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Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS is a fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy, as it helps players flex their mental muscles. Brain Age is inspired by the research of Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. His studies evaluated the impact of performing certain reading and mathematic exercises to help stimulate the brain.
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- Pros: Great idea. I like the sideways configuration. The ability to switch from right to left handed is a great option to have. Nice menu set up. Learned to play sudoku from this game, and still enjoy a game now and then.
- Cons: While I was greatly interested in "training my brain", I got bored with the training exercises in 2 weeks. I still play sudoku once in a while, though. Also, unless you have perfect handwriting, the handwriting recognition can really screw up your brain age results, frustrate you while training and cause time penalties while playing sudoku. Also, I had a bunch of friends and family test their brain age, and the voice recognition seemed have problems with the word "blue", which once again, effects the results.
- Other Thoughts: Great buy, as long as you are really focused on training your brain, and can get past some of the difficulties with the writing/voice recognition. Wouldn't recommend you buy any other games when you buy this one though, so you can keep focused. I think that's where I went wrong, since I bought tetris at the same time.
Practical application
- Pros: This is one of the coolest ideas I have seen on any gaming system. Its designed to activate a fairly important area of your brain, the prefrontal cortex. That area of the brain is primarily responsible for deciding between correct/incorrect and desirable/undesirable choices. The more you train with this product, the more efficient this area of your brain becomes at performing these evaluations! Talk about a life-hack.
- Cons: Its not really a *game*, per say. Its a training device. Think of it as a gym for your brain. But unlike a gym, it only targets one general area in particular. What about other useful brain areas? Finally, bad handwriting will throw off your scores. That is frustrating. I don't know how it mistakes my 1s for 5s... grrrr. I have also heard that it doesn't recognize the spoken word "blue" very good, but I have only had a problem with that maybe twice.
- Other Thoughts: I hope to see more "games" like this. People have already suggested links between gaming and increased eye-hand coordination. Why not make gaming a more practical endeavor. Being able to blow off a little steam AND increase your brain function at the same time... its great!
| Model | 045496737122 |
| ESRB Rating | E - Everyone |
| Genre | Family & Education |
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Good for kids and adults
- Pros: Great price good shipping came as expected niece loves it my mom also likes playing it.. so it was a win win.. i dont have much information how challenging or fun it is but both of them like it and thats enough i need to hear from a gift giving aspect
- Cons: could be cheaper specially since brain age 2 isnt much more.
- Other Thoughts: worth it for some extra fun challenging games for a young kid who needs more stimulation besides tv and other drama
Simply Great!!
- Pros: Really interesting game and stimulates the brain. One of the very few games that is really useful!
- Cons: None
- Other Thoughts: Highly recommened for elementary school children.
- Pros: It's a nice little brain workout. It does what it's designed to do, which is sharpen the mind. It's fun, but it isn't extremely time consuming. The price is also nice.
- Cons: for those of us who may have an accent, southern (in my case) or otherwise, some of the exercises can be a little frustrating. The game has trouble understanding me at times.
- Other Thoughts: The DS stylus is a bit short for me. I just bought a ink pen sized stylus from an office supply store to replace it.
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Nintendo |
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Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! |
| Model |
045496737122 |
| ESRB Rating |
E - Everyone |
| Genre |
Family & Education |
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Nintendo DS |
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The Brain Age exercises are designed to stimulate your brain. Solving simple math and logic problems quickly, and reading aloud, have been proven to be effective methods of achieving this goal.
The distinctive Nintendo DS Touch Screen lets users write their answers with a Stylus pen, just as though they were writing on paper or using a Personal Digital Assistant or "PDA". Furthermore, the Nintendo DS's voice input identifies particular words you'll speak during the Stroop Test.
Brain Age tracks your progression through each exercise with easy-to-read line charts. Consistently using Brain Age each day will open new exercises to test your ability.
Brain Age includes a fun calculation competition for friends and family. Only one Brain Age Game Card is needed. With the DS's user-friendly interface, it's a snap to download this minigame to as many as 15 DS systems!
Baby Boomers and test-prepping school kids alike want to challenge themselves and find ways to stay sharp. Brain Age acts like a treadmill for the mind. With the simplicity of the Nintendo DS, and Brain Age's challenging and rewarding exercises, everyone can stimulate their DS brain, improving speed and accuracy of their game play. |
Introduction
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS is a fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy, as it helps players flex their mental muscles. Brain Age is inspired by the research of Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. His studies evaluated the impact of performing certain reading and mathematic exercises to help stimulate the brain.
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Reviewed By: Banshee Fay on 9/8/2006
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
