What is Brain Age?
Exercise Your Brain
Exercise is the key to good health, both for body and mind - and now there's finally a way to make mental exercise simple, fun, even competitive. Inspired by the work of prominent Japanese neuroscientist Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, the Brain Age games feature activities designed to help stimulate your brain and give it the workout it needs like solving simple math problems, counting currency, drawing pictures on the Nintendo DS touch screen, and unscrambling letters.
Best of all, you don't have to know how to play the original Brain Age to enjoy Brain Age 2. You can start training with either title!
The Nintendo DS
You'll need the Nintendo DS handheld game system to play Brain Age. The Nintendo DS is available wherever video games and most home entertainment products are sold. The DS and Brain Age are sold separately.
With the Nintendo DS handheld game system, playing Brain Age is easy! The touch screen lets users write their answers with a Stylus pen, as if they were writing on paper or using a Personal Digital Assistant or "PDA." And, with Nintendo DS's voice recognition technology, Brain Age can identify particular words you'll speak during certain activities. Want to see the DS in action? Check out our tutorial. Click here.
The first time you play Brain Age, you'll take a series of tests and get a score that determines your DS brain age. Brain Age tracks your progression with easy-to-read line charts so you always know how well you're doing. By using Brain Age just minutes a day, the better you'll get at the exercises and the lower your DS Brain Age will become.
Got a friend or family member who wants to train with you?
No problem. Brain Age has four profile slots friends and family can use to compare results. Nothing like a little competition!
Speaking of competition, up to 16 people can compete in speed calculation games using a single Game Card. All they need is their own Nintendo DS.
Baby Boomers and test-prepping school kids alike want to challenge themselves and find ways to stay sharp. Brain Age acts like a treadmill for the mind. Brain Age's challenging and rewarding exercises give your brain the workout it craves!
