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In the game Brain Age - play is reading, writing and arithmetic. No guns, no zombies, it's just you playing against yourself. The puzzles are timed. The game calculates your speed and accuracy and then it tells you how old your brain is. The theory is that the brain of a twenty year old is the most fertile and desirable.
The connect maze offers an eye watering connect the dots puzzle. I excelled at reading out loud and syllable count. It took me a while to get my math scores up there. Random numbers float across the screen and try to trick you into giving the wrong answer to the questions. Head count challenges you to keep track of how many stick figures are moving in and out of a house. Even a neighborhood busy body that watches everyone's houses would find this game to be no easy task. At times the Professor will ask you to draw something. The pictures he chooses aren't simple. Draw an armadillo, a fire truck or a hippo. Oh - kay.
Other games like Big Brain Academy have appeared with several more to come before the holidays. Big Brain Academy is a more colorful. It asks you rather strange questions. In one game there are several animals on balance scales and you are asked which ones weigh more. You are expected to figure out if two frogs weigh more than a monkey, and other weird puzzles like it. In another mini game you need to pair up ice cream sundaes with their matching shadows. Ah Nintendo, gotta love it. All this is making me "smarter". Thanks. I think.
Experts as well as gamers have pounced upon these out there titles, touting them to be a cure all for everything from Alzheimer's to drug abuse. Keeping your prefrontal cortex busy and working the gray cells can improve your concentration. The beginnings of language training games will be coming soon. So far only Japanese to English language training has been developed for the DS. What's my Brain Age? I am not ashamed to say my average is 22.
Brain games are a little bit like yogurt was in the '70's. Quirky but good for you.
| Once I started to play Brain Age for the Nintendo DS, I couldn't stop. What is it about simple things that can be so challenging? | ||
Other games like Big Brain Academy have appeared with several more to come before the holidays. Big Brain Academy is a more colorful. It asks you rather strange questions. In one game there are several animals on balance scales and you are asked which ones weigh more. You are expected to figure out if two frogs weigh more than a monkey, and other weird puzzles like it. In another mini game you need to pair up ice cream sundaes with their matching shadows. Ah Nintendo, gotta love it. All this is making me "smarter". Thanks. I think.
Experts as well as gamers have pounced upon these out there titles, touting them to be a cure all for everything from Alzheimer's to drug abuse. Keeping your prefrontal cortex busy and working the gray cells can improve your concentration. The beginnings of language training games will be coming soon. So far only Japanese to English language training has been developed for the DS. What's my Brain Age? I am not ashamed to say my average is 22.
Brain games are a little bit like yogurt was in the '70's. Quirky but good for you.
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