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Game Room

Arcade

Written by YouStayClassy

Sunday, 25 July 2010 04:59

Time To 1000 - 40+ Hours

Ease Of Game - 1-3/10 (games vary by difficulty)

Number Of Playthroughs Required - as this is a collection of different games, this doesn't really apply

Total Number Of People Needed To Boost Online Achievements - 1 (you can boost all the achievements by yourself with a second silver account on your console, but 2 people is recommended so you don't have to constantly keep signing profiles in and out)

First and foremost, this guide is a WORK IN PROGRESS.

This guide is going to be written for the fastest, easiest, and most importantly, CHEAPEST way to get the full 1000 out of game room. This guide is also being written based off the 360 version and not the Windows PC version, although they are identical the PC version has been reported to be VERY glitchy. So glitchy in fact I would recommended NEVER playing the PC Version, as there have many many identical reports online of the PC Version erasing ALL of your 360 Game Room save files.

Notes:

VERY IMPORTANT: if you are a completionist and do not plan on spending the money needed to 1k this game, DO NOT download it. The second you download this game and start it up you get an achievement, so it's stuck on your gamercard forever

Game Room is very similar to the Xbox Live Arcade release of EA's Family Game Night, where it's a free download for the program itself but you have to buy the actual games. You can begin by downloading the program here (this link is for the U.S. 360 version of the game, check your country's marketplace for region specific versions)

However you're not done yet, after downloading Game Room you need to download the Game Packs. These are free add-ons to the game that basically serve as an in-game store, showing you what games are available for purchase.

Download Game Pack 1 here

Download Game Pack 2 here

Download Game Pack 3 here

Download Game Pack 4 here

Download Game Pack 5 here

Download Game Pack 6 here

Download Game Pack 7

How The Heck Does Game Room Work?

Game Room is a very fun and addicting thing if you're into retro gaming. However it was released with a rather poor explanation of how it works, such as multiple price points for games, mysterious tokens, and a levelling system based off medals.

The goal of Game Room is to earn medals from the various games you buy. Every medal (Bronze, Silver, Gold) has a different point value, every 20 points you go up a Level. The only thing going up a Level does is unlock various things in your arcade (wallpapers and decorations), but you need to hit Level 20 to get all the related achievements

Medals are earned in three different ways:

Point Buster - earn a set amount of points in a single game session

Survivalist - stay alive for a set amount of time in a single game session

Time Spender - play the game for a set amount of time over multiple playthroughs

Games are available in four versions:

Demo Play - this is where you use your tokens, to "recreate" the experience of putting tokens in an arcade machine. Demo play has nothing to do with the achievements, it's just a 10 minute trial to see how the game plays

Single Play - available for 40 Microsoft Points (MSP). This also gives you a 10 minute play of a game, however this time you can earn medals off it IF you can meet the point and survival based criteria. This can be an effective way to get easy medals for cheap in some games, but if you miss the targets you're now out 40 MSP

Full Game - available for 240 MSP. This gives you the full "retail" version of the game to play as long as you want, as well as the ability to get time based medals

Play Anywhere Game - available for 400 MSP. Not only does this give you the full "retail" version on your 360 but also the ability to download it to your Windows PC and play it there. Since this is a money saving guide, we're going to be ignoring this option completely

At 240 MSP a game, Game Room will be a very expensive 1k. To reach the top Level in the game, you will need 76 medals total. As you can only earn 3 medals per game (and not all even have 3 medals available), you're looking at bare minimum of 26 games you need to buy. This works out to be 6,240 MSP (plus another 40MSP if you have to buy a Mascot), a little under $80 American. Pricey yes, but you know you paid more for Call of Duty with those stupid night vision goggles.

ACHIEVEMENT GUIDE

My First Theme - 5 points

Place a Theme in your arcade

See Fancy Arcade achievement for more information. This is a free achievement.

Theme Filler - 20 points

Place 5 unique Themes in your arcade

See Fancy Arcade achievement for more information. This is a free achievement.

