Video Games for the Brain

I do not play video games. I'm not a player. So when I was invited to try the new Brain Age ™ for Nintendo was questionable. It will be frustrating for me?

After decades of exercising inches players', Nintendo is moving to their minds. ™ Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS ™ will help players to show their mental muscles. Brain Age is the first in a series of U.S. brain-training titles that already have taken Japan by storm.

Exercise of the brain has been a hot topic lately. Baby Boomers and test-dressing kids in school want to see themselves as a challenge. Indeed, a recent article in Time Magazine cited Brain Age in its exploration of the trend of people looking for ways to engage their brains.

But Baby Boomers picking up a video game system? It's not as crazy as you might think. Three separate titles in the series of training of the brain is currently a huge craze in Japan. Each of them has achieved a turnover of over 1 million units, with the most recent title hitting that milestone in less than a month. The mania was fueled largely by older players, many of whom had never played a game before the video.

Brain Age (known as Brain Training in Japan) was inspired by the work of Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a neuroscientist Japanese leaders. His studies evaluated the effect of reading and mathematics perform exercises to help stimulate the brain.

Young or old, everyone looks the way to gain a mental advantage, "said Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing." Our series of brain training, led by Brain Age, builds on the popularity of words and number puzzles and acts like a treadmill for the mind. "

Brain Age presents players with a series of fun mental challenges of Brain Training, which incorporate the word memorization, counting and reading. It also includes a game of Sudoku, which have become extremely popular features in newspapers around the country. The function of the Nintendo DS touch screen allows users to write their answers as if you were using a PDA. Tour players, also the Nintendo DS hand to make him feel more familiar, like a book. The more often users challenge themselves, become more mission and to lower their estimated DS "brain age".

Nintendo Brain Training series of games represent a cornerstone of Nintendo's aim to expand the world of gaming to a new audience. The title of the second series, Big Brain Academy (known as Brain Flex in Japan) offers players 15 fun activities that test their powers in brain areas like logic, memory, math and analysis. Up to eight people can play with one game card, and each activity takes less than a minute.

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is rated E for everyone and launched April 17, 2007. Big Brain Academy is Rated E for Everyone and launched 30 May 2007.