Whoa. I frequented some Montreal BBSs back in the day, and while I don't recall coming across Bernie, I might have once found another game by the same author. I suppose the reason that I remember it at all is because it did have something of the same sense of mystery as that Bernie video - What is going on? What do these things do? How are you supposed to use them? Then one realizes that the game is total crap and stops asking questions.
Famous in Megazeux circles is Ed Venture, a notoriously terrible Megazeux board whose author had the gall to ask for money in the game.
Joe Snow comes to mind, but apparently someone liked that so much (and its four craptacular sequels) that a remake is in progress:
http://www.acoders.com/acsite/viewsoftware.php?id=142