Type A (Korobeiniki) from Tetris 1984 on the Game Boy Transcribed

Blocks. Blocks. More blocks. But only in 4's on an edge. They are the name of the game. Tetris took the world by storm when a mishap in licensing led Nintendo's dev team to make a version of Tetris for the Game Boy. Alexey Pajitnov is probably very glad today that the game released packaged with every Game Boy, even when he and the Russian state college could not internally approve the license. Hirokazu Tanaka used reference material from Russian folklore to craft arrangements and original songs based off of the Slavic styles. “Type A“ has the iconic melody that everyone now knows as “TETRIS.“ This melody was reused from Korobeiniki, a Russian folk song. Support the game and artist: ORIGINAL GAME UNAVAILABLE Tetris (GB version) was delisted from the Nintendo 3DS shop in 2014: more info- Tetris and the Tetris Company can be supported directly on Song - “