June 6 is the 32nd anniversary of the first release of the computer game “Tetris,” created by Alexey Pajitnov at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. That original version lacked sound; today, though, the ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Listening to Tetris Effect’s many varied songs has brought back an unexpected memory: the lyrics that I invented as a child for “Korobeiniki,” the ...

Imagine yourself playing Tetris, and you’ll undoubtedly have the Game Boy version’s memorable theme song (called Korobeiniki) stuck in your head for hours. But playing the game on an old school analog ...

Everywhere you look you see blocks. Everywhere you go you hear “Korobeiniki”. Every step you take, you know that the ground beneath you could cruelly disappear, though at least you’d have some bonus ...