I forgot about this but as soon as you said red-faced it came back to me. This “adult” became a tomato because he could choose to be referred to as he/him in a video game. I only ever saw toddlers and small children scream the way he did. So pathetic!
I had this game originally on some CD with a bunch of Apogee games. This was before I had developed the concept of money, so I didn’t know how to get more levels that were teased at the end of the shareware, but it was nevertheless my favorite game at the time.