yeah man I'll never forget it; had a windows 98 computer; it came with Age of Empires disc and I'm like wtf... is this...I was only 13, and it started me on middle of screen and I'm like wtf...I mean...man...then I played online...got sandwhiched between two assyrians...I begged them to let me live, like I really begged them, who does that nowadays in multiplayer; begging to spare one's life...I'm a starcraft2 player now, but I'll never forget Age of Empires, in fact, I'll remember it before my last breath...
I bought this game back in 1998 for $20. Played in my old compaq and I recall playing for hours and hours to no end. I got my friends in the neighborhood to play this so we all played together. We were kids so naturally, this fed our imagination to play like age of empires in real life ( minus the bloodshed ). The apartment community I had lived at had a bunch of kids from ages 6-12. My neighbor's father worked in metal fabrication and construction and he lets us use some of the metal scraps to build "greek" armor and "greek" swords. We dumpster-dived and found old wooden broomsticks and turned them into "hoplite" dori spears. Our shields were trash cans and often times - we parted out existing wooden cabinet planks and turned them into shields. We used to have pitched battles in the nearby apartment community field. It would be 10 vs 10. We would often flip a coin to see which team are in the stone age and have to use really crappy homemade axes. The other team will have hoplite spears and shields. We used to make makeshift bows until a smart ass in our group decided to sharpen the tip of the arrows and actually hit someone on the arm. So we banned bows. Just swords, axes and shields. We formed our formations but lacked the discipline. We kids literally hit each other. There was blood, there were tears and we fought like animals. We even took things to the ground! To this day there are no accounts of someone that yielded. We were tough kids and we always played from 5pm-8pm. Best childhood ever. We kept this up until 2001 and the cost of rent in the apartments got expensive and families moved out. Only myself and my neighbor were the only ones left. We did " train " a few newcomers but it was not the same and eventually dissipated. Time got a hold of and we got older. I found out years later most of us are now avid ancient greek history buffs, a few of the original "warband" became metallurgists and engineers. A few became history teachers teaching ancient history and military warfare. Some are home designers who design greek/roman inspired homes in California. The neighbor that I grew up with are like family to me and he became a construction engineer just like his father. His father designs ancient rome murials and ancient greek stone carvings for mansions. We have a project next year to seal our legacy of building our own swords and shield - properly. The swords will engrave each of the original kids names of 1998-2001.
Many ppl thought games rotted our brains but games such as AOE brought a lot out of our imaginations as we strove to be like the fierce brave warriors of the Bronze and Iron Age. AOE really helped supplant my love for ancient history.
***** that long? really? the only problem was against multiple cpu's^^ still love this game. but latest cone of this i played was a star wars version of AOE II---->really awesome a must try
Mine had pentium 1 processor with 133mhz clock speed 32mb ram and 6 GB hard disk 😁 i used to play duke nuken, nfs 2, wwf on DOS, mortal combat tribology, road rush,star craft, age of empire, commandos. I really miss those games
In my opinion this first game is the hardest of the entire franchise. I've easily beaten AoE II campaign and usually play AoE III in hard difficulty without an issue but oh man, this game... I can't even win a single game in normal difficulty.
I always try to outlast them on resources.. Raid their farms and fishing boats, once they ran out, I'd pounce... In AOE2 I sometimes couldn't apply that though, because of better AI and them building wonders in the later missions
I played AOE on the Zone. Had many good matches mainly got into Wonder racing, made a few custom maps for Wonder racing with trees to prevent attacking.
And it showed the majesty of human civilization being born. It is gruesome with the blood of battle but it builds something that stands for thousands of years.
So I have this theory about why old videogame music is so memorable. At first I thought it was just subjective, it's just that we were kids back then and thus enjoyed things more. But I believe there's something more to it. I believe the MIDI and mod formats forced the composers to create clean and yet catchy melodies. Nowadays it's hard for me to remember videogame music. But when it comes to Gameboy games, PC music from MIDI files, etc.... I can remember the songs note for note. I also believe that because the sound is "purer" (it's easier to hear clean notes) maybe it's easier for our brain to memorize these songs. Just thinking out loud. Thanks for uploading this OST 😃
You only have to look at the new orchestrally remastered tracks, they have so much more stuff in them and changes a lot making it take far longer to memorise it. The AoE2 DE ones seem a bit cleaner than AoE1 DE. I can remember them after a while of listening as a music track
Take the medal of Honor allied assault theme music for another example I remember that so well, even though I still play it to this day on multiplayer, it's one I'll remember for a long time.
I think it's a "steel table" kinda thing. A steel table may be precise, look clean, and stable, but there's nothing memorable about it. Conversely, a wooden table may have a few Knicks in it, may not be as precise, but is memorable
It always plays at the beginning of the game. Most nostalgic and iconic track of the whole game imo. Unless you have ROR or the gold edition, then the tracks are different (Worse imo)
Either on amazon/online or wait a few months and get the remastered version on the windows store (Has a classic mode which will be just like the original). You may also be able to find it in stores, although I bet it isn't that common anymore.
