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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | Hot on the heels of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!, the brain training phenomena grows with Brain Age 2! Seventeen all new, engaging activities designed to help work your brain and increase blood flow to the prefrontal cortex. Whether you're playing simple songs on a piano keyboard or monitoring the photo finish of a footrace, you'll love your new mental workout! Features - 17 brand-new activities
- Keep training: Up to four save files keep track of your improvement
- Expanded multiplayer: Compete with family and friends
What is Brain Age? Brain Age acts like a treadmill for the mind! Brain Age 2: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS is a fun, rewarding game that helps you flex your mental muscles with quick activities that help keep your brain in shape. Brain Age is inspired by the research of Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. His studies evaluated the impact of performing certain reading and mathematic exercises to help stimulate the brain. On your first day of exercise, you will take a series of tests and get a score that determines how old your brain is. This number is called your DS Brain Age. Perform daily exercises just minutes a day over weeks and months to get better at the exercises and lower your DS Brain Age!
Why is brain training good for you? We all know as we grow older our bodies change and it becomes important to regularly exercise to maintain health and fitness. Our brain is no different. That's where Brain Age comes in. Dr. Elizabeth Zelinski, dean and executive director of University of Southern California's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, says games like Brain Age can help keep older generations of Americans' minds active. "Americans can do a great deal to maintain and even improve their mental abilities," Zelinski explains. "Aging is about taking on new challenges for our minds. Nintendo's Brain Age is a great way to do that."
How does Brain Age work? The Nintendo DS Touch Screen lets you write your answers with a stylus, just as though you were writing on paper. Plus, the Nintendo DS's voice input identifies particular words you'll speak during games like the Stroop Test. Brain Age tracks your progression through each exercise with easy-to-read line charts. Use Brain Age each day to open new exercises to test your ability. Brain Age includes a fun calculation competition for friends and family—it's a snap to download this minigame to as many as 15 DS systems using only one Brain Age 2 game card! Challenge yourself and find ways to stay sharp. With the simplicity of the Nintendo DS, and Brain Age's challenging and rewarding exercises, baby boomers and test-prepping kids alike can stimulate their brains! | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 0.0 inches | | Product Width: | 0.0 inches | | Product Height: | 0.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.22 pounds | | Package Length: | 5.4 inches | | Package Width: | 4.9 inches | | Package Height: | 0.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.2 pounds | | Release Date: | August 20, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 122 reviews |
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| | Game Information | | Platform: | Nintendo DS | | Media: | Video Game | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | Features | New Activities! The title is a series of minigames designed to give your brain a workout. The 17 new, engaging activities are all designed to help work your brain and increase blood flow to the prefrontal cortex. Whether you're playing simple songs on a piano keyboard or monitoring the photo finish of a footrace, you'll love your new mental workout!Keep training! When you start a new game, you will take a series of tests and get a score that shows how old your brain is. This number is called your Brain Age. With daily training over weeks and months, you can improve your mental acuity and lower your Brain Age. Progress is charted in graph form.Expanded multiplayer! You can keep up to four save files on one game card. Sharing a game allows you to compete in a picture-drawing quiz or a word challenge with family and friends. You can also use DS Download Play to send a demo to friends or compete with up to 16 players in one of four fun modes.
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 "When you enjoy yourself, your brain may experience positive effects"--Dr. Kawashima Oct 09, 2008
As Dr. Kawashima says in one of his brain tips, "Your brain's greatest enemy is a daily routine." Well, if Brain Age 1 has become a daily routine, try your hand (or mind) at Brain Age 2 and you better be prepared to work your brain even harder than before! This game was much more challenging to me than the first Brain Age which probably means it is better for exercising the brain; however, it made it less fun for me and I didn't keep up with it for as long as I did the original Brain Age.
The game is the same format. The same head of Dr. Kawashima, the same music (albeit a little jazzier), and graphic style. Right from the start, the game is more challenging. The initial brain age test is rock, paper, scissors. You get a graphic and it asks you to win or lose. This was much more difficult than reading a word from Brain Age 1. You have to consider two choices and then factor in winning or losing. You do not have a choice when re-testing your brain. It's rock, paper, scissors, repeatedly subtracting a number, and memorizing number placements (much more difficult than memorizing words from the first brain age).
The daily training games are also more difficult. In "Sign Finder," you get a math problem with the answer and have to put in the sign (multiplication, subtraction, etc.). "Piano Player" is a cute game. You have to hit the right note to the music. I'm not sure how it scores this game as I always get a high score even when I don't think I did very well. It my favorite training game. "Word Scramble", to me, is terribly hard. It has letters floating in a circle and you have to figure out the word they make. As it gets more difficult, I often have to pass in frustration. "Memory Sprint" is like "Head Count" from the previous game, but you have to keep track of a runner and who he passes and is passed by to know what place he finishes in the race.
"Change Maker" is just that. You're given an amount something costs and the amount the customer gives you and you give them change. Years in retail made me pretty good at this game. "Word Blend" is where my frustration reached its boiling point. Computer voices say several different words at the same time. You have to distinguish what the different words are. This game is almost impossible for me, especially the three word level. It does add a new dimension to Brain Age--being able to hear voices through the D.S.--but yuck! "Calendar Count" asks questions like, "What day will it be the day after today?" and you write the date (be sure the calendar setting on your DS is correct). "Number Memory" has you answering simple math problems by using one of the numbers of the previous problem in the next, only erased (you need to remember it to answer the problem). I liked this game.
There are other daily training games I never got to. The extra games are kind of cool. One, you get a screen full of dots, visualize an image, and connect the dots. Kawashima then shows you his interpretation which will make your image look pretty stupid (I did get the jack-in-the-box, though). There are also slogans you can create using the letters of words to describe that word. Again, Kawashima will share his example, though I thought some of mine were better. Oh, and you get a bunch of sudoku puzzles with this game, too.
If you are up to a challenge, this game will probably be better than the first Brain Age because it will work your brain more and give you a better indication of your brain age. There is also more variety with more fun graphics than Brain Age 2. I didn't enjoy it mainly because I was so bad at so many of the games it was more work than fun. To use the brain tip I picked as the title of my review, I guess I didn't enjoy myself as much with this game.
 Brain Age 2 game Oct 08, 2008
I haven't played it that much to give a good review but so far everything is fine. The game came with good directions and was shipped quickly and without any problems.
 A good way to spend your time. Sep 23, 2008
I like this game for the following reasons:
-it actually does give your brain a good workout in short bursts
-you can see your progress and compare it to others
-just when you start to get proficient in something the game ups the ante and allows you to select the "hard" option, which unlocks more challenging puzzles
The changes that I would like to make to the game:
-sometimes the screens in between activities can get a little boring to constantly click through. I'd like to just give me a quick tip then on to the next activity.
Overall, I would highly recommend the game. It's always in my DS and I pick it up whenever I'm waiting in a long line, on the train, or in a waiting area for something.
Brain Age 2 Sep 23, 2008
Pretty fun game if you enjoy challenging your mind. Whether or not it has improved my brain function like advertised is unclear. Mostly plays the way it is supposed to although the rules for some of the games could have been made clearer.
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Brain Age 2 is much more challenging Sep 22, 2008
Brain Age 2 is much harder than 1. It's challenging so if you're up for a good one, start with Brain age 2. Brain Age 1 seems like it has more math problems.
I tinker between the two every now and then. My favorite of Brain Age 2 is the keyboard. I hate the clock!
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