# Has anyone tried Nintendo's Brain Age? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 24, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-nintendos-brain-age/362010 "2006-06-24T20:43:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-nintendos-brain-age/362010/1 "2006-06-24T20:43:59Z")
Was it fun? Did you feel like you got all those geat benefits they promise? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-nintendos-brain-age/362010/2 "2006-06-24T21:27:05Z")
Um. What is it? Do I want it? ---
**Author:** ![generica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@generica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/generica)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-nintendos-brain-age/362010/3 "2006-06-24T21:57:54Z")
My roommate brought it home from E3, and I’ve been playing it ever since. I don’t know that it improved my memory (and believe me, it could use improving), but it certainly is satisfying to chart my progress on the games and puzzles. I’ve unlocked all the different games now (I think it’s either 20 or 30 days of playing unlocks it all) and I like playing them every day or two and seeing if I can beat my previous scores. The game supports up to four players on each cartridge, and it ranks all the players so you can try to beat your friends’ scores as well. It also has Sudoku, which I never really understood before - now I’m hopelessly addicted. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-nintendos-brain-age/362010/4 "2006-06-24T22:02:42Z")
Ah. That game! I’ve played it. It’s good. Me likey. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-nintendos-brain-age/362010/5 "2006-06-25T02:49:15Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Um. What is it? Do I want it? [/QUOTE] [From here](http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=Y9QLGBWxkmRRzsQEQtvqGqZ63_CjS_9F): > [@](#): > > Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS is a fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy, as it helps players flex their mental muscles. Brain Age is inspired by the research of Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. His studies evaluated the impact of performing certain reading and mathematic exercises to help stimulate the brain. > > Brain Age presents quick mental activities that help keep your DS brain in shape. Activities include quickly solving simple math problems, counting people going in and out of a house simultaneously, drawing pictures on the Touch Screen, reading classic literature out loud, and more. You can also play sudoku, the number puzzle game which has become an extremely popular feature in U.S. newspapers. > > 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”. By performing daily exercises just minutes a day over weeks and months, the better you’ll get at the exercises and the lower your DS Brain Age will become.