Control malfunction

Video game concept

platforms

Under certain circumstances player's controls may malfunction or behave unexpectedly, commonly as a product of drunkenness, confusion status effect, or similar.

Notable people involved: Joe Rumsey 'Ogre smash', Arnt Jensen, Dino Patti, Dean Dodrill and Rick Ryan

Alternate names: Altered controls, Inverted controls

Prince of Persia

WIN 2008-12-09

Heart of Africa

C64 1985

Prince of Persia

X360 2008-12-02

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues

LIN 2018-03-27

NES 1992-08

SNES 1995-09-18

MAC 1999-02-09

WIN 1998

PS2 2002-12-12

DOS 1997

X360 2010-07-21

PS3 2011-07-19

Related:
* Control loss - complete loss of control in one or more aspects.
* Involuntary actions

This commonly causes movement controls to be inverted though something more drastic is possible such as randomizing all controls.

A more recent variation causes characters to move erratically on their own while poorly responding to controls, possibly moving slightly off target and so forth.

Note: This is not for controller malfunctioning, only for intentional cases.