Nintendo Brain Training By Dr. Kawashima DS

Give your grey matter the workout it needs to stay sharp and focused. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is inspired by the research of Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. His theories revolve around keeping brains stimulated by performing mental activities quickly. Brain Age is a series of exercises designed to give your brain a workout. Activities include solving math problems, counting people going in and out of a house, drawing pictures on the touch screen, and reading classic literature out loud.

When users start a new game, they will take a series of tests that determine their brain age within the game. This number is referred to as the DS brain age. As players use the software over a series of weeks and months, their ability to perform the exercises will improve, and their DS brain age will decrease. Progress is charted in graph form. Users can keep up to four save files on one game card. Sharing a game allows them to compare their results with those of family and friends. Users can also send a demo version of Brain Age to friends or compete with up to 16 players in a battle to see who can solve math problems the fastest.

Brain Age also includes more than 100 sudoku puzzles, which are among the most popular types of brain-challenging puzzles in the world.

When users first start a new game, they will be given a Brain Age Check that determines the age of their DS brains. Each day, they can compete for the high score in any activities they have unlocked. They can also check the age of their DS brains once per day. The more training they do, the more activities they will unlock. Brain Age is designed to be played in small chunks over a long period of time and can hold data from a year of activity.