| 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
Buy Used: £8.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  118 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Rating: To Be Announced
ESRB: Rating Pending
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 3 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: ntr p ande
Model: 45496737122
UPC: 045496737122
EAN: 0045496737122
ASIN: B000EGELP0
Release Date: June 9, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Barely used, mint condition
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| Customer Reviews:
 Surprisingly entertaining June 14, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've had the US version of this game since the beginning of May 2006 and my girlfriend and I have had a lot of fun competing to lower our 'Brain Age'. The aim is reduce your Brain Age from 80 (worst) to 20 (best) by training your brain with a number of simple tasks, such as calculations, reading aloud, and memory tests. It doesn't sound like much on paper but the game really pulls you in and has you coming back to it every day to beat your scores and unlock new training programs. There are 4 game files available and the game is best played with 2 or more people.
The Brain Training part of the game is fairly short-lived, however. What will keep you coming back for more is the Sudoku - 100 puzzles ranging from Basic, Intermediate, and.. [I haven't unlocked the third level yet!]. It is really well laid out and is an excellent introduction for novices such as myself. I've found, however, that some of the 'Basic' puzzles are on a par with the Guardian newspaper's 'Hard' puzzles.
This is the kind of game that anyone can pick up and play. Everyone I've showed it too has loved it and tried to steal my DS! For the low price, you won't regret buying it, and it will probably spend more time in your DS than most other games.
By the way, if the game is not recognising your pronunciation of 'Blue' in the Stroop test, try saying "Boo" instead.
Nintendo are the Best June 14, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a very interesting game. If you can call it a game.
It consists of a few tests that are very short-like Stroop,where you say the colour of words into the microphone as quick as you can, clear speaking is needed here, I find occasionally blue doesnt always get recogised. Word memory,Remember as many of the 30 words that are displayed then write them down in 3 minutes. Calculations,answer the simple sums as fast as you can. There is a few other tests.
You do 3 of them a day and your brain age comes up.
Dr Kawashima gives you tips along the way,and theres graphs to show you how you are doing. You can only have your brain age recorded once a day, but there is other things to do like daily training and sudoku. There is quite a few sudoku puzzles, and different levels, so I am ok I love beginner.
There is also multiplayer single card download play and you can send a demo of the game to another DS.
I really am enjoying this game, and I think Nintendo are brilliant for bringing us such different and fun games on the DS. There is so much choice of great titles.
This is great for people who believe they are thick... June 14, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
...ok, so the age is 3+, but for someone like me who got an F in Maths, this game makes you feel like a genius. At the moment I've gone from having the brain of an 80 year old to a 53 year old in just 2 training sessions and I'm actually 32. I've finally learned what a syllable is and I've cracked how to do Sudoku at last. The sums are easy enough, not to taxing for me cos I have trouble remembering my times table. Overall, this is a great game, fun for all the family and I bet your kid's will be better at it than you !!!
Great family fun for all ages June 12, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
We got the game without great expectations and were very pleasantly surprised. It's quite addictive although Dr Kawashima's "jokes" are a bit irritating. We thought that our 11 year old would play most of the games whilst Mum and Dad stuck to SUDOKU (which is incredibly well put together, easy to use and even gives you the tiny numbers in the corners option, so you can save your alternatives.)
But the games are fun, not too long, and because he records your brain age just once a day stops anyone from hogging the DS. [That said I want a DS lite of my own please Daddy!]
There are memory, quick thinking,and quirky little brain excercises and I will be keeping my training going. Any one who has a child enrolled in Kumon would appreciate this.[It's not so tedious.]
Finally it makes use of the dual screen, microphone, character recognition features of the DS, and encourages gentle family competition.
 Brain Bustin Fun June 12, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
On the face of it this game sounds as dull as you can get but after half an hour of playing time you cant help but enjoy it and have a laugh.
The game is split into three types of puzzles, speaking, drawing, math.
The speaking parts include reading out loud and saying the colour not the word game.
Drawing levels include drawing animals / pictures and plotting ways around a course.
The math levels are compleating sums ( + - x / )
Mixed in with diffrent levels of brain training this game is really aimed at all ages but I can see that for the most part the game would help kids and teenagers with there own maths class at school.
The main down part is that the game can not understand an accent very well so if you have a thick english accent the game does not recognise what you are saying.
Another issue is that the game seems to have a problem recognising the diffrence between 7, 9, 1, as well as g, q, t, when you write it down on the touch screen it appears as something else, this is very bad considering you are on a time limit and spend more time correcting what you have written instead of compleating the level.
All in all an excellent game let down by a few minor issues.
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