Rating: 5/5
Net Wars (1992, Novell) is a simple ray-trace space shooter. I think it was designed to showcase one of the fun things that could be done with an IPX network, which was all the rage in those days. Fly around and navigate in black, 3-dimensional space, avoiding and shooting bad guys, and picking up power-ups, weapons, and shields. All objects including your ship, the enemy ships, and power-ups, etc are simple simgle-color psudo-3D shapes. Interesting navigation instrument; ship is radar equipped to find thre bad guys before they find you. Good multiplayer action an IPX network... can't remember if it will work over ethernet - probably.
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