http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14935
--- Comment #2 from Ryan Reich ryan.reich@gmail.com 2008-08-21 12:36:35 --- I patched wine and recompiled. I ran the patched version from the source tree without installing; I'm never sure how this works, but I guess it was fine since the log changed rather notably. It still exits in the same way, but your patch has cut a lot of the crap and it seems to me even more than before that the ShowCursor call is the problem. I'm attaching the log for the patched run.
To answer your question: the game is more than ten years old (1997, I think). It's known to have been a bit delicate, and wouldn't run properly on Windows XP without a patch, but I'm emulating Windows 95 (same behavior with 98; which one does the Wine team recommend, by the way?).