When one of the player manages to play the hockey puck past the opponents bat, the player scores. The bat on the playing field bounces a hockey puck between the player and the opponent.
The game is controlled via the computers mouse. There are several game modes, where a single player can attain a tournament, competing against all the opponents who also visit the Cafe or player can also practise with each opponent, to find out his/her/its weakness in a single player match. It was published by Ubi Soft (and later Brøderbund) in 1989, for the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh, Amstrad CPC and DOS operating systems.
Shufflepuck Cafe is a computer game simulation of air hockey developed by Domark.