The article fails to mention this Windows 3-era clone of it.

https://archive.org/details/win3_COLUMNS

12-ish-year-old me spent countless hours playing this version. It has a bug where a certain pattern in two bottommost rows will be incorrectly detected as a vertical match of three and the game will crash. I learned to play in a way which avoided this glitch. Thank you for the nostalgia trip.