Game Room

Here is the EXACT way to get this achievement easily on Adventure. Here's what you do:

1) Buy Adventure for 240 MSP.
2) Start it up
3) Go to where the black gate is in the area where you start. The spot you are going to be bouncing against is in the open space directly to the right of the gate, in the top left corner.
4) Once you are at the spot described above, but something heavy, like a 500 page book (i.e. a small dictionary) on your left joystick and make sure it is pulling the joystick towards the top-left of your controller.
5) You should now be bounching between the top and the left of this small, tight corner. Since your cube is moving so fast and going in so many directions, it should record the time accurately.
6) IMPORTANT!!! When you are done, make sure you hit the back button, then scroll down to exit game. It should rack up how much time you were playing, which will add onto your total time for the achievement.

With the method described above, you should be able to have your time played recorded accurately, thus making the achievement tons easier to obtain. I achieved 36 hours in two days of leaving my Xbox on and my joystick weighted down.

WARNING!
Game Room has been known for freezing after long periods of play time, so be sure to exit the game every six hours or so and rack up your time to guarantee you don't lose all of your hard work.

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This achievement requires that you play games for 36 hours. You can obviously just play games for 36 hours, but I used an alternate method for this that also gets me the gold time spender medal, as I didn't accumulate 36 hours earning all the survivor and points gold medals I needed, leaving me with just time spenders.

The way I did this was using a turbo controller. Enter the classic mode (not ranked) of just about any game and then turn turbo on for the left trigger (the rewind button). I used a Horipad X-2 turbo controller for this, although I don't think it matters. This will result in the game slowly rewinding until it rewinds as far as it can, and then it will move forward half a second, rewind back, and then repeat the process again and again. Since the game can't end, you never have to worry about the timer stopping or the game idling out. I leave it on when I go to work, go to sleep, hang out with friends, whatever.

You can switch games as you like to get gold time spenders medals, or you can leave it on one game for 36 hours if you like. It's cumulative across games and playing sessions so any combination will work. Achievement will pop whenever you've hit the 36 hour mark and you don't need to end the game to get it, so it will probably pop sometime while you are at work/school etc, so make sure it's connected to live if you want a timestamp.

A small fraction of the games won't allow you to do this because they freeze too damn often. Super Breakout and Battleanis froze night after night when I left them on turbo and I had to do them manually. Your experience may differ. As I said, it's only a fraction, as I had 27 games total and only 2 were crashing.

You can get this achievement by simply playing Game Room for a long time, or you can use the rubber band trick. I've found Adventure to be the easiest, but that's me. Make sure you save it every few hours to make sure the time saves. If you leave it overnight, back out first thing in the morning so you can get the hours.

Also make sure you use a wired controller, so that it doesn't turn off after you walk away.

I'm pretty sure that even if it glitches, you get some time credited to the achievement, but I'm not entirely sure.

For the people that are trying the "Adventure" method of going into a corner and tying a P&C kit around your analog stick to keep your cube moving, but not having time count after a few min.

The reason is because the game is not recognizing the analog stick as gameplay. In order for the gameplay to be counted, you need to have face button constantly being pressed (A,X,B,Y). For people like me that have turbo controllers, this method will work.

-Go into Adventure

-Go to a corner of the game and just have your guy constantly moving into the corner

-Set your Turbo for the 'A' button and tape it down or have something heavy depress the button.

Not only is your character constantly moving, but you are also pressing an action button in the game Adventure. The reason why I say action button is because the 'A' button has a key function in the game for dropping items, which I don't think any other face button does, so having the action button constantly being pressed counts as gameplay and keeps the clock moving.

I tried the other methods of just keeping my character moving against the wall, but it would stop counting after a min. I tried this method last night and received 8 hrs credit towards my time. I hope this helps everyone.

I did it on my Windows Phone (Lunar Lander, Pitfall). If you have any of the game-room titles for the phone (Lunar Lander, Pitfall, Centipede, Asteroids) the time spend there is added to game-room on the Xbox when you start it the next time.

So you can play something else on the Xbox while your phone does the grinding, you just have to tap on your Phone to start a new game (Lunar Lander every 5 min. and Pitfall every 20 min.)...;-)

Another way to do this - if you are willing to be in the same room as your 360 but doing something else (watching TV for example) involves either having Shao-Lin's Road or Super Breakout.

Simply put one of these games on. Use Classic Mode for Shao Lin's, or either mode for Super Breakout.

Once that is done, simply switch over and watch your TV, occasionally moving your controller (if you haven't got a plug-in controller) back and forth.

Every hour or so, end the game so te time is recorded, and then start a new one.

You'll eventually reach 36 hours with this method, along with your normal Game Room playing. Have fun!

Here is one more solution and this one requires a turbo controller and the game ARMOR BATTLE.

This is two player game with NO AI controlled opponent.

With any programable turbo controller.

Start your game and set the two turbo buttons to LB & RB. The reason is: theses two buttons will switch between your two tanks. Unfortunatly this game does have an in game timer that will time you out and freeze the game if your not active. Thus the reason for the switching between the tanks with a turbo controller.
Mine is a hard wired controller so if you don't have one use the charge and play kit to suplement.

I ran this 2 nights in a row and not once did it freeze on me. So it was 8-10 hours each time I did it.

THANKS goes to SparkyMP for finding this.

Matchstick Eyes achievement - Spend 36 hours total playing games in your arcade

I played "Kaboom" from the Atari 2600 games for this achievement. Play a "ranked" game. After the 3 second countdown, the game will begin. But the bomber won't drop bombs until you press the "A" button. Just move the Lt stick at least once a minute and the clock will keep ticking.

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