Snipes (diminutive for Snipers) is a text-mode networked computer game that was created in 1983 by SuperSet Software.

First, a letter is chosen, which controls the environment settings: what bad guys are available, their accuracy at attacking, whether or not the player's diagonal shots bounce off walls, whether running into a wall will simply block or kill the player, and whether the hives have a partial resistance to snipes' shots.

A requirement to play the multiplayer version of Snipes is that all users share a common network drive.

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.

The port was done by reverse engineering the original code and permission was granted by Drew Major and Kyle Powell[5] to make it public.