I absolutely love the OPENING 0:00 of this soundtrack...Truly sounds like primitive man has "woken up" and now found himself in the uncertain struggle of early civilization
+ruassmarkt I loved that while exploring the map in the beginning!! This game is almost litteraly the reason why I started being interested in history. To think I went studying history many years later.
I'll never forget the thousands of times I started a new game to 2:14. Such an incredible opening track. First ever game I bought as a kid (with dads help taking it to the counter to pay!)
Perfect. I love how anachronistic, ambient and minimalist it is, gives an unique vibe to this historical strategy. Definitive Edition's orchestral arrangements, while impressive in their own right, can't hold a candle to this.
Indeed, the simplicity from the stone age drum and pipe to the musical cords in the Post-Iron Age hinted subtly to the advancement of the culture, it's a major reason to why I don't enjoy the DE-version.
2:15 always had a special feeling for me. It somehow conjured a feeling of how it was like when mankind was still young, became self aware and started its epic journey, while still facing so many unknowns.
Wow. Just stumbled across this soundtrack. Haven't listened to these tracks in many years, but they are still crisp and vivid in my mind from lots of playtime in the past. I think "Cave" is my favorite at 2:15.
I wish someone made a mod. Anyway, there's are two ,,new" rts, called 0 A.D. and Hegemony: Clash of the Ancients, roughly playing at the same period and they have similar gameplay. Go check them out.
From the (caves) that humans lived in to the (gray skies) of the remains of fallen civilizations and the rise of new ones. This soundtrack marks the rise of civilization. I love it so much.
played this since i was 4, its hard to articulate the mysticism of those long hours spent in the dark computer room on the 98... amassing my little civ, will always cherish this game... :)
I remember playing this game when I was 5. It's what started my love of military tech. The mission builder was so much fun when I was 7, and lead to me eventually modding games and from there get a software job because of my coding knowledge. Now I'm working on a videogame in my spare time. I owe a lot to this game.
this sound rembemer me for the time i was a little child with 6 or 7 years and i played this game. it was my first really good game and i loved it so mutch! i played it every day for 30 minutes after homework form basic school :D after it i went out and play in the nature :D good old times. good old game! :D
I feel kind of sad for children nowadays cause they may have extremely nice graphics and fast action open world games but they will never learn the feeling of playing games like Age of Empires and Red Alert... Feel so good as a kid had those games on my dad's pc and I thank him for that cause I did not have to win or even knew what to do I kinda played it cause it was (is) so awesome game...
+Quarker i played it once at my friends house and loved it, so he burned another disc for me. My mum ended up smashing it because i spent so much time on it!
The memories! Hey, who has memories? I surely do, about this game anyway. My father and (now late) grandfather were off to buy me an educational game. They tried to get one called "Socrates", but could not find it. However, they saw this game in the store, and both being history freaks (as well as I am today), agreed this was a perfect choice just by looking at the cover. I mean, holy shit, they were right! This was THE BEST GAME EVER at the time! I want to thank both my father and grandfather right here, right now, as I am listening to this awesome soundtrack, and just say that you are (or in my grandfather's case, were) plain awesome.
It's crazy how heavily this game has influenced so many people. I got it as a gift when it came out, I was 12. Still here listening to this music at age 31. 2:14 can still stir in me that same sense of wonder it always did... just glorious.
this game came in a cereal box for me as a special, it was on of my first PC games, I used to play it with my sister, we didnt really know what we were doing but gosh the memories! I was about 7
This game was and still is awesome, I shows how great civilizations build them selves up just to either be wiped out by war, destroyed by it self by depleting all the worlds natural resources.
hothmandon The circle of life. I think there was nothing better to learn history than AoE. I only knew about the Syracus story or the Carthago one cause of this game.
For some reason Death was always the first song in my original copy of the game. All it wanted to make me do was get out of the Stone age ASAP. Hunt would often play when I was in the Bronze age when I was caught off guard being harrassed by the enemy. Wally has to be my favorite and I think I subconsciously went all in when it would start playing. Sometimes the odds weren't in your favor but it was always glorious.
I'm running the old soundtrack in the background of the new version. I've been using the HD patch for years but I have to say, maybe due to low expectations with these "remasters," it's been a worthwhile experience just playing through the Egyptian campaign so far!
I remember I was so scared about loosing villagers in an elephant's hunt that i sent a centurion to kill it ... and I lost all the meat from it. Bug, acid spear or sadism from developpers .... time has never told....
Pareil pas bien vieux.. mon cousin plus agé l'avait, à chaque fois qu'on allait chez lui on y passait l'aprem (lui n'étant déjà plus chez ses parents) mon dieu les souvenirs!
Literally my whole childhood summed up ! This and Gothic 3 ! So many memories! I started playing this at the age of 9 and now when Im 30 I still love playing this anytime I have time ! Age of empires + weed ofocurse ... peace ✌️
Same! :D I remember hearing about a place which had it a little cheaper and traveled there to get it, not sure how old I was, maybe I was about 15 or 16 at the time. Awesome game though, loved it! :D Things just aren't the same anymore!
