Snipes (diminutive for Snipers) is a text-mode networked computer game that was created in 1983 by SuperSet Software. Snipes is officially credited as being the original inspiration for NetWars. Seeing Snipes being played simultaneously on Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET persuaded Novell owner Safeguard Scientifics that SuperSoft's networking technology was valuable. Novell used the technology to develop NetWare.

As the first networking-aware software when users only used NetWare to share files and printers, sales demonstrations typically ended with Snipes. SuperSet retained ownership of the game although shipping with NetWare; Drew Major reported that many customers told him of employees' Snipes deathmatches after work hours. Novell also used it as a stress test to certify network cards and drivers as NetWare-compatible. A newer implementation of the game was developed and shipped with NetWare Lite 1.1 in September 1991.

  • A video of SNIPE gameplay
  • A video of NLSNIPES gameplay
  • A video of NCSNIPES gameplay