I played Demolition Ball on Saturday.

This was my first experience with Demolition Ball, and it's likely you haven't heard of it either. The details:

Red vs. Yellow, five on five. You have a handheld scoop that you use to pick up, pass, and shoot a wiffle ball at your goal, which is a vertically mounted board at your end of the court. The goal has a circle cut in the middle with a net. Two points if you shoot the ball into the circle, one if you hit the goal at all.

Games are 14 minutes long, and there's a referee who's keeping score, assessing penalties, playing ridiculous sound effects, and providing color commentary. There's an electronic scoreboard like you'd find in a high school gymnasium.

Here's the best part...

You do all this while driving a bumper car. One of those extremely frustrating, yet extremely agile cars with the crank steering mechanism. No brakes, not much acceleration. But once you get the hang of it, once you become one with the machine, it's like you're flying. Until you hit something.

Just writing this makes me want to go back and do it again.

I've got a fever, and its name is Demolition Ball.