2.62 billion.
    * Colin Farrell's entire movie career has also taken place during development.
    * The concept of Bullet Time has been developed, pioneered, and completely run in to the ground.

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.

Sports

    * Since the announcement of Duke Nukem Forever, the single season home run record has been broken. Twice.
    * The Red Sox broke their curse by finally winning the world series.

United States Politics:

    * The Identity of Deep Throat has been revealed.
    * 40 new members have been elected to the Senate.
    * The national debt has increased by over 3 trillion dollars.
    * The national minimum wage has remained $5.15.
    * Bill Clinton finished his presidential term, George W. Bush was elected and re-elected.

World Events:

    * 4 nations have acquired nuclear weapons technology.
    * 19 wars have begun.
    * 5 wars have ended.

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.

[Mr. Analog]

Man, I was playing TIE Fighter when this game was announced, so long ago.