Nintendo DS

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!

Description

Does your brain feel a little out of shape? Brain Age is what you need to shape up your mental thought processes. The game is inspired by the research of Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. Through years of researching the effects of performing reading and mathematical exercises he has compiled simple takes that will help to stimulate the brain.

Designed to help people young and old to stay mentally sharp, Brain Age gives you quick mental tasks that will stimulate your prefrontal cortex. You'll start off by taking a test of what your current brain is at. The ideal age to shoot for is 20. To get your brain age to the mental sharpness of a 20 year old if you're not there yet, you'll need to fire up the game daily to do daily training. With the use of the stylus and touch screen, or in some tests the microphone, you will go through tasks as fast as you can like solving simple math problems, memorizing the placement of objects on the screen, memorizing a list of words and having to recall as many as you can, and more. As the days go by the professor will unlock different puzzles for you to tackle to keep your gray matter as sharp as possible.

You can jump into Quick Play to show your friends and family or to just do a mental sharpening. Go into Daily Training to track your brain age, check out your progress on a graph, and do your daily training. Go to Download and you can compete against friends to see who can do math calculations the fastest.

The US and European versions include Sudoku to also keep your brain in shape.

Alternate Titles

• "東北大学未来科学技術共同研究センター川島隆太教授監修　脳を鍛える大人のＤＳトレーニング" -- Japanese Spelling
• "Programme d'Entrainement Cerebral du Dr. Kawashima: Quel âge a votre cerveau?" -- French title
• "Kahashima Ryuuta Kyouju no Nou wo Kitaeru Otona no DS Training for Adults" -- Japanese Title
• "매일매일 DS 두뇌 트레이닝" -- Korean spelling
• "Dr. Kawashimas Gehirn-Jogging: Wie fit ist Ihr Gehirn?" -- German Title
• "Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?" -- European/Australian Title
• "Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: Hoe oud is jouw brein?" -- Dutch Title
• "Brain Training del Dr. Kawashima: Quanti anna ha il tuo cervello?" -- Italian title
• "Brain Training del Dr. Kawashima: ¿Cuántos Años Tiene tu Cerebro?" -- Spanish title

Part of the Following Groups

• Nintendo Brain Game series
• Sudoku games
• Touch! Generations games

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The Press Says

Eurogamer	Apr 25, 2006	9 out of 10	90
Thunderbolt Games	May 22, 2007	8 out of 10	80
Cubed3	Jun 18, 2006	8 out of 10	80
Nintendo Spin	Apr 18, 2006	8 out of 10	80
Jeuxvideo.com	Jun 09, 2006	15 out of 20	75
Sliced Gaming (GameBiz)	Sep 27, 2006	7.5 out of 10	75
Yahoo! Games	Apr 17, 2006		70
Gamezine	Jun 27, 2006	13 out of 20	65
EL33TONLINE	Oct 23, 2006		60
Game Revolution	Apr 14, 2006	C	50

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Trivia

At the Nintendo keynote at GDC 2006 in San Jose, Ca., Nintendo President Satoru Iwata gave all the attendees a free pre-release copy of Brain Age so that they could demo it to their friends and family.