1:19 I heard a lot of that in the first mission of the Greek campaign. Oh God, the wailing and gnashing of teeth I had as a 15 year old and this game. But now I am pretty damn good at 4X and RTS games - because of the painful lessons the Dorians burnt into my soul.
Ah...the very first strategy-game I ever played. I remember a game where I was down to ten workers and a crap-ton of wall, and the enemy seemed to know I'd lost already so it just sent a single elephant at me. Took me another hour to actually lose, but damn it all, I still enjoy this game.
I had 2 army compositions (playing only the demo, over and over). One was a mass of hoplites, and the other was a mass of chariots just to be able to outrange the towers. Siege is overrated.
I will always remember the day that at my grandmas place on second day of christmas the family would reunite what makes it even more golden I always went on her pc to play this game and sometimes my relatives were aswell this Is a game of legends i was probably around 8 just playing this
+Yan Long i just wanted some more expansions for age of empires 3 :( im really sad they didn't delevoped more the game... the last one of the franchise and they don't even care
+Rgd I would like to see Age of Empires 4 someday. They could make it in ancient ages again (just like first game) with soundtrack that contains original Age of Empires 1 music :)
When I was a kid, a friend of my sisters lent me this and I lent him Heroes of might and magic II. We both later agreed that both games were awesome and I got Age of Empires for Christmas that year. Ah. The times. They were good.
I was just a kid and really bad at this game, but I could play the "Holy Man" map for hours. To this day one of the best designed game stages I've ever seen.
this game was released a year before i was born and yet i spent a large chunk of my childhood playing this already outdated game. that is the magic of this game
24:47 AoE 2's theme comes in for the first time. My cousin told me that the lyrics to the song were "It's time... for the Won-deeer...". And here I was thinking that I imagined all of this up after I played AoE 2.
Thank you so much for these tracks. I really appreciate this. THIS is childhood and youth for me. I had friends and family, a good time with them, but the feeling gaming Age of Empires was always something very special. THIS was my favourite game and will remain until death. So many hours spent building Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian or Choson civilisations! Wololo, friends! ❤️
Oh my god I haven't heard some of these since 1998! I still play AOE occasionally every year, but ever since I had the expansion back in 2000, every time I entered the game I always clicked on the Rise of Rome icon by default. I have completely forgotten that there are so many original AOE music sequences that are NOT in ROR. I just assumed ROR has kept all the original ones and only added the new ones in-between.
I listened to the AoE:DE soundtrack and it was god awfully depressingly garbage I needed to hear the real aoe soundtrack to cleanse my soul of that Win10 non-steam game soundtrack
Слушая эту музыку, я погрузился в нирвану, мысленно перед взором у меня пронесся 1999 год, когда я был мелкий, прогуливал школу и играл в АОЕ1. :) Ностальгия, которую не передать словами.
Im happy i lived when aoe was around. Best childhood ever. Every summer before and after beach id grind this shi for hours... Matserpiece of gameplay, aesthetics, vibe, music...
memories and feeling from my childhood... Thank you Microsoft and Ensemble Studios!! You made so many beautiful moments to my life with Age of Empires!!! Love, Peace!
AoE was my first PC game ever. And one of my favourites of all time. And listening today to this soundtrack, I was shocked when realizing that my children are almost the same age I was when I started playing this masterpiece of a game. :O
24:48 la legendaria música que identifica al AoE, hoy después de jugar años al 1, la escucho por 1ra vez en su versión original. Estoy que exploto de amorr!!! 😍❤
This brings back so many good memories. Wololo was my friend back then. Also I never knew that Gray Sky was the original song for the improved AoE 3 song, that blew my mind. I was like 7 or 8 when I got this game, imagine if a group of people just make an idea of the remake for this game and play online again, but keep the old tracks.
![Age of Empires (1997) + The Rise of Rome Expansion (1998) [Full HQ CD Game OST]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/G9ZwAW5Q7G0/mqdefault.jpg)
![Age of Empires (1997) + The Rise of Rome Expansion (1998) [Full HQ CD Game OST]](/img/tr.png)
This game was so magical to me as a youth
+Doug Vandegrift me 2. before this game. i only thought computers were for education. Keep in mine i started on a tandy computer.
+Saiful Basir 2 out of 3 are the same for me as well! This and NFSII se!
Oh well...those were the times!
I know. I played RoadRash as well. Also RIVEN and around 2000 Diablo2.
+Doug Vandegrift This, Age of Mithology and NFS U2 were the games of my youth.
yeah man I'll never forget it; had a windows 98 computer; it came with Age of Empires disc and I'm like wtf... is this...I was only 13, and it started me on middle of screen and I'm like wtf...I mean...man...then I played online...got sandwhiched between two assyrians...I begged them to let me live, like I really begged them, who does that nowadays in multiplayer; begging to spare one's life...I'm a starcraft2 player now, but I'll never forget Age of Empires, in fact, I'll remember it before my last breath...
I have masters degree in history. Guess who's to blame?
awesome dude. thumb up
i learning ancient bowmaking. guess whos to blame?
