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i feel smater

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

by playing this game I've come to realize how retarded i really am. i've come to notice how bad my mermory really is. Thanks alot brain age!

Very adcting

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Brain Age Ds is a cool way to keep your brain sharp and updated.
The down thing is it lacks many of the games that the Japanese version has. But still a very nice way to keep you brain fit.

Great for 15 minutes a day.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game can be pretty addicting, with the charts that track your brain age and daily stamps on the calender tracking how often you play it, you start to want to play it everyday.
The initial game you play to determine your brain age was pretty frustrating because it is a voice recognition game, and apparently it wasn't programmed to understand a Texas draw, because I had to repeat myself over and over to the point I was screaming at the game before it accepted my answers. It gave me a brain age in the 60's. After that I continually told the system I was unable to speak, and without having to use the speaking games my brain age soon got down to 20, the best score of the game.
For a while I made sure I played everyday to get that stamp, but now, it is just something to pick up every once in a while to make sure I've still got it.

This Game is REALLY GOOD! AND EDUCATIONAL!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I own this game and it's pretty good! You start out with a few exercises and as you go along you get new exerises and unlock secrets. Each day you play it you get a tip. Those tips are actually good for you they work too! There is a guy who explains ever thing! It also helps you hand writting REALLY it doesn't matter if you a righty or a lefty.
It's good for ALL ages (no babys). It's almost like big brain academy, except more exciting! I totally reccomend it! Totally worth it!

Great little mind flexer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It is oddly fun doing puzzles and small equations to compare against your previous performance. Whereas most of us shy away from puzzle games normally, it's very encouraging to be able to chart your progress and see your performance improve over time. The simple arithmetic training is great, although I wish it could get more complex. The Sudoku is killer - I never played Sudoku before this, all looked a bit boring. I do a couple of puzzles every night now. I'm hooked.

Love it!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love this game!!! I play it every day.

I think its a wonderful concept and if it can keep my mind young then more power to it!

I cant wait for brain age 2 to come out. WooHoo!!!!

Great idea, decent design, poor implementation.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I got the Nintendo DS, it was mainly for the purpose of getting this game. I heard that it was designed by a neuroscientist of some sort and that it's really proven to assist with cognitive development. Great! Well, I've had it for a good 3 weeks now, and I've found it to contribute more to my life's level of frustration, not intelligence!

The one, and almost only, issue I have is the voice and character recognition. It's poor. There's one game where it shows you the names of colors in different colors, and you have to say out loud what color the word is written in (as opposed to the color that the word actually spells). Fair enough. Except it really has a hard time with "blue" so I lose TONS of points when in actuality I'm doing it right! And I'll never forget the first time I played the word memory game. It gives you 2 minutes to memorize like 30 random 4-letter words (no bad ones, of course). I went nuts trying to come up with a way to remember such innane information, but when the time finally came for me to test my acumen, it was all for naught because it didn't understand a freaking letter of what I was writing! It got the simple stuff... s, o, c, m, stuff like that. I could not get it to understand b, d, p, a, g, q, or anything with a circle and a thing coming off it! It thought my t's were x's half the time. And r was right out! Grr! I really felt like all my hopes and dreams of having this daily regimen of brain exercises right at my fingertips were flushed down the toilet, because this thing just doesn't see eye to eye with me!

Very disappointing!

Also, like many people here, I'm not convinced that "20" is the perfect brain age. It's this whole new field of brain plasticity that people are big on, which I think has some sound foundations in neural theory and common sense understanding of how the noodle works... and sure, brains may get a little rusty when you get old, but I really don't think it's a steady decline after 20! Like that's your peak mental fitness! Come on! From a LEARNING standpoint, your peak is in the early toddler years when you're absorbing everything from language to physical interaction and movement like a sponge. Does that mean I want an electronic doo-dad complementing me by telling me I have the brain of a 2 year old?! I think not. So why should I be admonished by having the game tell me my mind is that of a 40 year old? My boss is 40 and I'd give my right arm to have his sharpness of mind! I think people get brighter with time, not dumber. So long as they have a job that requires them to be cerebral. And if I completely blow a test (probably because it just doesn't understand what I'm saying or writing!) it tells me I have the brain of a 70 year old. A spry-minded 70 year old would have every right to be offended!

On the plus side, the Sudoku game is great. The only numbers it'll have issues with are 4's and 9's, which you eventually can get the hang of... and you have to write your 7's from the top down or it thinks it's a 1. If you try writing a 1 from the bottom up, it doesn't think it's anything. Maybe I shouldn't have been huffing paste in the back of the class when they did the whole penmanship thing... but I have never been criticized for having illegible writing, so I don't think these are issues that only I might be experiencing. Maybe they are... but just be aware that there's at least a chance that this thing just won't jive well with your accent or handwriting, which will make the game virtually useless. But yeah, once I mastered the numbers, Sudoku is very fun. And the games that don't involve writing or just involve writing numbers do the job, as well (annoying, but in that good, mentally-challenging kind of way, as opposed to annoying in the "i know the answer but you're just not understanding me!" kind of way)

I haven't tried the sequel yet... hopefully they've addressed some of these problems. But I'll be sure to try it on someone else's system before I sink $20 into a game I can't even play!

Fun but not without flaws

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Brain Age is not your typical game. It's basically daily exercises designed to "train" your brain. There are math problems. There Reading games. There is a memory game where a list of words is shown and you have a couple of minutes to study and then you have a limited ammount of time in order to write down as many words as you can remember. The gameplay is daily training exercises followed by a brain age check. You can only record your brain age and score your training exercises once per day so gameplay is limited. You can replay the exercises but you can only record yout score once per day. I have had this game for about a week and I em enjoying it. It does have its flaws. Voice recognition and writing recognition can be problematic at times. The word blue is a common problem. People cannot get the game to recognize it if it's pronounced the common way of BLOO. If you say the word more like blew with an emphasis on the eww, it will recognize it 9 times out of 10. When writing, try to write all in caps. You have to practice at it, but you'll get the hang of the writing style in no time. Even writing numbers can be a problem. I've written a 9 and the game thought I wrote a 4. If you practice you can overcome these minor annoyances. This is the type of game that will appeal to a whole new audience for Nintendo. I think this game is a must own. At $20 , it's a great value.

Better dust off my brain and oil up the gears in there too. Lol

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I orginally purchased Big Brain Academy but it's nothing compared to Brain Age. I practically spend at least 5-10 minutes playing it daily and before I used to be very weak and slow at my Math but now I can get to at least Car Speed and if I really do my best ... Jet speed. So you actually learn something playing this game and I don't think it'll be a game that parents would be upset about if their kids spent hours playing it. I do admit some of the tests they give you are very hard like the one where you got to memorize like 20+ words in 2 minutes and write each word you memorized down. There's also the one where you gotta count how many people are inside a house and people come and people go so it screws up your count really bad. I'm trying to learn how to play Sudoku bcuz I really don't know how to play that. But overall this game is FAR better than Big Brain Academy. But both is overall good thinking games.

Great for Grown ups!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We bought this for our 4th grade son, but mom and dad use it every day.
PRO: It's a great way to improve your brain which turns to mush when you have kids.
CONS: You need to be able to read and do math so young kids can't play.

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