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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 405
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: NTRPAG3E
Model: NTRPAG3E
UPC: 454967392560
EAN: 0045496739256
ASIN: B000TTZMCS
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Condition: BRAND NEW - Factory Sealed product - will ship out to you FIRST CLASS in a padded mailer quickly - thank you very much !!
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 Fun game which improves your eyes! February 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this game because I had tried it on a friends nintendo ds. Basically there are series of exercises in which you try to improve your vision. You do any 4 of these in one day and then can monitor your eye age as you progress. I really enjoy the sports games on this. I do feel like my visuals have improved after playing this. I would recommend to anyone who has played brain age or related games, this game is similar in idea. Its fun and you can play for about 10 minutes everyday which works well for me.
 Mediocre Passtime February 9, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I purchased Flash Focus about a month ago and have moderately enjoyed playing it. It seems very geared toward athletic types (of which I am not) and is definitely not the same as the other "exercise your mind" game that Nintendo has.
I do enjoy playing it, not as much as Brain Age 1 & 2, but enough. I give it three stars only because as a non-sports person, I think it could have more activities that aren't so sports related.
 Purchased for my 79 yr old mother February 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
On a whim - bought the Nintendo DS Lite for my parents - late 70's. When deciding on "games" for them - I came across Flash Focus and figured - 'why not'
Dad is amused by it - but Mom does her vision 'exercises' every day. It really does work to help fine tune the various aspects of vision. Mom keeps a log of her work and progress and there has been a significant change after only two months.
Highly recommend - not only enjoyable - but beneficial too.
Variety - Stays Interesting Longer than Brain Age! February 3, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is only one of two pieces of software I've played so far on my new Nintendo DS Lite, but I'm totally hooked. The first was Brain Age and while I enjoy that, I think this has more variety. I'm not a gamer, so perhaps my descriptions will help those who are novices to Nintendo DS. It's been a while - my last game was an Atari.
Update 10 months later: I've now had my Nintendo DS Lite for 10 months and not to knock Brain Age/Brain Age 2, but they haven't held my interest or remained as much fun as Flash Focus. There are more games and most of them remain somewhat challenging. I don't know if using Flash Focus truly improves your vision, but I will say it's given me increased awareness of how the various aspect of my vision deteriorate when I'm fatigued. This is my favorite of all my games!
There are 10 "core training" exercises to test your various types of vision, which are varied and challenging. You get 10 attempts or segments to each of the 10 exercises. You start out at the slowest, (skill) Level 1. If you respond correctly, you will advance to the next Level, which increases the difficulty. If you respond incorrectly, it will often return you to the prior Level. Since there are 10 sections/attempts, the highest Level is 10. The first time you take each training exercise each day, the game records your results and then graphs them in subsequent days. While you can take do the exercise more than one time a day, it will only record your results the first time. When your final results reach a certain level, you will be offered a "Hard" version to go with the "Normal" level of difficulty to choose from for that exercise. "Normal" and "Hard" results are tallied separately for the first attempt at either level exercise each day. (Correction entered 3/22 - only one score is recorded each day - either Normal or Hard)
Only a few training exercises are available initially. Every few days you play, you get another training exercise until they're all available.
What makes the this game even more fun is the 7 types of "sports training" exercises. Like the core training exercises, the game records the results of your training exercise and graphs them in subsequent days. As with the core training exercises, you start out with just a few and an additional game is made available every few days. You're also given a "Hard" level version of each of the sports after you've mastered the most difficult level - or after you've "trained" with Flash Focus for a certain number of times.
You are given the opportunity to take an Eye Age Check each day, which is recommended regularly. It's been interesting to see how my Eye Age changes, particularly that it seems to deteriorate when I'm tired. These start out at a much higher level than the training exercises and are pretty challenging - at least for me.
Each day, you are given "Today's Training Recommendations", which consists of 4 games - either core or sports training - or a combination of each. Instead of having 10 segments for each exercise, you have 5 and the difficulty level is determined by the results of your last Eye Age Check. I've found this to be very challenging and difficult, as they start out far faster than the core and sports training exercises.
What I've really enjoyed is the "Record Challenge" available under "Other" that becomes available after something like 15 days of playing. Instead of having a pre-determined length of each sports exercise game, you play until you make a mistake and then the game ends. The system records your top 3 results, so you're essentially competing against yourself.
As another reviewer mentioned, the "canned" phrases and comments get a bit tiresome after a while, but that's a very minor issue.
Overall, I've very much enjoyed both the fun of the sporting games and the challenges they and the core exercises present. I've found this to be quite addictive and it's been a great source of fun to keep me entertained during the winter. The best part is I don't have to feel guilty - I'm training!!
Love it! January 25, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a senior citizen, I am concerned about retaining my "quick vision," memory, etc. Flas Focus is a fabulous tool in exercise for the eyes, and in my opinion, also helps in maintaining our alertness. I felt reluctant to get it as I thought of it as a "kid" game, but I did get it, and I really enjoy it. It is helping to improve my alertness. "If we don't use it, we lose it!"
I will be buying more of these exercises, games, etc. for my Nintendo DS!
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