One day, they find a flyer for a nationwide beach volleyball tournament offering the winning team a $2,500,000 cash prize.

The Japanese release (U.S. Championship Beach Volley: V'Ball) features an opening cut-scene explaining the plot.

Between matches, intermission sequences depict the main characters visiting a car dealership to purchase a vehicle.

In the NES version, there are three different tournament modes: Exercise, the American Circuit and the World Cup.

The American Circuit simply consists of the first five teams featured in the Famicom version's tournament mode set to an average difficulty.

The World Cup mode consists of seven teams in the following order: Japan, Italy, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, the Navy and USSR, all set to a hard difficulty.

Four additional female teams are present in the game but are inaccessible to the player under normal playing conditions.

In Japan, Game Machine listed U.S. Championship V'Ball on their September 15, 1988 issue as being the sixth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.