The fact that I completely remember all the noises.

As a kid I watched my dad play this almost everyday. I had no clue what was going on but I loved it sm. Everything about this is nostalgia

My first PC game ever. I didn't sleep for days when I 1st played it. Got me addicted to RTS games.

Nothing can beat the music from aoe 1. It's legendary

Okay how is this literally the only video I can find of Age of Empires 1 free play gameplay with no narration? This is a national treasure.

As a kid I played this for hours and it got me to the point that I started to love history, and guess what? As a grown man I am now a historian :D It is so strange to think if not for my brother (who got this game from somewhere) it might be that I would not be a person I am now.

My grandpa introduced me to both this and the second game, I used to try and "advise" him while he played. Even if it was a school day, I would find a way to get in at least one hour of it in the morning. Possibly the best first video game experience in my life.

I remember I was watching my dad play it when I was 4-5 years-old. I liked watching my parents play so much. I guess that's why I watch KZfaq videos now instead of playing games myself xD

God bless you, I remember this game from when I was 5. My Grandpa taught me how to play.

We all remember "photonman and peperonipizza" don't we..

Nostalgie

I remember playing one mission for weeks as a kid cuz i didn't knew english so didnt knew what game wanted me to do lol, but i never got bored playing this masterpiece.Damn the nostalgia is real

This game was so incredibly before it’s time. They still dominate this style of game to this day.

I remember I was dead afraid of lions... I used to imagine how the buildings were inside, Wololo gave me nightmares and the cinemátics (trailer) were an experience to enjoy

I feel like most strategy games nowadays concentrate too much on graphics, which is too flashy but forgot the playable features.

This game speaks to the heart

This is the real feeling of 𝖤 𝖱 𝖤 𝖢 𝖳 𝖴 𝖲

Ah, the good old days where you couldn't even queue stuff.

This game pretty much gobbled up most of my free time during the summer of '98.

This game still very popular in Vietnam. Now they are organizing a winter league where gather many gamer competitive every week

I remember playing this when I was like 8 on my dads computer. Those were the days man

This game brings back sooo many bitter sweet memories for me :(.

Absolute legend of RTS style games... I remember downloading the trial game at 150 mb, it took 2 days on a dial-up internet connection, and god forbid if you lost connection you had to start the download all over...

This brings me back when I was 5. I played the 1st and 2nd game every day and loved it. I'm so happy that aoe 4 is coming out soon!

Coinage - 1k of Gold Pepperoni pizza - 1k of Food Woodstock - 1k of wood Quarry - 1k of Stone

When you thought you had an amazing huge umbeatable army.... went to attack the other side and then get wasted till the last man lol.

Ah, the good old midi musics. The game just feels better with these :)

"Cossacks: European wars" forever in my heart.

All hail Age of Empires.

I love the sound of MIDI music.

Anytime my fiancé orders me to do anything around the house . I make the sheeeehaaaawww sound

I found this video looking for gameplay footage to show a friend of mine what games were like back in the day. So much nostalgia.

12.11 the timing! he saw the enemy killed by those elephants, and he came back to his own villagers like "yeah guys... get the hell out of there."

Ooooohh this feels sooo nostalgic, used to play this with my best friend like all the time

I remember watching my grandpa play Half Life and this on our old XP computer when I was around 5 years old. Gotta love the memories

I absolutely loved this game back in the day ! We had some epic battles back then, brings back memories

Homus!

Omg this brings back so many memories!!! me and my friend used to sleep over all the time to play this all night! We had so much fun even though we didn’t know any English so it was hard to understand what you were supposed to di

Wow,it's nostalgia!! Who is here in 2019???

I remember one of my dorm friends had this game in our first year of university back in 1997. He played it religiously.

Even if i mute this vid. I still hear the sound effects. Crazy

Good times. Its funny you can only create one villager or warrior at a time. Made the game go on longer. Also i really appreciate the animation. Good feels. Brings back great memories.

Watch my dad playing it like crazy, then i was old enough to also play it, but i needed to be good at school for him to allow me to play it once a week. Imagine the rest of the week....everyday was hell xD

I realize now that the boat's noise, when selected, is meant to be the creaking of its wooden frame, but because all the characters use a deep voice very similar to it I guess I always thought it was also a guy talking, saying "ee eee" in a deep voice.

Wololo... Wololo... _(All dislikers are converted into likers)_

Good old days I'm crying

Love this game! Still play it to this day!

played this game when I just little kid at the cafenet, so many good memories

The nostalgia kick

Even if you didnt fight others it was fun and cool enough just to build your way through since the beggining, getting all the resources etc

Only game I played. Still in love. And still playing from the childhood.. ❤️

I still have my uncles copy of AOE from when he was a young adult. He’s 48 now. We sometimes make contests. Start on the same map, same stats, and whoever wins first wins the contest. I miss doing that with him. He lives half way across the United States from me

How I loved this game. Made some great friends online at the time and we’d fight online against other clans.

