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Game developer Take Two is shuttering, taking with it the perpetual development of Duke Nukem Forever, a mere 12 years after it was first announced. You might be surprised what's happened in the interim:
-- 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.
-- The entire Harry Potter series as well as five movies.
-- In April of 1997, Google, eBay, and the term "weblog" didn't exist.
Many, many more at the site, though we pedants will take exception to the assertion of "Every Marvel comics movie released," as I can remember at least three pre-1999 (and one that escapes on a technicality).
-- 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.
-- The entire Harry Potter series as well as five movies.
-- In April of 1997, Google, eBay, and the term "weblog" didn't exist.
Many, many more at the site, though we pedants will take exception to the assertion of "Every Marvel comics movie released," as I can remember at least three pre-1999 (and one that escapes on a technicality).
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1997 was the year I was thirteen/fourteen. Not a very memorable year for me, although a few things do stand out - that was the summer my mother started letting me bike all the way out to my best friend's house (a few miles away), rather than just around the neighborhood. We were starting high school that fall, and the place we were attending was just down the way from her house, so we biked out to visit it once. My parents hadn't quite gotten divorced yet, but my mother had made my father start sleeping in the study, and there were fewer huge arguments and more quiet discussions about arrangements. I was hopelessly addicted to Frontier: Elite II and spent lots of time playing it on my father's Amiga, including when I wasn't supposed to but there wasn't anyone home to stop me (a trick he got wise to when he started coming home and finding his CRT monitor was warm). Come to think of it, that was really the last year I had anything resembling a relationship with my father - with the combination of the divorce and me going through puberty, he sort of got stuck there and was never able to relate to me as any older than that. And on the rare occasions when we meet now, we're practically strangers.
Huh, that got maudlin fast. Ah, well. Thanks for the opportunity to dredge up those memories. :)
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And bonus Amiga points! Still have one in the basement. Tried to give one away and accidentally gave away my Master's degree. Got it back, though, because I've needed it for.... *shrug*
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Come to that, almost the entire genre of the MMORPG fits into those twelve years.
Hmmm, 1997 was also the year before I met my wife. That does put things in perspective.
Okay, thinking hard -- Punisher, a Fantastic Four and Captain America that never saw the light of projectors... and I'm coming up blank. Enlighten, please?
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(Can you blame me?)
I saw some footage from the FF movie at ComicCon, and... yeah. Not their greatest effort. And Cap with the plastic ears on the costume -- high cinema there.
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The 1990 Captain America film was released in theaters, just not in the U.S.
Ditto the 1989 Punisher film. (Though it apparently got screened at a film festival last year?!)
And, of course, there's that 1986 film that laid an egg.
Blade was 1998, and thus pre-1999, but post development beginning on DN:F
And there were a whole peck of pre-1997 made-for-TV movies.
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Take THAT Maudlin!!