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Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day

Also known as: Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old is Your Brain? [UK]

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Not technically a game, but its daily brain teasers are every bit as maddening, insulting and enticing as any puzzler out there.

Available on: DS
Genre: Family
Release date: Apr 17, 2006
Published by: Nintendo
Developed by: Nintendo

Features: Game sharing
Multiplayer Modes:

Offline

16 player VS

8 GREAT
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Latest Screenshots

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day - Screenshot

Screenshots updated Mar 10, 2006

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Latest Stories

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Cheats from CheatPlanet

Glasses

May 21, 2008

More Sounds

Aug 22, 2006

Even More Pointless Cheating

Aug 22, 2006

Voice Calculation Game

Jul 27, 2006

More Pointless Cheating

Jul 27, 2006

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Features

Top 7... Cutesy Characters We Want to Beat the...

Yeah, they're cute, but they're so damn annoying

Apr 21, 2008

New Year's solutions

Cheats and tips for your new favorite games

Jan 4, 2007

Gaming supermen

Ten maniacally perfect gamers strut their stuff in our collection of life-humbling videos

Aug 7, 2006

It's yoga for your mind

Brain Age localizers flesh out the software's purpose

Mar 31, 2006

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News

Nintendo challenges South African families to get...

El33tonline writes: Nintendo of South Africa is challenging local families to compete in a series of...

News from N4G Jul 10, 2009

Study: DS Brain Training Doesn't Work

A new study at the University of Rennes in France has found that, contrary to Nintendo's claims, DS...

News from N4G Jan 26, 2009

Forbes: Nintendo's Brainy Strategy

Burlingame, Calif. - Brain Age was all the rage in 2006. The collection of mini-games designed to...

News from N4G Oct 8, 2008

Nintendo of Canada's Awesome Shrunken Head...

NextGen Player writes: Every man has a list of health problems they hope don't happen to them during...

News from N4G Sep 29, 2008

New study shows Brain Age makes you a better...

More interesting than the fact that the game does make you smarter, and a less obvious result, is...

News from N4G Sep 25, 2008

Brain Age Boosts Student Math Performance By 50...

A new UK study into the potentially beneficial effects of Nintendo's Brain Training games has found...

News from N4G Sep 25, 2008

'Brain Age' Creator is Freaking Crazy

Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, the man behind the popular Brain Age games for the DS, is a pretty strange...

News from N4G Jan 31, 2008

Kotaku:Nintendo Million Sellers Revealed

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Do brain training games actually work?

Neuro-nerds debate the craze

Jan 11, 2008

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News from N4G Nov 27, 2007

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Review

Blue. Blue. Buh-lue. BLUE!

Dec 21, 2006

You may have heard about the rampant Nintendo DS shortages in Japan. Part of the reason it's in such high demand is this one game - Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day. The everyday mind-stretcher has captivated the entire country, spanning all ages and sucking up non-gamers as well. Now it's your turn. Every day you're supposed to fire up Brain Age and perform a series of quick tests that gauge how old your mind really feels. They start out fairly simple, like basic math problems, ...

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Previews

Prof Kawashima's Brain Training

Boffins form an orderly queue

Mar 15, 2006

Likely to be placed highly in any competition judging the most obscure game title out there, Prof. Kawashima's Brain Training is another of Nintendo's genre-busting DS titles, right up there with Trauma Centre. The Japanese have been going mad for the game, which is based on research from a leading professor of neuroscience at Tohoku University in Japan. Which essentially seems to be that if you use your brain it makes it work better - we hope he didn't spend too long working that one ... » Read Full Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day preview

Brain Age

How old are you, really? Computers don't lie, you know

Mar 10, 2006

Way back in the day, it was Tetris that snuck Nintendo's original, green-and-blacktastic Game Boy into everyone's backpack, briefcase and duffel bag. With so many easily-accessible games landing on the Nintendo DS, it's only a matter of time before the company's latest handheld completely dominates the market. Oh, whats that? There's another pick-up-and-go, brain-teasing title coming that's aimed primarily at video game virgins and adults? Score another mass-market point for Nintendo. Brain ... » Read Full Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day preview

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