Well, Doctrate in History would be something to achieve? lol 😊
I fell in love with history because of AoE. History was the only subject I was exceptional at during school.
I have droped out of university, guess who's to blame ?
I bought this game back in 1998 for $20. Played in my old compaq and I recall playing for hours and hours to no end. I got my friends in the neighborhood to play this so we all played together. We were kids so naturally, this fed our imagination to play like age of empires in real life ( minus the bloodshed ). The apartment community I had lived at had a bunch of kids from ages 6-12. My neighbor's father worked in metal fabrication and construction and he lets us use some of the metal scraps to build "greek" armor and "greek" swords. We dumpster-dived and found old wooden broomsticks and turned them into "hoplite" dori spears. Our shields were trash cans and often times - we parted out existing wooden cabinet planks and turned them into shields. We used to have pitched battles in the nearby apartment community field. It would be 10 vs 10. We would often flip a coin to see which team are in the stone age and have to use really crappy homemade axes. The other team will have hoplite spears and shields. We used to make makeshift bows until a smart ass in our group decided to sharpen the tip of the arrows and actually hit someone on the arm. So we banned bows. Just swords, axes and shields. We formed our formations but lacked the discipline. We kids literally hit each other. There was blood, there were tears and we fought like animals. We even took things to the ground! To this day there are no accounts of someone that yielded. We were tough kids and we always played from 5pm-8pm. Best childhood ever. We kept this up until 2001 and the cost of rent in the apartments got expensive and families moved out. Only myself and my neighbor were the only ones left. We did " train " a few newcomers but it was not the same and eventually dissipated. Time got a hold of and we got older. I found out years later most of us are now avid ancient greek history buffs, a few of the original "warband" became metallurgists and engineers. A few became history teachers teaching ancient history and military warfare. Some are home designers who design greek/roman inspired homes in California. The neighbor that I grew up with are like family to me and he became a construction engineer just like his father. His father designs ancient rome murials and ancient greek stone carvings for mansions. We have a project next year to seal our legacy of building our own swords and shield - properly. The swords will engrave each of the original kids names of 1998-2001.
This story bought tears to my eyes for some reason
Legendary story!!
Fabulous story ! But is it true ?
This dude is a legend!
Many ppl thought games rotted our brains but games such as AOE brought a lot out of our imaginations as we strove to be like the fierce brave warriors of the Bronze and Iron Age. AOE really helped supplant my love for ancient history.
I was 11 years old when this game stole my heart
I had to play for 3 days to win a 1v1 against the computer lol, you're the slowest person when you have no experience with a RTS
***** that long? really? the only problem was against multiple cpu's^^ still love this game. but latest cone of this i played was a star wars version of AOE II---->really awesome a must try
***** Me too... epic game forever.
***** Same here. The music still touches my heart. I would play for hours.
***** I was 3...and I play it since then xD
I had old computer who only could run Age of Empires... that was perfect gaming computer EVER
Mine had pentium 1 processor with 133mhz clock speed 32mb ram and 6 GB hard disk 😁 i used to play duke nuken, nfs 2, wwf on DOS, mortal combat tribology, road rush,star craft, age of empire, commandos. I really miss those games
That pc is a relique
I like your Chanel!!
I also gre up in this situation. I was 18 before I could run touhou project but I could still run AoE since 1997
@@michelkh87 I'm 31 years old and also had a P1 133Mhz, played Duke Nukem 3D, Starcraft, Warcraft 2, Age of empires, Commandos
I remember the sound when a fishing boat was created, TSUNUNEEEEEEE
Wow I thought I forgot that but your comment brought that memory right back
that is curious... For what I studied, Tsununeeeee! is more like "oleleeeeeee!" - A warcry made by greek warriors.
I like the harbour sound itself:
"mh hmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmhh?"
Dude, that "tsununeeee" you typed makes me think of an anime schoolgirl idol or something like that.
i don't think thats japanese....
i tought he said like "eeyy! or like ahoy"
but stununee?? you watch too much anime my boy.
Other people: So what kind of music are you into?
Me: it's complicated.
:D
feel ya man...
That's me. xD
That awkward moment! xdd
@@GabrielProg I like to listen to old MIDI files of old video games
Ah yes, memories of getting frustrated as a little kid and then spawning in the Photon man.
I spammed Big Daddy till that CPU wolololoed one of mine :D
@@UndisputedONE2 to this day I have nightmares of my big daddy being wololo'd. A mistake I won't live to repeat.
'E=mc2 trooper' had me dropping 21st century nuke strikes until wololo wanted some for himself too
Good thing I wasn't aware of photon man back then lol, I would have ruined the game for myself.
but the fastest to type of them all... The legendary baby : POW
an army of babyes with shotguns on tricycles brining hell on wololo
Anyone remember that one of the soldiers used to say "erectus" when you told him to do something? That always cracked me up.
I know what you mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
HOODIS. SOAPS. ALLMALLS. NERVOUS. PABADACUS.
That's funny, as a French I understand other things like "Danlavie?" when you are clicking on a villager
But Roggan still roggan
WoloLOL
wololo, hayahoyoyo, hayahoyoyo, wololo
Ohh my god the nostalgia. I was never any good at this game, but oh my god did I have fun.
