What is a "real-time strategy game"?

What is a "real-time strategy game"?

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Today we have what we call real-time strategy games which are where things are happening in real-time. You're building fortresses and bases and things like that and it's all happening in real time. So, if you sit there, like in chess, pondering your move for a half an hour, by the time you figure out what it is you want do, that base is gone and they've set up a base there instead. So, real-time strategy is kind of the next evolution from standard traditional strategy games.