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Memorized word recognition DOESN'T WORK!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love the games, UNTIL I get to the section where you memorize the words and write down as many as you can afterwards. I have purchased TWO of the Brain Age 1 games, hoping that the first one was just malfunctioning. Unfortunately, they both don't work! It doesn't matter how neatly I write the word or if I use lower or upper case! The game doesn't translate to the correct letter most of the time! And when I DO get the correct word recognized, the game often doesn't accept it! I AM SO FRUSTRATED by this!!! You would have thought that they would have tested this and gotten the bugs out!

BRAIN FRUSTRATION!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I do not have an accent or any kind of speech impediment. The only language I have ever spoke is English. BUT, the microphone interpreter on both Brain Age 1 and Brain Age 2 are terrible!! It is MOST frustrating when the mic misinterprets your answers and counts them as incorrect!!! I thought that there might be an improvement on the 2nd Brain Age, but couldn't even get past the "rock, paper, scissors" without the same problem. I much prefer Flashfocus or Brain Boost! Maybe it's the mic on my DS Lite. Oh by the way, my two teenagers ALSO have a problem with the microphone (and my daughter uses her own DS Lite)! Weird!! I am at the point of getting rid of the games just to recoup some of the money that I put out for them!

Frustrating!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just purchased this game and was excited to use it. My husband used it first and he does have sloppy handwriting and had a lot of answers marked incorrect because he felt the game was unable to read his writing. I tried it and had the same problem. I have neat writing and have tried all different ways and speeds to write the answers, both the math and the word memorization. I am 37 and it ranked my brain age as 80. The system recognized all of my 0's as 5's and my k's as x's and even at times mistook s's for i's (How is that even possible?). The concept of the game is good but frustrating because you are getting the answers correct but being marked incorrect because of the game's malfunctions. If you can get passed being judged incorrectly by the game then it is good training for your brain.

Handwriting recognition is frustrating

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Disregarding everything else about this product, the handwriting recognition can be extremely frustrating. All of the training exercises are wholly focused on speed and poor number recognition of numbers is exacerbated by hurried, sloppy writing. Very, very often it confuses a "5" with "4"; "3" with "7"; and "2" with "7". I'm disappointed that the handwriting recognition is so sub-par when it's entire aim is fast-paced writing. It can make me scream sometimes to get it to recognize "45" as 45 (worst is about four or five tries).

Handwriting aside, it's a good way to keep sharp on basic math -- addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division -- and other basic critical reasoning. The math reminds me of time tables from early elementary school.

The sudoku is a nice bonus though.

Frustrating technology

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Nice idea. BUT. The biggest frustration is the poor quality of voice recognition and the misread of entries like'1' that becomes '7' and '5' that becomes '9'or even '4'. The result is that you keep getting scores that do not reflect what you have entered - no matter how slowly you repeat the word or write the numbers. The upside is that as a 50 year old i scored the brain age of a 29 year old. Novelty and challnege was soon replaced by frustration. suggest you buy Sudoko or Crosswords and do them to keep mentally active...

fun, fun, fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am not a gamer by any means but when it comes to educational games, I'm for all the way. The kids have allowed me to participate with them and this is truly a fun game.

Age Check is Incompetant

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The program technology seems sound, but don't be discouraged by the brain age test. The handwriting recognition is so horrifically incompetent that it won't recognize 75% of your letters, hence making you do really poorly on the written tests. I would do really well on the non-written tests, and then get aggravated as I typed the correct letter over and over and over,quite clearly, only for it to not accept it. Similar results with numbers, but not quite as bad.

Challenging

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this very much. It is very challenging and pushes you to improve your skills~ It takes a bit to get the hand recognition right but after that it goes pretty smoothly.

Brain teaser.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great for anytime. This weekend I played with a friend and it was so much fun!

very interesting, not a game really.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This product is fun to use, but it is not a game, and the floating head gets creapy after a while. Good daily distraction.

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