In my opinion this first game is the hardest of the entire franchise. I've easily beaten AoE II campaign and usually play AoE III in hard difficulty without an issue but oh man, this game... I can't even win a single game in normal difficulty.
The AI cheats like crazy in this game, IIRC.
I always try to outlast them on resources.. Raid their farms and fishing boats, once they ran out, I'd pounce... In AOE2 I sometimes couldn't apply that though, because of better AI and them building wonders in the later missions
I think AoE I is just hard because of the bad pathfinding and cheating AI. AoE II is much more in depth and can get so damn hard to play online
I played AOE on the Zone. Had many good matches mainly got into Wonder racing, made a few custom maps for Wonder racing with trees to prevent attacking.
2:15 is so nostalgic. I remember waking up early before school to play this game when I was 14. Damn, right in the feels.
Birth of Roggan and Wololo
***** Hommus?
Artmage1 Habadakers?
***** Zu Katah.
***** Abadacus! :D
Borschtii Hoemas
I like how humble the title was back then.
Age of Empires.
"An Epic Game of Empire-Building and Conquest" Nothing more, nothing fancy
when epicness meant something
And it showed the majesty of human civilization being born. It is gruesome with the blood of battle but it builds something that stands for thousands of years.
i miss that kind of titles. It just encouraged us to take the games
Games today - Age of Empires: The Ninth Divide and Conquerer of the Fallen Sword's Who Shall Not Be Named.
Here it is a list about Age of Empires:
ruclips.net/p/PL3bN3qL-ZFiEkSu5YYjqr90A6ywLZlntd
The nostalgia level is TOO DAMN HIGH :D
+Musta Rakish TOO DAMN TRUE
+Musta Krakish sure!!!
+Spainball fuk spayne
Teeehehehehehehehehhzhhzzhzhzhehehehz
Well it is from thousands of years ago. ;)
So I have this theory about why old videogame music is so memorable.
At first I thought it was just subjective, it's just that we were kids back then and thus enjoyed things more.
But I believe there's something more to it. I believe the MIDI and mod formats forced the composers to create clean and yet catchy melodies.
Nowadays it's hard for me to remember videogame music. But when it comes to Gameboy games, PC music from MIDI files, etc.... I can remember the songs note for note.
I also believe that because the sound is "purer" (it's easier to hear clean notes) maybe it's easier for our brain to memorize these songs.
Just thinking out loud. Thanks for uploading this OST 😃
Maybe. It's also easier to memorize things when you are a kid.
interesting perspective, thank you. I think you're right it does sound cleaner, there's not too much layering at any one time
You only have to look at the new orchestrally remastered tracks, they have so much more stuff in them and changes a lot making it take far longer to memorise it. The AoE2 DE ones seem a bit cleaner than AoE1 DE.
I can remember them after a while of listening as a music track
Take the medal of Honor allied assault theme music for another example I remember that so well, even though I still play it to this day on multiplayer, it's one I'll remember for a long time.
I think it's a "steel table" kinda thing.
A steel table may be precise, look clean, and stable, but there's nothing memorable about it.
Conversely, a wooden table may have a few Knicks in it, may not be as precise, but is memorable
0:00 Open
0:57 Win
1:19 Loss
2:15 Cave
5:26 Death
xx:xx Battle
7:32 Gamelan
11:02 Party
13:54 Rain
16:12 Hunt
18:49 Thunder
22:00 Wally
24:48 Gray Sky
chaleeman
It always plays at the beginning of the game. Most nostalgic and iconic track of the whole game imo. Unless you have ROR or the gold edition, then the tracks are different (Worse imo)
Either on amazon/online or wait a few months and get the remastered version on the windows store (Has a classic mode which will be just like the original). You may also be able to find it in stores, although I bet it isn't that common anymore.
6:23 Battle
Disappointed Battle didn't end up in the compilation. One of my personal fave tracks.
This is truly impressive how accurate my memories of the songs are. This is when you know that this game means something.
I think the brain had a way of storing music more precisely than the rest also.
All the best games (and movies) have killer soundtracks. It's a hugely important part of the immersion and experience.
I absolutely love the OPENING 0:00 of this soundtrack...Truly sounds like primitive man has "woken up" and now found himself in the uncertain struggle of early civilization
22:00 Best track
+Zebulon Zeytan Agree the best track.
Warcraft 2 OST is as good as this too
true true, it's the very best AOE song at all, followed by Cave and Rain :) then comes some of the AOE 2 :D
God dam this sound so much like a FF10 song!
FF knowitall reporting - No, this would definitely be FF8 material. Look up "The stage is set" and note the similarities ;)
That soundtrack set the tone for the entire series
2:14
ALWAYS gets me goosebumps
ruassmarkt Where is it exactly used? I don't remember ever hearing this
whenever you start a map
Oh, okay. Because I remember hearing the next one as the start music. I had the gold edition anyway so it kinda mixed the two soundtracks
oh yeah that track always got me pumped with optimism... such good memories
+ruassmarkt I loved that while exploring the map in the beginning!! This game is almost litteraly the reason why I started being interested in history. To think I went studying history many years later.
