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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $10.00
You Save: $9.99 (50%)
New (40) Used (34) from $10.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  291 reviews
Sales Rank: 100
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: ntr p ande
Model: 45496737122
UPC: 045496737122
EAN: 0045496737122
ASIN: B000EGELP0
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: used but in mint condition. comes with case and booklet
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Scissor... Sciiissssoooorrr... SCISSOR May 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Voice recognition in this game needs some work. Kind of bums your score when it doesn't recognize you voice... on ONE word. My voice isn't really all that high either.... my boyfriend had no trouble. He has a really deep voice.
Aside from that... this game is just OKAY at most. I'd say try out Big Brain Academy.
 Clever May 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
* It improved my concentration, my speed and my decision making.
* It provides a loooong list of sudoku puzzles that I love.
* It challenges you to improve your brain(?).
* Great for the elderly, and fun.
* Not for children.
 Ok to keep you sharp, but frustrating to use May 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The premise is great and some of the features really are enjoyable to use. The software has you run through various memory, observation, mathematical and verbal exercises to stimulate your brain. It scores you based on the time it takes you to complete specific exercises as well as correctness. In many ways its great and fun.
However, there are a few annoyances that grind on you within a few days. The comical inventor that talks to you gets to be a drag after a while, with the same phrases and nonsense.... yes, I know, it stimulates your prefrontal cortex. Enough already. There really should be a way to turn some of those repetitive screens off, once you have seen them for the 50th time. Sheesh.
Another issue I have is the handwriting recognition. The game has you write the answers to basic math questions on the touch screen and uses handwriting recognition to interpret what you wrote. The problems arise when you write numbers differently than the software wants. If you write a 7 with a horizontal line through the middle, be prepared for the game to recognize the seven early and then read that line as a 1. Half the time it doesn't like my 4s because of the spacing between some of the lines. So you have to learn to write like Nintendo wants you to, which slows you down and can frustrate... and thus screws up your score totally.
For some reason, in one of the verbal exercises, every once in a while, the software cannot understand what I'm saying when I say blue. It will get me saying blue correctly several times and suddenly it just doesn't get it and makes me repeat it, I say blue again, it says "try again" and I'm speaking to it like a deaf child "BBUUUULLLLUUUUUUU" and finally it takes. So much for todays 'brainage test score' which now has my brain at 89 years of age given it took 5 tries to get the color of the text understood.
The concept is great and it really does make you use your greycells, but some of the recognition issues could have been avoided with more user control over when to evaluate an answer (how about I write a number and then press a DONE button on the bottom?), or adaptive learning so you can teach it to fine-tune some of the character or voice recognition.
In all, its worth the price.
Love it! May 5, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I LOVE this game! It took me a while to actually buy it, I myself being one of the people who thought "educational video games...no way!" But I am SO glad I did. As you play through you unlock more mini-games to train your brain, and other fun things as well! There are tons of sudoko puzzles to play also! You can test your brain age once a day, and the tests are always different and fun. The only negative thing I can say is that my brain age is never steady! Sometimes it will be in the 20's (20 is the lowest and best brain age) and the next day it will be in the 50's! However, that just makes me play it more! The microphone almost always picks up exactly what I am saying, and there are many games that utilize this cool feature. The only bad thing I have to say is that the game seems to have a slower clock than what really exists, and because you can only do each game or brain age check once a day, you can't play them as often. But even so, this game rocks!
Revive your brain! May 2, 2008
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
This is a great way to get your brain sharpened. It is especially great for retirees who need to make their brains as sharp as they were when they were younger. It's fun to play. A great challenge to those grey cells. Keeps you sharp.
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