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Age of Empires
Developer(s)	Ensemble Studios
Publisher(s)	Microsoft Game Studios
Release date(s)	October 26, 1996
Genre(s)	RTS
System(s)	Windows, Mac OS
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen
System requirements (help)	90MHz 16MiB 90MiB 1MiB
Expansion pack(s)	Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome
Followed by	Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

This is the first game in the Age of Empires series. For other games in the series see the Age of Empires category.

Age of Empires, abbreviated to AoE or AOE, is a history-based real-time strategy computer game released in 1997. Developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft, the game uses the Genie engine, the same 2D sprite-based game engine used by Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. The game allows the user to play as the leader of a historical tribe or civilization from the Stone Age up until the Iron Age.

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