Train your brain
Title: “Brain Age: Train Your Brain”
System: Nintendo DS
Grade: A
Throughout the years, Nintendo has slowly evolved into a diversified gaming company. Nintendo is beginning to create games for every age level, although “games” may not be the correct word.
Nintendo has tried a new tactic to get average people to use their gaming systems; thus “Brain Age: Train Your Brain” was born. The unconventional “video game” does more than just provide entertainment; it enhances reflexes and strengthens and increases the brain.
Brain guru, Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, designed the program to put players through a series of brain exercises that are designed to strengthen the Prefrontal Cortex, the brain’s main control area. The exercises and mini games are quite simple in design, but it can be incredibly difficult to finish an exercise.
The program also puts players through a series of exercises to get the approximate brain age of the player. The brain age tells players at what level their brain works, compared to what it should be.
Although it may not be a typical game people have come to grow and love from Nintendo, it is a new concept and is sure to draw a larger crowd of gamers and nongamers who want to break a good mental sweat.