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During the devolpment of all of the Age of Empires games, there was things planned to be added, very few survived, parts, and sometimes may be kept in the game.

Technology

 * Leather Armor was avaliable in the Stone Age.
 * Metal Working was avaliable in the Tool Age
 * There was a Technology in the Bronze Age called "Trade Workshops"
 * There was a technology called "Mining"
 * Metallurgy was avaliable in the Bronze Age.
 * The Bowman was planned to get upgraded into Composite Bowman
 * There was a technology called "Longbow" which became "Composite Bow"
 * Scouts could get upgraded into Cavalry.
 * Afterlife was known as "Baptism"
 * There was a Technology called "Scouting" which improved unit LOS by 1.
 * There was a Technology called Advanced Metallurgy.
 * There was a Technology called "Targets"
 * There was a Technology called "Mathematics"
 * The Player had to manually research technologies to train the:
 * War Elephant
 * Light Transport
 * Elephant Archer
 * Ballista
 * Chariot Archer
 * Chariot
 * Horse Archer
 * Writing used to be called Cartography
 * There was a Technology that improved Villager fishing.
 * There was a Technology called "Pottery"

Units

 * Ruins2
 * Volcano
 * Goat
 * Stone Fence
 * Wood Fence
 * Discovery2
 * Horse
 * Trade Workshop
 * Cow
 * Spaceship (Cut Cheat Unit)
 * Pile of Stone
 * Pile of Wood
 * Hero 12
 * Explorer
 * Traitor

Other

 * There was another 2 ages called The Prehistoric Age and the Republic Age.
 * There was a 6 resource called "Trade Goods" which could be "made" at the Trade Workshop.
 * Land Trading was avaliable.
 * There was another tree that was cut, it can be seen in the Demo.
 * A Beta Tree from the 1995 devolpment was left over.
 * Roads had to be built to allow further construction.
 * Leaves and the stump would be left over if the player (or AI) used attack ground with a Catapult against trees.
 * Berry Bushes were called "Forage Sites"
 * A lot of Beta Buildings were smaller, and more historically accurate.
 * Axemen were Topless (They Looked like a villager without the axe)
 * The Catapult Trireme was an upgrade to the Trireme.
 * The Ballista was built at the Archery Range.