The song debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 22 on 27 September 1992 and ascended to its peak of number six three weeks later it spent a total of eight weeks in the top 50 and was the 75th-best-selling hit of 1992 in the UK. Release and success ĭoctor Spin released "Tetris" through Polydor Records and Lloyd Webber's sublabel of Polydor, Carpet Records, on 21 September 1992 in four formats: CD, cassette, 7-inch vinyl, and 12-inch vinyl. The track was officially licensed by Nintendo. In 1992, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Nigel Wright collaborated under the name Doctor Spin to record and release a Eurodance version of Tanka's arrangement. The song used in the Game Boy version of Tetris was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka. The original composition that the main theme of Tetris is based on is the Russian folk song " Korobeiniki", which is a musical recreation of a poem by Russian poet Nikolay Nekrasov. This song, along with " Supermarioland" by Ambassadors of Funk, commenced a brief trend of recreated video game music entering mainstream popularity. Doctor Spin released their version of "Tetris" on 21 September 1992 through Polydor and Carpet Records it reached number six on the UK Singles Chart and also charted in Austria, Finland, and Ireland. The composition is based on the theme to the 1989 Game Boy game Tetris, which itself is based on the Russian folk song " Korobeiniki". " Tetris" is a song arranged by English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and English record producer Nigel Wright, collaborating under the pseudonym Doctor Spin. Skratch ( Surrey, England) ("Play Game Boy")
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