Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!

2005 puzzle video game by Nintendo

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YEAR 2005

GENRE Puzzle

PLATFORM Wii U, Nintendo DS

ABOUT THE GAME

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!, known as Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? in the PAL regions, is a 2005 edutainment puzzle video game by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It is inspired by the work of Japanese neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima, who appears as a caricature of himself guiding the player. Brain Age features a variety of puzzles, including Stroop tests, mathematical questions, and Sudoku puzzles, all designed to help keep certain parts of the brain active. It was released as part of the Touch! Generations series of video games, a series which features some games for a more casual gaming audience. Brain Age uses the touch screen and microphone for many of its puzzles. It has received both commercial and critical success, selling 19.01 million copies worldwide (as of September 30, 2015) and has received multiple awards for its quality and innovation. There has been controversy over the game's scientific effectiveness, as the game was intended to be played solely for entertainment. The game was later released on the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U in Japan in mid-2014. It was followed by a sequel titled Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!, and was later followed by two redesigns and Brain Age Express for the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare service which uses popular puzzles from these titles as well as several new puzzles, and Brain Age: Concentration Training for Nintendo 3DS. The latest installment in the series, Dr Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch, for the Nintendo Switch, was first released in Japan on December 27, 2019.

Source: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 — Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! · retrieved October 19, 2026

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