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  1. This is an old post, but I ran into it while searching today. You can see some videos of BHH on youtube like this one: Are you "purple" by chance? I was one of the said developers, that is I worked for the infamous Ed Ringler at the time. Were you there with your "boss" Jack Tramiel (or was it Sam that used to visit?, I forget which now). That sounds like Ed alright. He was pretty notorious for such incidents. I can't recall how many stories I've heard when I went on later interviews, like when I escaped to Interplay (and joined the "Fallout" team), I was told how Ed was trying to extort money for a project for which he was already paid. Oh, and how many things I witnessed and experienced while there. Ed in his drawling Boston accent that sounded a bit like a drunken Kennedy family member on crack. It certainly gave us something to talk (and lol) about during lunch. The gang started to catalog all the odd sayings Ed would repeat that we called "Ed'isms". Yea Atari (the Tramiel Bros version) paid for Ed's shiny new BMW (that I admit I reluctantly rode on occasion). I put the pieces together later on..Ed made a deal with Atari to afford this nice video shoot for "Barkley Shut Up and Jam" (photos here: http://www.ataritimes.com/index.php?ArticleIDX=368) that required Ed to buy a nice camera or two, necessary gear, rent a studio, and to hire pro actors with the money. Apparently he took it and went out and bought this new exclusive car, but reserved enough "budget" so we could do most of work our selfs. Ed did his best Cecil B. DeMille (barking out orders), the "studio" was some bare concrete space around an indoor skate park/ramp he rented, and we all became "actors" in this shoot (programers and artists), that ran late into the night. Although for the win he did find a pro(?) actor that did look a hell of a lot like Barkley. And then poor Gary (who went on to be the Lead Environmental Artist for WOW @ Blizzard) and the rest of the artists had to clean all these rough frames out of these videos and turn them into smooth animations. I see Ed has a site (http://www.edringler.com/career.htm) where he's hocking bed frames these days. Sadly (no thanks to Ed's finagling) neither BHH nor CBSJ never made to the market before that era of Atari died. But luckily copies of them in one state or the other exist.
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