On to Day 11. Gosh, we're zipping through these now! Unfortunately, I may have to miss tomorrow's post due to ongoing internet issues, but we'll see.

For those of you just joining us, this is Day 11 of a 30 Day Video Game Music Challenge; if you missed the first ten days, they're all grouped together in the same category, at the top of the article. Each day consists of a different category of music, and I respond with a song that I feel fits it well, in terms of being one of my favorites of that category. Hard mode: I can't repeat games. Challenge mode: I can't repeat franchises either. (Repeat characters appearing in other franchises are fine.) In each entry, I've also been providing an honorable mention, a song that fits the bill quite well; in order to avoid removing other franchises from the running, I've been keeping these honorable mentions within the same franchise as the original item. Got it? Good!

Day 11's challenge is "Puzzle game music", and for that it's hard to go against the staple of Tetris. In this case, I went with the "B-Type" music included in the Game Boy version of the game. It was a toss-up between this and "C-Type", both here and any time I play the game, but "B-Type" won out this time. Its fast-paced tempo and minor key heighten the experience of one of the best puzzle games ever conceived, certainly a classic.

For an honorable mention, while I could easily go with "C-Type" as discussed above, I wanted to go with something a little different. The main theme of Tetris 99 is a remix of Game Boy Tetris' "A-Type", itself a rendition of the classic Russian folk-song Коробе́йники; this shows just how endearing the game has become, how thoroughly that particular rendition of this classic title has permeated the public consciousness.