Snipes

Snipes is a video game in the action genre developed by SuperSet Software Corp. and published by SuperSet Software Corp. originally released in 1982. It is currently playable on DOS.

Back to the old days. Where (small) size was more important than graphics. The glory days of ASCII games. Addiction was the trump card. How do you get addiction fast? By keeping the gameplay simple, remember Tetris? Sokoban? Boulderdash? Pac-man? Snipes is of the same caliber.

Imagine a big maze. You are alone, all alone. All you know is that you must conquer the maze by killing all your enemies, the Snipes. And not only the Snipes, but also their hives. Strategy, quick thinking and sharp reflexes are the key to victory. The only key.

The gameplay is, as mentioned above, fairly simple. You control your creature with the arrow keys and shoot with A, W, D and S in the right directions. And when you panic, press the space bar to get some extra speed. How much easier can it get? But it's not just simplicity that's an important aspect of a game. Replayability is another important aspect.

In Snipes this is achieved by letting the computer generate a new maze each time. You specify the number of Snipes, the hives and the difficulty before starting and leaving. As you can configure everything, there are a total of 26x9 difficulty levels. From A1 (easy, nothing special, 3 hives, maximum 10 Snipes and five lives) to Z9 (hard, reflective bullets, electric walls, ghosts, 10 hives, maximum 150 Snipes and two lives). What more do you want?

In addition to being an excellent game, Snipes should also be recognized for its place in history as one of the first networked games ever written. In fact, the designers of Superset Software later became Novell, one of the largest and most successful network software companies.

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