NFL '95 was Sega Sports answer to EA Sports Madden line of football games. It has many of the same features as well as all 28 professional teams along with 1,500 of the top NFL players of the 1993 season to play as.

The game contains a standard Exhibition mode as well as a Season mode where players can manipulate trades, sign free agents and store records for up to seven different users thanks to the games battery backup system, which was also used to track league leaders in thirteen different categories.