2 Duke Nukem Forever Demo by File Planet

The "Chinese Democracy" of video games. Arguably one of the most highly anticipated (and at this point it's less of a hype-before-the-prequels-came-out anticipation and more of a long-line-at-a-ride-you-don't-even-like-at-Disneyland-in-blazing-hot-weather waiting game) games of all time, Duke Nukem forever is the follow-up to a game that took people's favorite movie one-liners, a badass that makes the main guy from Doom look like a wimp and killer monsters and made them into one of the first great first person shooters.

Ironically, the announcement of the sequel came in April of 1997, which really makes the release of this game (or the non-release) the most cruel joke in video game history.

After many stops and starts in the game's development cycle, between 1997 and 2008, news about the games "impending release" came out on a near-yearly basis. Each time disappointing gamers with the news that it, sadly, was not coming out.

Duke Nukem Forever is so appropriately named because that's how long it's taken it to come out. It's the dead-beat father of video games. It gave us some great times and keeps saying it's going to come around, but never fails to disappoint.

It was supposed to come out sometime in 2009, but didn't because one of the companies in development went through massive downsizing, then the case went to court. After that it was announced that after 13 years, it would be officially released in May of 2011... only to be delayed until mid June of 2011.

Needless to say, it's a frustrating fight, which is what makes this prank played by FilePlanet (a video game downloading site) that much more cruel.

The prank? A link to the demo with a promotional screenshot of the game. It's free! It even has a "Download" button!... but it doesn't work. The whole thing was probably one of the most disappointing experiences in a lot of internet browsers' lives.