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1) You don't bother to QA your product on Mac/Windows/whatever. (This is the most likely.)
2) Your programs have trivial GUIs and/or you don't give a whit about the quality of the GUI.
3) Your programs are CLIs and have no GUI at all. (Note that if this is the case, they're still probably wrong on DOS, which is quite different from Unix CLIs.)

Wrong on all 3 accounts. See this: http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=602
One of my codevelopers uses Mac OS X exclusively. Half my test team uses Windows exclusively. My CLI binaries are all for DOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X. It works the same everywhere, even on DOS. The GUI version, I provide binaries for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and the source code so you can compile elsewhere. I'm told it works nicely everywhere, and we even support half a dozen languages some of which you don't all see in one app.

Yeah, slashdotters, go sign up and pay to download roms.

The whole "classic NES" series does make me think that Nintendo views its customers as suckers. I mean, you can easily download a NES emulator and any NES game ever created for free.

Is this legal? No.
Has Nintendo put ANY innovation into these games before rereleasing them? No.
Are Nintendo (or the original developers) receiving any money from NES games anymore? No.

But draw your own conclusions.

I played NHL on it way back in the day. Ir was pretty good, but most people would pull the plug rather than lose the game.

What X-Band did was emulate one control input on each player's system. So I'd be player two on both systems, and you'd be player one (for instance).

Super Mario Kart has worked fine for years, your copy of SMK is probably no good.

The utility here http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/ is closed sourced but exists for a lot of platforms and can tell you if your copy of the game is good or not.

Visit Edge and be sure to visit our forums while you're there.

Visit Edge and be sure to visit our forums while you're there.

There are a ton of video games, and support for games on windows and that is not true on linux.

You can run thousands of games on Linux. Free software exists to run titles designed for NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, Super NES, and many more. Just get a dumper, hook it up to your cartridges, and you're off. (Or just pirate the ROMs.)

Wine is not an emulator. TuxNES is.

Most college students don't need to play games why would they need ms windows?

"Games" don't need Windows. You can hook up a linker from lik-sang, copy all your Game Boy cartridges into your computer, and then run them on VisualBoyAdvance. You can also get the ROMs for many Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and Super NES games at pe2000 and edgeemu; pick up emulators at Zophar's Domain.