AGE OF EMPIRES 1 WINDOWS

The player can bring his civilization into the next age to make better weapons, armor, and ships available. Players start with an empire that is in one of four 'ages' – the Stone Age, Tool Age, Bronze Age, or Iron Age – which means that only certain technologies are available. Naturally, conquest is the ultimate goal. You command one of 12 historical empires and help them develop their economy, food supply, technology, and military. The first game in the popular Age of Empires series.

Windows-compatible sound card with speakers or headphones to hear audio.Ģ8.8-Kbps (or faster) modem for head-to-head play. Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device.ĭouble-speed CD-ROM drive for gameplay (quad-speed CD-ROM drive for cinematics). Local Bus SVGA video display (with 1 MB of VRAM).

AGE OF EMPIRES 1 WINDOWS

Microsoft Windows 95 operating system, or Windows NT Workstation 4.0 with Service Pack 3.ġ6 megabytes (MB) of RAM for Windows 95, or 24 MB of RAM for Windows NT (or Windows 95 for an 8-player multiplayer game).

Personal computer with a Pentium 90 or higher processor. Advancement between ages is researched at the Town Center, and each advancement brings the player new technologies, weapons, and units.Notice: Undefined index: educational,rts in /home/classicd/domains//public_html/includes/classes/software.php on line 91 These are the Stone Age (Mesolithic/Paleolithic), the Tool Age (Neolithic/Chalcolithic), the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. The civilizations are sorted into four distinct architectural styles, based on East Asian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Greek architecture, which determine their in-game appearance.Ī major component of the game is the advancement through four ages. Each civilization has technologies unique to them, so that no civilization possesses all the technologies possible within the game. Twelve civilizations are available, each with individual sets of attributes, including a varying number of available technologies and units. Resources must also be preserved, as no new resources become available as the game progresses, meaning, if you cut a tree down, the tree will not come back. To assure victory, the player must gather resources in order to pay for new units, buildings and more advanced technology.

A compilation of the original Age of Empires and its expansion was later released as Age of Empires: Gold Edition.Īge of Empires requires the player to develop a civilization from a handful of hunter-gatherers to an expansive Iron Age empire. Despite this, it received generally good reviews, and an expansion pack, Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome was released in 1998. Originally touted as Civilization meets Warcraft, some reviewers felt that the game failed to live up to these expectations when it was released. The game allows the user to act as the leader of an ancient civilization by advancing it through four ages, (Stone Age, Tool Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age) gaining access to new and improved units with each advance. Developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft, the game uses the Genie, a 2D sprite-based game engine. Age of Empires (often abbreviated to AoE or AofE), is a history-based real-time strategy computer game released in 1997.

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