In Gameboy's Tetris, the theme song is called "A-Type" and was arranged by Japanese composer Hirokazu Tanaka. Find the story behind the song.

And yet, the Tetris movie soundtrack still makes liberal use of the Tetris theme song. The score, done by British composer Lorne Balfe, consists of slow, tense variations on the familiar theme.

For a certain generation of gamers, the beeps and boops of Tetris and Super Mario Land are just as iconic as the games themselves. But how did video games of the 1970s and '80s create such ...