In the past, I have heard many things about how good video games are for you. I’ve heard that they help with hand-eye coordination and can even help increase knowledge. Of course, I never understood how, in anyway, it could really help. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day has become the first game that I have played that actually made my mind feel like it was working.
My brain had a series of mini-games and mathematical problems that made me focus hard on my DS screen, as well as actually think. Now, if this game makes you smarter or not isn’t really something I can confirm, but I will admit that after playing Brain Age, I can now add and subtract small numbers without using my fingers.
Brain Age can be summed up as Hooked on Phonics that all ages can enjoy. The entire idea of Brain Age is for you to activate your prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that tells you how to apply what you know. Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, who wrote the book Train Your Brain, is responsible for making Brain Age possible. As your brain grows older, it starts to decrease in functionality. The more mature you get, the more you tend to forget things, or the more you have trouble finding out what exactly to say. By playing Brain Age, you can help exercise your brain and prevent things like this from happening to you. By training your brain with Brain Age, you can help prevent a decrease in brain function.
You are given a series of mathematical problems to solve and some selections to read to train your brain. You can easily remember the times tables by using this game, as well as remembering simple addition and subtraction problems, such as 13-7 and 2+15.
Judging by the two math problems I just gave you, you may be thinking that this game is very simple. For some, basic math problems are nothing, but to others — like myself — who do not remember their times tables all too well, this can get a tiny bit tricky. The game isn’t all that difficult, but it did take me about five or six seconds for some math problems to process in my brain.
Article comments
1 - Ken Edwards
Don't forget it costs $20!
And that "blue" problem really is irritating.
Solid review.
2 - Kevin Cortez
Heh, forgot to mention it was at a budget price.
Thanks Ken!
3 - pn
found that i had to almost whisper words to get much higher accuracy. love how new games and new modes of old games are introduced over time.
4 - Ken Edwards
I have also found that "brew" works. It is finicky however. One day it works one way, the next, not so much.
5 - KingKRool
...Engrish...
6 - Ken Edwards
Yes, Engrish, which is such a wonderful site.
7 - Ken Edwards
Gee, Ace_Heart, you don't work for Agogus.com do you?
8 - missy
what is triangle math???? I can't figure it out from what the games says...calculate adjacent numbers using the symbols between them???....looking for a site to teach me and also asking the teens in the family since some math problems are solved in uniquely different ways than when I was in school.