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Age of Empires

Grafted historical age-advancement economics onto real-time strategy combat.

Released 1997 Developer Ensemble Studios Publisher Microsoft Platform PC Genre RTS Era The 3D rupture

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Age of Empires inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Turn-Based 4X Empire 1991Real-Time Base and Unit Production 1992Fog of War 1992Networked Deathmatch 1993

The Age of Empires series in this dataset

1997
Age of Empires this page
1999

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