Fancy Arcade - 20 points

Theme an entire arcade with unique Themes

Your arcade starts off with twelve empty rooms, each one can be decorated with a different theme from the "My Collection" menu. Game Room comes with a few themes, and Game Packs 1-5 and 7 each have a free theme as well. The rest you will unlock as you work on levelling up to Level 20

Note: the generic coloured themes do not count towards Theme achievements

My First Mascot - 5 points

Activate a Mascot in your arcade

Mascots are little moving game icons you can place in your arcade. In order to get one, you have to either buy one from the store for 40 MSP or when new Game Packs are released if you buy a game that has a mascot on the release date you get the mascot for free

My First Decoration - 5 points

Place a Decoration in your arcade

See Room Filler achievement for more information. This is a free achievement.

Proptastic - 20 points

Place 5 arcade Decorations in your arcade

See Room Filler achievement for more information. This is a free achievement.

My First Game - 5 points

Place a Game Cabinet in your arcade

You will get this upon purchasing your first game and placing it somewhere in your arcade

The Visitor - 5 points

Visit a Friend's arcade

From the Main Menu, you can select the Friends option and then Visit Arcade to see what their arcade looks like. This is a free achievement.

Show Me! - 5 points

Visit the Showcase Arcade

This is the notorious achievement you get the second you start the game for the first time. This is a free achievement.

The Player - 5 points

Play a Friend's Game Cabinet

This requires you to visit a friend's arcade and play one of their games. Demo Play will not count for the achievement, it has to be the Buy A Play Option. To get out of having to pay, you can play one of their arcade games that you already own. If none of your friends have an arcade game that you do, create a silver account on your 360 and set up an arcade then visit it with your Main Profile

Room Filler - 20 points

Fill an entire room

Fill every open slot in a room with arcade cabinets and props until the achievement pops. This is a free achievement

My First Win - 5 points

Win a Challenge

See Challenge Master achievement for more information

My First Challenge - 5 points

Send a Challenge

See Challenge Master achievement for more information

Challenge Chief - 5 points

Win 10 Challenges

See Challenge Master achievement for more information

Challenge Master - 20 points

Win 20 Challenges

From the Main Menu you can send challenges to a friend, which requires the friend to have the same game you do. You can set up the challenge to be score or survival based, whoever gets the highest score or survives the longest gets the win.

The easiest way to do this is if you don't have any friends that have the same game you do is create a silver account and send challenges to them with the easiest criteria to beat. Have the silver account score as low as possible, then beat that score on 20 different challenges for the achievement

Too Cool for my Score - 20 points

Beat your own High Score in a game

Start any game and die as fast as you can. Then start a new game and simply beat that score, the acheivement unlocking the second you do

My Blisters have Blisters! - 5 points

Play a game for 1 hour continuously

This requires you to actually play a game for an hour straight, not just start it and let it sit there. It also requires that you CANNOT lose all your lives and just start over again, it has to be an hour on a single play. If you play in Classic Mode (which doesn't count points or survival time), most games have a "Time Rewind" feature where you can rewind back to the beginning of the game with all your lives, you can use this before you are about to die and it won't count against you.

Note: Shark! Shark! is the best game to do this in, as it's very hard to die in that game and you can play it for well over an hour.

Arcade Junkie - 20 points

Spend 4 hours total playing games in your arcade

See Matchstick Eyes achievement for more information

Retro Addict - 20 points

Spend 8 hours total playing games in your arcade

See Matchstick Eyes achievement for more information

Go to Sleep - 20 points

Spend 16 hours total playing games in your arcade

See Matchstick Eyes achievement for more information

Machine not Man - 20 points

Spend 24 hours total playing games in your arcade

See Matchstick Eyes achievement for more information

Matchstick Eyes - 20 points

Spend 36 hours total playing games in your arcade

Accumulate a total of 36 hours in game time across all your games. You can check your times played in each game from the My Profile option on the Main Menu. This will come naturally as you working on getting 20 gold Time Spender medals

My First Medal - 5 points

Win your first Medal