17 games in 15 days

Is what I have left, and I honestly don't think I can do it. Finals week has made me busy as all hell, and it's continuing until Saturday. Even though at that point I'll be free and clear, I'll still have a job (retail during the Christmas season, no less) and most of the money I'll be earning will be going into Christmas gifts, so I doubt I'll be able to buy enough arcade games.

If one or two more really easy games come out between now and January 1st, I may be able to do this, but here's how it currently stands:

I need to complete 17 more arcade games.

• I can finish Sonic 1 in about 3 more hours.
• I can finish 'Splosion Man in about 5-8 more hours.
• If the gods grace me with a royal soon, I can finish Texas Hold 'Em in about 5 hours.
• I can finish Braid in about 4 hours.
• I can finish Feeding Frenzy in about 5 hours.

That's about 25 hours, and I'd still need 12 more past that. I'd need to start Wallace + Gromit 1-4, Sealife Safari, Sam+Max 1-2, Shinobi, Sonic 2-3, Comic Zone, and Feeding Frenzy 2.

The main problem is that I don't own any of those besides Sonic 2, and I have no points to my name. As I'm typing this now, it actually seems like a reasonable timeframe, but I'd need to come up with about 10,000 Microsoft points, which again might be possible.

All I know for sure is that after this rush, I'll still want 52 more arcade completions to one day join the 100/100 club, but that's far off, and I'll be playing harder arcades. At year's end, regardless of how this challenge works out, I'll be working on climbing the 360v sandbox leaderboards. I'm currently #66, and I haven't even played 7 out of the 17 games on the list.