This game offers a chance to compete in one-on-one basketball with NBA superstars like Michael Jordan (Chicago Bulls), David Robinson (San Antonio Spurs), Larry Bird (Boston Celtics), and Patrick Ewing (New York Knicks).

Vital statistics related to gameplay are also included here like height, weight, the number of points that the player scores in a typical game, and accuracy in percentage for various shots.

The Dutch video game magazine Power Unlimited gave NBA All-Star Challenge an 80% rating in its January 1994 issue while the website Sega-16 gave the Sega Genesis version of the game a 20% rating in April 2009.

[2] A sequel, NBA All-Star Challenge 2, was released in December 1993 exclusively for the Game Boy.

Developed by Beam Software and published by Acclaim Entertainment under the LJN label, the gameplay is largely the same, the main change being the graphical enhancements from the original Game Boy game.