I mean, its your game, so do as you please, but couldn't the curser be something you can enable or disable in the options where you set resolution and whatnot?
(I know its not your game, your description says the games company went bankrupt in 1994, with this being a re-upload, but you get the idea.)
edit: or, when you said "this is an edge case", did you mean the issue seems unique to me? or something only I'd really have?