It turns out that Tanaka’s Tetris theme is based on an old Russian folk song from the late 1800s.
I never thought music about the music from Tetris other than noticing how well the melody stuck in my head.
The game has been shown to increase brain activity, boost general cognitive functions such as “critical thinking, reasoning, language and processing” and even increase cerebral cortex thickness. The simple rules and ever increasing difficulty made the game addicting, so much so that the game was banned by the Moscow Medical Institute because it was distracting employees from their work. Tetrisīuilt in 1984 by Russian Programer Alexey Pajitnov, Tetris is one of the most well known video games ever. The theme music for Tetris is not one of Tanaka’s most complex works, but it has a cool backstory that explains why the music is so good. These steps helped pave the way toward more involved musical scores to complement the increasing complexity of the games.
He introduced the idea of adding and removing layers of the music with Donkey Kong 3, the first game where he acted as both composer and sound designer. Known for his work in sound design and sound engineering for Nintendo, Hirokazu Tanaka helped modernize video game sounds past the repetitive sound effects of the early 80s into a world of variety in the late 80s and beyond. This sequence is based on the theme from Nintendo’s Tetris, written by Hirokazu Tanaka.
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