Gameboy Tetris Music Change & Things Heard at SGDQ 2026

The Cutting Room Floor’s article on Gameboy Tetris has an interesting fact. The first 25,000 copies sold in Japan, distributed as part of a bundle, had different music! Instead of the now-iconic Russian tune Korobeiniki, a different, somewhat calmer song was used. You can either follow that link and find it on the page, or go here. Here’s an extra, one last piece of SDGQ 2026 content…. Every year (well, twice a year) the Mastodon account of Alex Zandra posts a thread of fun out-of-context things heard during Games Done Quick. Here is the thread for the recently-concluded program. A few call-outs, but mind I’ve left out a lot of good ones on purpose: I was told to keep this short because I’m a yapper who here had a childhood? the hexahedron, more commonly known as the cube sometimes you wanna change your hair color to match the elf that lives inside your head Good to know I think a helicopter could be an egg before fighting shaft and dracula I’m gonna equip buffalo stars in both hands…