Ballblazer is a futuristic sports game played one-player against the computer at nine different difficulty levels, or two-players competing. The object of the game is to get the ball into your opponent's goal at the opposite end of the playing field while piloting a Rotofoil hovercraft gliding across the playing field. The split screen shows a first-person view from each Rotofoil, the time remaining, and the number of goals scored by each player. A force field surrounds each Rotofoil to allow the player to grab or shoot the ball. Once a player gets close enough to the ball, it sticks to the force field and moves with their Rotofoil. The player then tries to move the ball down to the opposing goal or tries to shoot the ball into the goal, complicated by the fact that the goal posts move back and forth across the ends of the field or shrink to make for a smaller target as the match progresses. While you have the ball, your opponent can rush your Rotofoil and attempt to knock the ball away.