Is it possible to create a player in NBA on NBC Showtime arcade game?

[stpcore]

I finally got a Sportstation (Blitz/Showtime) up and running after a few months and myself, family, and friends are really enjoying it! I notice that when starting a game it shows three options (create player, enter initials, select team). The funny thing is my "CREATE PLAYER" menu option has a red circle with slash going through it and underneath it it says that it's available in "one player game only". Does anyone else have this happening on their Blitz/Showtime?

Am I missing something here? How do I access that menu so that I can create a player? Do I have to fulfill requirements (total wins, beat all teams, enter a code, etc.) in order to select this option? Any help would be appreciated!

[stpcore]

UPDATE

I found out that to access the CREATE PLAYER menu you can only put one credit in at a time (versus registering multiple credits with the start button).  Pressed start only one time (registering one credit) and the CREATE PLAYER menu was there.  Keeping this post up in the event someone can use it as reference in the future.