I'll never forget the thousands of times I started a new game to 2:14. Such an incredible opening track. First ever game I bought as a kid (with dads help taking it to the counter to pay!)
Same here, this track is magic. Simply brought me back to the ancient times... It was so immersing... And no, I'm not crying, just an oplite in my eye
Perfect. I love how anachronistic, ambient and minimalist it is, gives an unique vibe to this historical strategy. Definitive Edition's orchestral arrangements, while impressive in their own right, can't hold a candle to this.
Indeed, the simplicity from the stone age drum and pipe to the musical cords in the Post-Iron Age hinted subtly to the advancement of the culture, it's a major reason to why I don't enjoy the DE-version.
2:15 always had a special feeling for me. It somehow conjured a feeling of how it was like when mankind was still young, became self aware and started its epic journey, while still facing so many unknowns.
Wow. Just stumbled across this soundtrack. Haven't listened to these tracks in many years, but they are still crisp and vivid in my mind from lots of playtime in the past. I think "Cave" is my favorite at 2:15.
13:54 Rain is good too
Niice. "Death" is mine. 5:26
Cave is my fav!!!
I feel like I'm 6 years old again. I really want a HD version of this game on Steam, 2 is great but it'll never replace the first one for me.
I wish someone made a mod. Anyway, there's are two ,,new" rts, called 0 A.D. and Hegemony: Clash of the Ancients, roughly playing at the same period and they have similar gameplay. Go check them out.
+Alice I completely agree. I find 2 awesome, but I always liked more the 1st one.
+Alice They already made AOM HD , let`s wait por AOE 1 :D
There is a remaster coming with 4k textures!
they're working on it except it's exclusive to the windows app store... what kind of bullshit is that?
From the (caves) that humans lived in to the (gray skies) of the remains of fallen civilizations and the rise of new ones. This soundtrack marks the rise of civilization. I love it so much.
played this since i was 4, its hard to articulate the mysticism of those long hours spent in the dark computer room on the 98... amassing my little civ, will always cherish this game... :)
I remember playing this game when I was 5. It's what started my love of military tech. The mission builder was so much fun when I was 7, and lead to me eventually modding games and from there get a software job because of my coding knowledge. Now I'm working on a videogame in my spare time. I owe a lot to this game.
I was like 5 when I started to play this game in '98.
Now I'm 23 and I'm about to start an online match with my friends.
#EVERGREEN
Now your 28 💯
this sound rembemer me for the time i was a little child with 6 or 7
years and i played this game. it was my first really good game and i
loved it so mutch! i played it every day for 30 minutes after homework
form basic school :D
after it i went out and play in the nature :D
good old times. good old game! :D
Did you succeed playing only 30 min ? When I was 6 I could play 2h without feeling the time spending !
i cried and got chill hearing this OST again .... ohh the memory ...
I feel kind of sad for children nowadays cause they may have extremely nice graphics and fast action open world games but they will never learn the feeling of playing games like Age of Empires and Red Alert... Feel so good as a kid had those games on my dad's pc and I thank him for that cause I did not have to win or even knew what to do I kinda played it cause it was (is) so awesome game...
Well, now AoE will also have "extremely nice graphics" ;-)
i still playing this golden game with the aoeHD patch on windows 10 .
They have HD graphics. But more megapixel in a camera doesnt make you a good photographer. Many modern games look bad
and don't forget about indie and casual games, not all people play only in AAA
That is our responsibility, to preserve it. I think i have the original but i tried the DE and its so much fun
I got this game in a cereal box 15 years ago, and I still have it.
+Quarker i played it once at my friends house and loved it, so he burned another disc for me. My mum ended up smashing it because i spent so much time on it!
+Marshall Sambell you can buy copies off of ebay :)
me too, i got it out of a nutri grain cereal box
+Time Lapse Videos still got my nutri grain copy
CoolToMmO1995 so do I, however the cover on the cd is peeling off
I remember I had a demo of this that I played over and over, and one project I had as a kid was to cut every tree on the map.
OG soundtrack so much better than definitive version
The memories! Hey, who has memories? I surely do, about this game anyway. My father and (now late) grandfather were off to buy me an educational game. They tried to get one called "Socrates", but could not find it. However, they saw this game in the store, and both being history freaks (as well as I am today), agreed this was a perfect choice just by looking at the cover. I mean, holy shit, they were right! This was THE BEST GAME EVER at the time! I want to thank both my father and grandfather right here, right now, as I am listening to this awesome soundtrack, and just say that you are (or in my grandfather's case, were) plain awesome.
Rogan?
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Jake Dupre joe rogan
Bari Bak Chon
Oglamie
It's crazy how heavily this game has influenced so many people. I got it as a gift when it came out, I was 12. Still here listening to this music at age 31.
