It very much has that mid 90s attitude and unique to DOS too. From what I remember, consoles didn’t really have these sort of games.
Having just watched a video explaining how EA strongarmed SEGA during the Genesis/Mega Drive era, the main reason games that "feel" like this one almost never graced the early consoles was mostly due to awful deals that Sega and Nintendo forced publishers to accept - "we'll produce however many carts we want to, whenever we want to".
Making a PC game at the time, on the other hand, meant a lot more creative freedom, lower development costs and higher profit per sale, though with a way, way smaller market.
Back in kazaa/limewire times, search for any music would always return a bunch of .exe files, like
Metallica - Fade to Black.exe. A lot of people learned the difference between file extensions the hard way