The gameplay is largely the same as the Midway's Jam games with some additions.

One of the most prominent additions is the "Create Player" feature which allows players to create a custom basketball player specifying height weight power shooting and defensive skills using a limited number of attribute points. Created players can be made more powerful as players earn additional attribute points by winning games

Each team now has five members of the roster to choose from.

The player can select from any of the 29 NBA teams and match them in four quarters of N.B.A basketball (three minutes each) with three-minute overtimes if necessary. Just as in the Jam games the game can keep track of the teams a player has beaten using a player's created ID and PIN. Optionally the player can load their created player.