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Get smarter !

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game to play to improve your brain power. If you like being tested on what you know, your memory, and how fast you can read, this is the game for you. Its fun, you are greeted by your very own doctor every time you turn on the game, and he askes you what you ate for diner, tells you how bad it was for you, and you do your daily brain exercized. Then you can to test your brain power. He tells you how old your brain is, but its okay, but you can impove it! The best brain you can get is I believe 20 years old. The first time I played, he told me my brain was ... 67 years old... (im only 21). So you play every day, its kind of repeditive. You can get board of it pretty easily. Its for the older crowd. They also have suduko in this game if you enjoy playing that.

Its fun.. if you like that kinda thing..

uhmm...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: July 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i was wondering... which game is better... brain age or big brain academy?????? can someone write back and tell me???? Thanks!

cool but repetitive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: August 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My dad decided to buy this game when I bought the ds. It was fun for a while but after some time I just got bored with it. It pretty educational so if your mom doesn't like to buy games, buy this. If not don,t buy this. Instead buy mario cart.

IT'S A RIP OFF!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 23
Date: April 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The stupid thing doesn't recognize your handwriting so when you write the correct answer under timed conditions it counts it as wrong. Likewise, it often can't understand your voice either. So you sit there for 10 minutes saying the same thing over and over again and it keeps asking you to repeat it. There is one "test" where you're asked to memorize 30 words in 2 minutes and then write them all back in 1 minute. Fine; great; no problem. Right? WRONG! It can't recognize your handwriting so you, under timed conditions, you can't even get one of the words. So at the end, the software tells you that you're basically stupid. Well, I'm returning it and the lame Nintendo DS too. DON'T BUY IT! It will only frustrate you.

Not a game, more of an exercise (and that's not bad).

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's tough to rate Brain Age as a "game", cause it is not. It's an exercise for your brain set up almost like a game, where you have to complete various stages of trainning.

Don't get this thinking it's the best new game for your system - get this as an alternative to other games you might have. It's good to play something and, whwn you're bored with it, switch to Brain Age and complete a few trainnings.

The different ways of exercising always use the stylus and involve stuff like math, visual coordination, memory, pen handling, sudoku, etc. After you complete a stage, your brain is classified according to its age - if you're really good, you might be score in the low 20s; perform badly, and get something like high 60s.
It's nice that the game keepd track of your progress in a day to day basis.

Multiplayer is limited but it's there and it's fun.

There's not much to say abot graphics and sounds - as I said this is not really a game, but more of an exercise for your brain and that's how you gotta look at it.

If you have other games to play on your DS, get this for a nice relaxing change. If it's your first and only game, get a real GAME, not this. This is not a game, it's a change of pace.

I love it, and so does my girlfriend/mom/sister and quite possibly anyone I show to. It's easy to get it, it's fun, it's perfect for a quick fix and it lasts a lot.

I'd say get it, except if you don't have any other DS game.

ADDICTING!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I brought this in to work for a friend of mine and she got addicted too and ran out and bought it. Her fiance is now also addicted and since they're not always together, he wants to run out and buy a DS just to be able to play the game!! Just goes to show how thirsty our minds are for high level brain activity.

OK for a while

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

An interesting concept, but after several tries, I found it boring... especially since I am not fond of Sudoku puzzles.

Problem with number recognition!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The goal is to measure your "brain age" by your response time and accuracy answering questions, many of which are numerical. I make my eights as a "stack of zeros", the way I was taught in drafting class. Brain Age does not recognize that as an eight, calling it, instead a zero or an error. I must either remember to make my eights the way Brain Age insists, slowing my response time, or live with Brain Age recording every answer with an eight in it as an error. Either way hurts my score. In short, the people who programmed Brain Age do not have the mental flexibility that they are trying to encourage in the users.

Oh yeah, my wife loves it.

Brainage for a Brainy retired man!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was a gift for my retired physician husband. Judging by how much I see him "play" it, he likes it a lot!! Winter is a great time for "brainy" games!

Fantastic Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Love this games as my 10 year nephew, my 70 year old mother and myself 34 years old all had fun playing these brain games. We even roped in my 65 year old father for a turn. Everyone had fun and the test/games keep you interested. And I love the fact that something is out there electronically to help keep the brain stimulated instead of mesmorized!

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