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| Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? (Nintendo DS) | 
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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (145 reviews)
Sales Rank: 56
Language: English (Unknown)
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Rating: To Be Announced
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 3 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: ntr p ande
Model: 45496737122
UPC: 045496737122
EAN: 0045496737122
ASIN: B000EGELP0
Publication Date: April 2006
Release Date: June 9, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| • | Dr Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo DS is a fun | | • | rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy | | • | as it helps players flex their mental muscles. |
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 140 more reviews...
Banish Boiled Brains June 6, 2009
Great for getting the old brain matter going.
Working in Accounts I assumed my brain was fit and healthy, but this has shown me the different ways to keep your brain firing on all cylinders.
Great for keeping your Brain fit. May 27, 2009
Dr Kawashima's Brain Training has sold more then 10 million worldwide and is still selling strong because it appeals to people that don't normally play video games. The aim of the game is to better your brain age by playing the daily training tests which evolve maths, sudoku, stroop colour test, memory exercises and many more. When you do your daily test training you are given three different test and at the end you are told your brain age. I find with the stroop colour test that the DS does'nt always understand my voice and when writing things down it gets my handwriting wrong to at times. If you miss a days training Dr Kawashima will tell you that he has missed you and there are graphs where you can look at how your brain age has improved or got worse during your daily training. This is the only game in which my mum is better then me at and is great fun in multiplayer.
 Not as good as expected May 7, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I expected this game to be better than it actually was. Brilliant idea, but already it seems a little dated in format. Could do with more exercises, I'm already a little bored with them after 1 week.
brain training April 15, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
great game good educational value, make little improvements everyday and have fun while doing so !
 Great fun April 10, 2009
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game is just such fun, and is great for all the family no matter what age you are. It is fun, silly and competitive all at once. Can't wait to try "More Brain Training".
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