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The Gamer Blog: Talking DiRT2 with Ken Block

By Jon Robinson

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

When rally icon Ken Block went to Japan in the early 90s, he once spent $200 at an arcade playing a racing simulator. The title? Sega Rally, the classic racer that would help hype up the sport to a future driver who would eventually take rally cars to places they've never gone before. "Even before I was a rally driver, that was just the type of racing I would like to do in video games," says Block. "Going around a regular track just wasn't as interesting to me as sliding around and jumping a ...

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