2:14 can still stir in me that same sense of wonder it always did... just glorious.
loved the song at 8:35 it was the best while playing! sadly the Definitve edition doesn't have it any more..
this game came in a cereal box for me as a special, it was on of my first PC games, I used to play it with my sister, we didnt really know what we were doing but gosh the memories! I was about 7
The best cereal box in the history.
Ιάκωβος Καραμάνης lolol
freaking summoning a black Camaro and walker to blast enemy infantry and buildings was my childhood
"Cave" is the music I most associate with this game. I hope they kept that for the Definitive Edition. I'm about to find out thank to Game Pass...
This game was and still is awesome, I shows how great civilizations build them selves up just to either be wiped out by war, destroyed by it self by depleting all the worlds natural resources.
hothmandon The circle of life. I think there was nothing better to learn history than AoE. I only knew about the Syracus story or the Carthago one cause of this game.
Not if you have cheat codes ;)
noob... Kidding, lol.
Pepperoni Pizza
Coinage
Woodstock
Quarry
4 horsemen of my whole childhood
Bigdaddy, and Photonman
And klapaucius. Nono, wait
e=mc2 trooper
For some reason Death was always the first song in my original copy of the game. All it wanted to make me do was get out of the Stone age ASAP. Hunt would often play when I was in the Bronze age when I was caught off guard being harrassed by the enemy. Wally has to be my favorite and I think I subconsciously went all in when it would start playing. Sometimes the odds weren't in your favor but it was always glorious.
AOE1 will always be my favorite RTS. This music sends me straight back to when I was 10
Cave is just the perfect song for the first human walking on earth
I'm running the old soundtrack in the background of the new version. I've been using the HD patch for years but I have to say, maybe due to low expectations with these "remasters," it's been a worthwhile experience just playing through the Egyptian campaign so far!
Much better than the AoE 2 soundtrack in my opinion.
+East_Clintwood Or the even worse Rise of Rome/Ubisoft republish of AoE1 that I got.
Eu4 fan?
Some of the RoR soundtracks (the CD ones, not the MIDI) sounds good. I still prefer the original AoE CD soundtrack though
I remember I was so scared about loosing villagers in an elephant's hunt that i sent a centurion to kill it ... and I lost all the meat from it. Bug, acid spear or sadism from developpers .... time has never told....
I still lose villagers on the elephant, though I try to do hit and run, and make the elephant have to run around the TC
intentional! the centurion rips up the elephant to kill it, rendering the meat useless, whereas the hunters know how to preserve the meat
5:30! Exactly what ive been looking for
That's one of the most memorable ones from the game for me.
I hear the music and I'm transported to my childhood. This is awesome!!!
I played this on a Pentium MMX 233 Mhz, 8GB of HDD and 128 MB of RAM. Good times they were.
2:15 Hey! I've found my childhood back!
oh what a nostalgic rush!
@@stage3detailing398 nostalgic rush you said it bro..
This brings back memories of eating pepperoni pizza in a quarry.
Taking the game CD out, putting it in a CD player, and skipping track 1.
Yes
Nostalgia, omg. This is incredible. I can die happy now!
Edomus Me, too, man, me, too...😭
J'avais 4 ans quand ce jeu m'a envouté. Que de souvenirs ! :')
J'avais 6 ans moi
Ce jeu était vraiment fascinant :)
Pareil pas bien vieux.. mon cousin plus agé l'avait, à chaque fois qu'on allait chez lui on y passait l'aprem (lui n'étant déjà plus chez ses parents) mon dieu les souvenirs!
J’avais 4 ans quand j’ai joué aoe 2 et aoe 1.
Literally my whole childhood summed up ! This and Gothic 3 ! So many memories! I started playing this at the age of 9 and now when Im 30 I still love playing this anytime I have time ! Age of empires + weed ofocurse ... peace ✌️
11:01 - Omg, so good!
Yeah that's a great track! Fantastic score and one of the best in gaming history.
Haven't played the game in more than a decade I believe, and this was the song that gave me the flashbacks. In my mind, THE AoE track.
I liked most of them, though “gamelan” was one that stick around too
Amazing soundtrack..
*installs AOE*
Nobody's talking about 22:55. It gives me the chills. What a wonderful OST.
I do. Its the piece of music that I was always waiting for when hitting the enemy with the final blow.
Tremendous. I spent at least 2k hours playing this magnificent game. The music is still powerful.
Oh man. Age of Empires I was probably the first game I bought with my own money. Good memories.
Same! :D I remember hearing about a place which had it a little cheaper and traveled there to get it, not sure how old I was, maybe I was about 15 or 16 at the time. Awesome game though, loved it! :D Things just aren't the same anymore!
1:19 I heard a lot of that in the first mission of the Greek campaign. Oh God, the wailing and gnashing of teeth I had as a 15 year old and this game.
But now I am pretty damn good at 4X and RTS games - because of the painful lessons the Dorians burnt into my soul.
Ah...the very first strategy-game I ever played.
I remember a game where I was down to ten workers and a crap-ton of wall, and the enemy seemed to know I'd lost already so it just sent a single elephant at me.
Took me another hour to actually lose, but damn it all, I still enjoy this game.