What a really amazing game. It brings back many memories . Thank you for uploading it

What language are the villagers speaking? All I hear then say is OMAN EISEN ERECTUS ROGAN NU-OMAH EEVOTAH I'm guessing erectus is Latin for 'standing' or something

My childhood right here baby

My childhood. Spent hours and hours on this. I have no idea where I even got this game loo

este juego lo jugue hace 16año he probado mil juegos y jamas le llegarán alos talones a este juego tan legendario que aparte de ser de los mejores de la historia te enseña un poco de historia real

I love how it shortly freezes whenever a new music track starts to play :D

Couldn’t remember this for years I loved playing this when it came out. Such fun

it refreshed my memories i used play it when i was 6 i had no idea how meaningful was it thanks bro

Nostalgia. Best game music themes of all time

im 14 but somehow this is the game that i first played as a kid. i found it in an old garage sale and put it in my computer. loved it so much. i think it was the rise of rome one.

I miss Age of Empire 1 and Red alert 2 so much, i played those games ALOT when i was younger those game hade some much replayability and their where so much fun and i enjoyed them alot, and watching this gameplay gives me so much flashbacks from Age of Empire 1

I was around 10 when i started playing this game for the first time. It was wonderful. Feels like there's unimaginable adventure awaits. What is hiding in those black area of the map? What are these button do? What these buildings do? I t felt like i found a treasure

I got this game from my NutriGrain cereal box in Australia :) oh these were the good old days

Memories... I remember during the installation those units moving back and forth at the bottom and top of the screen :D It was all quite "new" and impressive to me this days

always watched my older brother playing because he had more of a strategy than my 7 year old self. you really gotta maintain shit to win. The key is getting to the next age very quick and producing soldier units as well as building a defense with watch towers. Upgrading the watch towers making them ballistas is the move.

My first favourite game!! I feel nostalgic😥😥😥😥

From where shall I download this game for windows

First played this game in 2010, I was young starting it off, booted off a old burned CD from my older brother when he used to game late 90s to early 2000s, gotta say I never played the game for awhile but when I played it again in 2018 it was so nostalgic, 4 years later I’m rocking definitive edition which I got a few days ago, the first age of empires alongside AOE II will be by far my most loved strategy games of all time 👑

these sounds make me nostalgic. This is my childhood favorite and I could not stop trying to win the Death match

nostalgie i remember playing that when i was 10 years old

I don't know how but, my dad bought this game when I was 6 years old. Several years later, my family's computer crashed. Now I am 17 years old, and I wish to play that game again. :')

Reminds me of the sleepless nights playing this game and forgetting the worries of earthly life ❤

Crazy. I remember walking into a Radio Shack with my older brother and watching him play this on one of their demo PC's they had set up.

Ahhh....Those memories! I still play it online on GameRanger and last time I played aoe1 was now 15 minutes=))

Age of Empires, Warcraft 3, Empire Earth, and Stronghold have immensely strong similarities in gameplay style. There are to some extent small differences between them, however core gameplay remains similar meaning if a person enjoy playing one of these sorts of strategy games there's a strong possibility that they'll enjoy all of them. I haven't played every game in every series, i played most of Age of Empires series and Stronghold series but i'm assuming Warcraft and Empire Earth series remained the same or not? In Warcraft 3 and Age of Empires 1 the UI or HUD is big which is annoying because it takes up almost half the damn screen, however in Age of Empires Definitive Edition and Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition you are able to adjust the size of the UI which is brilliantly magnificent. Empire Earth and Stronghold which is first in the series has a small UI which is superb they definitely did it the proper way at it's commencement seeing those games are the first games in the franchise. In Empire Earth while a citizen is busy building a structure you slowly see the structure becoming larger and larger raising upwards until completion which is cool, in Age of empires and Warcraft 3 the foundation is laid the villagers built it, in Stronghold you simply place a building on the map there is no villager which construct buildings, that's why i say there's differences between all the aforementioned games, yet they are akin to each other. The first stronghold doesn't have skirmish mode but it was added in stronghold Crusader it's splendid. I enjoy all of these excellently superlative PC strategy video games.

2:59 - Lazy workers lingering about and goofing around, trying to dodge work... The memories...

Memories flood back being a little kid playing this way to much

I swear, everytime I played this game, I wod get terrified of the dead animal bones cause I was just a little kid that had no idea how to play the game, and I would be scared of the music too lmao

That OST is epic

the music will randomly get stuck in my head.. nostalgic

I always remember it being difficult but I tried playing it the other day as an adult and the farm campaign was impossible on easy!

A esto amigos se le puede llamar un verdadero juego de imperios nostalgia 😥

Esse jogo fez parte da minha infância, pqp que nostalgia.

goddd i used to force my uncle to play this all the time so i could watch... those were the days!

These sounds bring good memories. But I didn't remember how old school the music was !

Interestingly me as a little kid used to think eagles (or other birds) are a source of food too, so I took few archers and we shot the bastard down. The bird exploded… as if it was hit by the ballista… I was like: _WWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY????????????_

Thank you so much for the nostalgia! 😢😢😁😁

Being born in the 90s some of my earliest childhood memories were of watching my mom playing this.

This brings back memories... But sadly other games or apps have stolen video or sound from this amazing creation...

I want to buy it again 😍

Needs to use cheats like 'reveal map' and 'no fog' to save time.

It is crazy even after 18 years of playing it i still remember the sound from a building before he clicks on it it pops up in my head Pure nostalgia

What a great game!!! I remember playing this for long hours!

I want to play this game now 😩

Golden age games like age of empires 1,2 Stronghold (Crusader)

Perfect for focus at work. Thanks

I remember figuring out that when you alt tabbed out of the game and back, the midi music turned into piano music. I was astonished. Somstimes I miss being so easily entertained.