Alpiner (TI-99/4A) gameplay footage

Seems to be TI’s answer to Crazy Climber, with simpler controls. Avoid obstacles while climbing mountains. Pretty fun. The game uses the Speech Synthesizer, and uses it A LOT, from instructions to grunts to taunting you if you fall. What is the music in this game? A classical piece? Something from another video game? Both? It sounds so familiar. ... Okay, I figured it out. It’s Anitra’s Dance from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1. It was in the Atari 2600 game “Mountain King“,
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