To me the spirit seems to be that it should run on your average Windows machine without any external dependencies and without a web browser.

Your average PC has half a dozen .net runtimes installed but likely not the correct .net version you want (yay), so to me it seems like it would be out. Same for the various C++ redistributables, better not rely on that unless you ship the DLLs you need with it (which I don't think you're allowed to do per Microsoft).

https://2pgarcade.com/contest-144mb.html isn't much more elaborate than the article unfortunately.