Trivia / Duke Nukem

• Keep Circulating the Tapes: At the moment, Forever and the 20th Anniversary World Tour version of 3D are the only titles in the series that haven't suffered this fate at some point, with the first two and Manhattan Project having been pulled when the license switched over to Gearbox with the single exception of Zoom Platform.
  • However, the Evercade has remastered versions of the first two games, as well as emulations of Total Meltdown (the PS1 version of 3D), Duke Nukem Advance, Time to Kill and Land of the Babes in two cartridges. They're still not on any other modern platform, but it's a start.
• What Could Have Been: Duke Nukem: Critical Mass was originally going to be the first game of a planned trilogy by Apogee alongside the cancelled titles Duke Nukem: Chain Reaction and Duke Nukem: Proving Grounds. Those plans were nuked after the negative reception of the first game and Gearbox now owning the franchise.
  • Plans for a Duke Nukem movie were in the works since the late 90s with Laurence Kasanoff's company Threshold Entertainment producing it but those plans fell through. A film by Max Payne producer Scott Faye was also considered. At one point Michael Bay was in considerations to direct the film with John Cena cast to play Duke. Although in a 2017 IGN interview with Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford hinting that a Duke Nukem film is still in the works.
  • A 1997 PC Gamer article on Duke Nukem Forever claimed that there were plans for a line of Duke Nukem novels, to be published by Pocket Books. While Shadow Warrior (1997) did get a few books onto shelves, Duke never did.
  • Duke Nukem: Endangered Species was a game planned during the period of time Forever was in development, but the game was removed from the franchise. Unlike other examples, the developers of that game later released the title as a stand-alone game, Vivisector: Beast Within.