Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? for DS

Pros: Great concept, use of DS's features, actually works... maybe
Cons: Some frustration with mic and touchscreen input

Nintendo's DS handheld is a great platform for games, but the unique touchscreen has led developers beyond just button-mashing entertainment. It's hard to classify non-games like Brain Age; is it an application? A tool? An executive toy? Whatever you ...

Pros: Quite good fun, and the game records your progress.
Cons: Dr Kawashima is a little annoying, and the letter recognition program doesn't always work.

As my father recently celebrated his 80th birthday, and is a stroke victim, he receives regular health check ups. At his most recent, he received what for him was shattering news; the doctor fully expects him to be around to celebrate his 90th in 2019. ...

Pros: Entertaining, makes you flex your brain, great fun for families to compare scores and pictures.
Cons: Only four can have profiles, voice and touch screen issues.

How old is your brain? If you’re anything like me, some mornings find you feeling about a thousand years old. So I wasn’t surprised when my first go with Brain Age showed my poor brain at a rather tired 65 years old (I’m 42). ...

Pros: Easy to play, might actually work, and it has Sudoku.
Cons: Touch screen and microphone don’t always pick up the right things, gets boring.

We all have those days where we feel like our mind is in a fog; you forget to bring important things to work, you can’t remember the answers for a big test, or it seems to take you hours to understand a simple concept. Supposedly, Brain Age for ...

Pros: addictive sudoku and other brain bending puzzles
Cons: DS voice regonition and writing regonition programs are not perfect

Ok before I begin I should say this is not a GBA title, there is no way this game could ever be played on the GBA it uses all of the DS special features, microphone, Duel screen, and the touch pad are fully used in this game. Ok I got brain age for ...

Pros: Brain exercises, tons of Sudoku puzzles, decently entertaining, inexpensive
Cons: Can be repetitive, some problems with speech and writing recognition, some irritating exercises

Video games are often given a bad reputation by the media. Articles discuss teen emulation of video game violence. Video games get lumped into the same category as television; a brain-rotting activity that furthers the trend of childhood obesity by ...

Pros: Its easy to use and it may help strengthen your brain.
Cons: Some trouble with the microphone and touchscreen input

Brain Age is one of the few games from Nintendo intended for adults. Developed by Dr. Ryuta Kawashi, a doctor of neuroscience, it uses simple exercises in reading, writing, and arithmetic to help strengthen your brain. In order to play the game you ...

Pros: Easy to pick up, unique play
Cons: Gets boring after a few days

I wonder how many of those who call this "fun, fun, fun!" actually played it for more than a couple days, because if they had, they probably would have run out of interest after a week or so. This game claims to improve your brain power (but, alas, it ...

Pros: Inexpensive, uncomplicated, improves brain function.
Cons: I would like there to be more activities for continual variety.

My 8 year old daughter and I are truly enjoying this DS game. It consists of 14 simple cognitive activities such as basic addition, subtraction and multiplication, reading passages aloud, counting syllables, memorizing word lists, drawing pictures from ...

Pros: Entertainment value, ability to improve scores, wide variety of choices.
Cons: Sudoku's limitations and voice recognition problems.

I have enjoyed playing this game on many occasions. My husband bought it, thinking that it would help me strengthen my memory, and his! I don't know if it has improved my memory or not, but it has provided hours of entertainment, especially when I am ...

Pros: quick and easy to use, addictive
Cons: voice recognition is off, could use more training games, fix the touch pad

I purchased this game about 3 months ago, and have done my training every single day since then. Brain Age is a very simple to use game that consists of mini "brain games" to help "activate your prefrontal cortex". You begin by taking the "brain age ...

Pros: It definitely increases the "brain age"
Cons: It is a video game.

This game was one of the many Christmas gifts that was given to my 8 year old boy this year by good ole St. Nick. We both love it! He likes it because it is very fun for him to see what his "brain age" is. He thinks it is funny to see it going lower ...

Pros: Great game for most ages to help keep your brain sharp
Cons: None that I can think of

This game is great for older kids (probably age 10 and up) as well as adults of all ages. Parts of the game require reading and basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication, so the age a kid is ready for this game depends on if they already have these ...

Pros: fun. challenging. neverending.
Cons: microphone.

I purchased the DS and Brain Age for my wife who loves strategy games. We are both addicted to it and play it every day. The games are simple yet challenging and provides hours of fun. I've been playing if for a couple months now and I can't really say ...

Pros: Fun and quick way to give your mind a much needed workout.
Cons: The microphone doesn't always pick up,stylus doesn't always register the correct number.

The first time I played Brain Age I was dismayed to learn that I had a brain age of 88. (I am 35.) That little tidbit was enough to convince me to try out this game for a teensy bit longer. In literally minutes a day I was able to bring my brain age to ...