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Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain (Nintendo DS) | 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  174 reviews
Sales Rank: 170
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: puzzle-games
Rating: To Be Announced
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 3 - 18 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: NTRPANDE
Model: 45496737122
UPC: 045496737122
EAN: 0045496737122
ASIN: B000EGELP0
Publication Date: April 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: "How Old Is Your Brain?" is the latest Japanese phenomenon on Nintendo DS - and now it's hitting Europe! If you're bored of playing games that don't stretch your brain cells and you'd like to give your grey matter an extensive workout, pick up this program. The tests have been devised in cooperation with Dr. Kawashima himself, a renowned neuroscientist. With Brain Training you can train both your mental awareness and your memory. Hold the DS vertically, like a book, and write your answers with the stylus on the touch screen. The exercises are quick challenges that help stimulate your brain. There's a combination of arithmetic, reading and memory tests, and the program calculates your score in the form of a 'brain age' by assessing the speed and accuracy by which you perform these simple tasks. The title has sold over 1.4 million copies in Japan and is hugely popular with young and old alike. And that's hardly surprising - because playing regularly for just a few minutes a day has been found to stimulate parts of the brain related to thinking, creativity and concentration. So if you want to tone your intellectual muscle, Brain Training is a fine way to get started!
Amazon.co.uk Review
In a nutshell:
The portable phenomenon that has taken Japan by storm finally hits the UK. Part puzzle game, part self improvement tool this is the only game that's both lots of fun and good for you - and that's before you even start on Sudoku!The lowdown:
Nothing about this game is ordinary, from the price to the way you hold the DS while playing it (vertically, as if you were reading a book). The basic idea is that you play through a series of puzzles each day, for about 10 minutes, and at the end of each session the "age" of your brain is calculated. The puzzles themselves range from simple maths questions to spot the difference, memorisation and comprehension. All of the answers are inputted either by drawing the answer on the touchscreen or speaking it into the DS's in-built microphone. There's also a multiplayer mode for up to 15 people where you can try and compete to record the youngest brain age. Most exciting moment:
A brand new addition to the game, not included in the Japanese version, is a special DS version of Sudoku. This works great on the DS's touch screen and is worth the already low price of admission on its own. Since you ask:
A sister title to Brain Training, named Big Brain Academy, is due for release in July and offers to "weigh" your brain and improve specific skills such as memorisation and analysis. A direct sequel to Brain Training has also been released in Japan but is not yet scheduled for released in the UK. The bottom line:
The only game that really is for the whole family - from kids to OAPs.
Harrison Dent
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 Infuriatng game a waste of good money! July 15, 2010
Black McKnight (UK)
This game led me, after just about a couple of weeks of use, to throw my precious nintendo accros the room. It does not recognise your voice or handwritting. Sometimes it puts words or numbers in when you have only just touched the screen. It tediously repeats instructions for games it should know you have already played. Lastly, the games are tedious, boring and you get little choice of what to play. Buy Big Brain acadamy. It's everything this is not!
 The game is fantastic!! June 30, 2010
A92 (United Kingdom)
The game is awesome and im so happy i bought it. I've been playing it for a while now and i can certainly see a difference in the way i think about things and the speed of my brain, which is quite surprising as i thought the game would not make such an impact.
The game includes a host of different activities and even gives you a graph to compare your results with previous results from months before, to see if you have increased your brain power!!
10/10
Really Fun April 12, 2010
S. Haque (London)
This game is amazing, it is can be enjoyed by people of all ages. I played it, so did my little sister and my dad.
Good for old brains March 9, 2010
Mr. Colin Walters
Very good game for the more mature person, endless fun. When you start playing you just can't put the think down, and the jobs you had planned for the day just disappear out of the window. Only criticism I have is the voice recognition, on certain colours you have to train your voice to one which the software accepts.
Gazza March 1, 2010
Mr. G. MULDREW (NORTHERN IRELAND)
Good game when you work out how to play it but when you do it passes the time well.
Gazza
Northern Ireland
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