More than 20 years ago, Mason Gordon had a thought: What if there was some way to combine the fast pace of basketball and the physicality of football?
Drawing inspiration from “NBA Jam” and “NFL Blitz” — over-the-top video games with physics-defying moves — Gordon created Slamball, and it wasn’t long before it became viral way before Tik Tok was a thing.
Read the full article at USA Today here.