While testing the game, Bill came across a bug: every now and then, the game would, seemingly at random, hyperspace you. He and his boss, Mike Minkoff, went over the code with a fine-tooth comb before realizing what the problem was: the Intellivision hand controllers encode button presses in such a way that an action (side) key pressed at the same time as particular directions on the disc will be interpreted instead as a numeric key being pressed. There was no software way around this; shooting while moving would occasionally be interpreted as pressing 9 -- the hyperspace button.

After several days of puzzling over a solution, the bug was ultimately "fixed" by including the following note in the instruction manual:

"Every once in a while, your space hunter will move near a 'black hole,' and the computer will automatically put him into HYPERSPACE. This will cost you the same number of points as if you had pressed the HYPERSPACE key yourself. On the other hand, it will save your hunter."

This led to an axiom frequently heard around Mattel: If you document it, it's not a bug -- it's a feature. Anytime a game in development crashed -- no matter how badly or bizarrely -- witnesses would invariably turn to the frustrated programmer, shrug, and calmly say "document it."

From the trivia section for Space Hawk for the Intellivision on intellivisionlives.com.

At the glass’ base were dozens of revolving doors leading into the Cathode-La’s main lobby.  The doors were flanked by two massive white columns that stood as high as
the building. In between them hung a huge white banner. “Welcome to ShatnerCon!” was printed on it in black scripted letters.

As the limo pulled around the corner of the building a lone man sitting on the ground caught Shatner’s eye. He wore
a t-shirt with Bruce Campbell in the “Army of Darkness” movie-poster pose on the front. He held a cardboard sign with the crude, hand-written message: “Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! Don’t follow the False Messiah!”

The man raised his right arm and waved a stump wrapped in white fabric at the passing limo. Shatner felt a shiver go down his spine even though he was sure the limo’s tinted windows prevented the man from seeing inside.

Fucking Campbellians. They’re even here.

William Shatner had no personal problem with Bruce Campbell. He understood that Bruce was just another actor trying to squeak out a living in the dog-eat-dog world of entertainment. Shatner just wished that he would stop encouraging his followers to destroy all those who competed for the straight-to-video dollars. The constant death threats and assassination attempts were getting annoying.

It's the first ShatnerCon with William Shatner as the guest of honor!  But after a failed terrorist attack by Campbellians, a crazy terrorist cult that worships Bruce Campbell, all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world.  Their mission: hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner.