Sculptured's NHL Stanley Cup featured a similar effect.

Players also have the ability to save the game as well as change options and difficulty settings.

The North American version of the game contains college teams from five major NCAA Division I-A conferences (ACC, Big East, Big 8, SEC, and SWC) but with fictional players, while the European game features fictional professional teams located throughout the world, and the Japanese release has its own fictionalized likenesses of NBA teams.

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "While most video basketball games play like most other video basketball games, this Nintendo effort sets itself apart with a unique, rotating 3-D perspective.

"[9] Nintendo Power ranked NCAA Basketball the ninth best SNES game of 1992.