Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! | 
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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $17.95
You Save: $2.04 (10%)
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Rating:  127 reviews
Sales Rank: 58
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: Puzzle Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: NTRPANME
UPC: 045496739010
EAN: 0045496739010
ASIN: B000QUYHIK
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New in original case, opened by browsing customer. Ships same day in most cases.
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| Features:
| • | New Activities! The title is a series of minigames designed to give your brain a workout. The 17 new, engaging activities are all designed to help work your brain and increase blood flow to the prefrontal cortex. Whether you're playing simple songs on a piano keyboard or monitoring the photo finish of a footrace, you'll love your new mental workout! | | • | Keep training! When you start a new game, you will take a series of tests and get a score that shows how old your brain is. This number is called your Brain Age. With daily training over weeks and months, you can improve your mental acuity and lower your Brain Age. Progress is charted in graph form. | | • | Expanded multiplayer! You can keep up to four save files on one game card. Sharing a game allows you to compete in a picture-drawing quiz or a word challenge with family and friends. You can also use DS Download Play to send a demo to friends or compete with up to 16 players in one of four fun modes. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 122 more reviews...
 Great review November 20, 2008
I must say the game is very engaging. I started using it about a month ago; as you play, the more stamps you acquire on the calendar page the more training modes you unlock. It's very entertaining and some of the tips were new to me. Try it out!
Love this FUN brain challenging game November 4, 2008
This is one of the best brain games. It gets harder and harder the longer you play and the younger your brain age gets. I especially love the piano play along.
I hate to say I started out as an 80 yr old YIKES. Now after a week I test at 47yr old. And the tests are harder than at the start so you really can see you make progress. There is a little racing man that you have to track with your eyes and tell what place he comes in and others pass him and he passes them. I do terrible at that but it is a good eye training test.
At 52 I realized I needed to do more to keep my mind active and doing these games is a great way to do that and have fun at the same time.
I highly recommend the Nintendo DS and all the brain games.
 Harder than original Brain Age, a work out for your brain! October 30, 2008
Brain Age 2 has many interesting and challenging games, although some can be hard, especially for very young kids.
Brain Age starts out by calculating your brain age through a series of tests, one of which is Rock, Paper, Scissors but it adds a twist. It asks you to win or lose which can make it quite challenging if you're not concentrating. There are other tests to test your brain age as well which are non-verbal like pick the biggest number on a screen full of numbers, repeatedly subtracting a smaller number from a bigger number, memorizing number placement in an equation to write in the total. After the testing your brain age is calculated - closer to 20 is better.
You can then try the daily activities to improve your brain age. Some are easy and others quite hard. Here is a list of some:
-Word Scramble where you have to unscramble letters to make a word, medium difficulty
- Change maker, giving back change from a total, easy
- Memory Sprint, keeping track of how many runners passed a runner, medium difficulty
- Piano Player, playing notes on a simulated keyboard with the stylus, easy
- Sign finder, you get a simple equation and have to determine what sign goes in between, easy but you need to be quick
- Word Blend, 2-4 words are spoken together by different voices and you have to write them down, hard - this game is ok till there are only 2 voices speaking but with 4 voices it's almost impossible to figure out what they're saying
- Calendar count - You're asked questions like "What will be the day 3 days before 5 days from now?"
There are some other games that get unlocked as you keep playing. However, I don't play daily and each time I pick it up after a gap I seem to be stuck at the same level I was the last time so I have not been able to unlock any more games.
I've also played Big Brain Academy and it is a little less challenging, a little more diverse and colorful and therefore more fun than this game. I like Brain Age 2 but sometimes because of the "strict" instructor who chides you when you've been remiss, black and white colors and games that require good concentration it seems more like work than just plain fun. So I don't play it very often.
Overall it really tests your brain with interesting activities and I rank it highly as one of the best brain games available on the DS.
 Not impressed October 21, 2008
I loved the first edition of this game. I ordered this with better expectations, I guess I am over the Brain Age fascination. I would have been happier if I purchased a different game. It is not much different than the first and only has a few more mini games than the first. Not much to rave about.
More of the good stuff October 21, 2008
Those who have played Brain Age before, Brain Age 2 offers even more fun trainings that aren't just repetition of the previous version in disguise. Brain Age 2 has a better stylus and voice recognition system which is a welcoming improvement (no more screaming at the DS shouting *blue*). There are plenty of variety in minigames this time to keep you entertained.
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