My childhood. The age of innocence and magic.
shhhhh haaaa
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The most vivid memory of this game was the powerfull but slow hoplite. Guys with big shields and a huge spear really strong
I had 2 army compositions (playing only the demo, over and over). One was a mass of hoplites, and the other was a mass of chariots just to be able to outrange the towers. Siege is overrated.
Like a true hoplite they could tumble a tower on their own.
I will always remember the day that at my grandmas place on second day of christmas the family would reunite what makes it even more golden I always went on her pc to play this game and sometimes my relatives were aswell this Is a game of legends i was probably around 8 just playing this
I think its too bad they never made a Age of Empires 1 "HD" version of it. Just being able to play it online would be fun.
+Yan Long
Yeppp!!
ESO listen 2 us!
+Yan Long i just wanted some more expansions for age of empires 3 :( im really sad they didn't delevoped more the game... the last one of the franchise and they don't even care
+Rgd I would like to see Age of Empires 4 someday. They could make it in ancient ages again (just like first game) with soundtrack that contains original Age of Empires 1 music :)
+Yan Long download gameranger
+BlueWolvesgaming Are you serious? Where did you find it?
When I was a kid, a friend of my sisters lent me this and I lent him Heroes of might and magic II. We both later agreed that both games were awesome and I got Age of Empires for Christmas that year. Ah. The times. They were good.
it was one of my first games when i was a kid and the game was so magical..this is so nostalgic...
Probably one of the first RTS that I played for hours on end. Only Starcraft has been able to surpass this game for me.
Oh how I wish I could go back to the 90s...
2 years but remember when we would get game demos for Playstation with our pizza hut orders?
@@nocturnalgamer8285 I don't remember that.
I was just a kid and really bad at this game, but I could play the "Holy Man" map for hours. To this day one of the best designed game stages I've ever seen.
this game was released a year before i was born and yet i spent a large chunk of my childhood playing this already outdated game. that is the magic of this game
24:47 AoE 2's theme comes in for the first time. My cousin told me that the lyrics to the song were "It's time... for the Won-deeer...".
And here I was thinking that I imagined all of this up after I played AoE 2.
Best part: 22:00 - 24:48
I always used to attack with that one!
This is the best aoe soundtrack. The polyrhythms in the opening track is amazing and it just continues throughout.
22:00 that song is soooooooooooo epic
AlisÍnger jeah i Miss it
I was attacking with everything i got with this soundtrack. Damn i miss that feeling..
13:55 memories..
yes :(
when the game opens with cave, it just hits me with much joy
sadly the DE and golden editions of the game no longer do that :(
13:54 my favourite. always loved that one
Reminds me of the harbours I build and fishing boats ⛵
It's been 18 years since I heard this music, good times.
I spent hours and hours playing this game. This soundtrack was in my dreams
8:35, this is beautiful!
You discover a coastline and a whale breaches
2:14 - gameplay soundtrack 1
Thank youuuu
Thank you so much for these tracks. I really appreciate this. THIS is childhood and youth for me. I had friends and family, a good time with them, but the feeling gaming Age of Empires was always something very special. THIS was my favourite game and will remain until death. So many hours spent building Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian or Choson civilisations! Wololo, friends! ❤️
Oh my god I haven't heard some of these since 1998! I still play AOE occasionally every year, but ever since I had the expansion back in 2000, every time I entered the game I always clicked on the Rise of Rome icon by default. I have completely forgotten that there are so many original AOE music sequences that are NOT in ROR. I just assumed ROR has kept all the original ones and only added the new ones in-between.
I listened to the AoE:DE soundtrack and it was god awfully depressingly garbage
I needed to hear the real aoe soundtrack to cleanse my soul of that Win10 non-steam game soundtrack
I never realized "Gray Sky" had used that AOE2 melody first.
Слушая эту музыку, я погрузился в нирвану, мысленно перед взором у меня пронесся 1999 год, когда я был мелкий, прогуливал школу и играл в АОЕ1. :) Ностальгия, которую не передать словами.
That build-up of the song starting at 11:02 all the way up to its climax is just the loveliest part of playing this game, period
Yess😭😭
27:00 just brings chills down my spine, my childhood!
Im happy i lived when aoe was around. Best childhood ever. Every summer before and after beach id grind this shi for hours... Matserpiece of gameplay, aesthetics, vibe, music...
memories and feeling from my childhood... Thank you Microsoft and Ensemble Studios!! You made so many beautiful moments to my life with Age of Empires!!! Love, Peace!
AoE was my first PC game ever. And one of my favourites of all time. And listening today to this soundtrack, I was shocked when realizing that my children are almost the same age I was when I started playing this masterpiece of a game. :O
24:48 la legendaria música que identifica al AoE, hoy después de jugar años al 1, la escucho por 1ra vez en su versión original. Estoy que exploto de amorr!!! 😍❤
This brings back so many good memories. Wololo was my friend back then. Also I never knew that Gray Sky was the original song for the improved AoE 3 song, that blew my mind. I was like 7 or 8 when I got this game, imagine if a group of people just make an idea of the remake for this game and play online again, but keep the old tracks.