Through it all, Vaporware Survives!
Wired pegs it: "Companies like Valve, TiVo and 3D Realms Entertainment have been nominated year after year, sometimes for the same elusive product, sometimes for different wares. But one thing doesn't change: These tardy firms continue to over-promise and under-deliver."

3D Realms and Duke Nuken get lifetime achievement awards, but that's not the full list. The top ten follows:

1. Phantom Game Console
2. CherryOS
3. Microsoft's Longhorn
4. TiVoToGo
5. ATI's Radeon X800 series of video cards
6. Gran Turismo 4
7. Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms
8. Apple Computer's G5 Chips at 3 GHz
9. Intel's Pentium 4 at 4 GHz
10. Alienware's Video Array