Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Nintendo EAN: 0045496737085 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Nintendo Manufacturer: Nintendo Model: 45496737085 Platform: Nintendo DS Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: June 05, 2006 Sales Rank: 267 Studio: Nintendo
Features:
Face an assortment of challenges that you'll have to solve quickly
Special practice mode helps players get used to the game's fast-paced assault of problems
Continuous display of your brain weight, helping you track your progress during a match
8-player Vs. Mode - all players can connect through a single game pak
Product DescriptionBig Brain Academy is a modern-day stress reliever that improves your thinking skills. These 15 activities test your brain powers and improve your thinking abilities in areas like logic, memory, math and analysis. Free your mind by working through a number of simple but deep problems. There are five different types of challenges, appropriate for all ages and challenging for all skill levels.
What Others Say
Fun game, a nice companion to Brain Age 2.
I'm not much of a gamer but enjoy playing the word games and "brain" games on the DS. I bought this game as a gift for my 10 year old but I find I play with it more often than she does. She prefers games like Guitar Hero DS and Pokemon Diamond to this game.
This game makes a great companion to the Brain Age 2 game. Brain Age 2 gives you certain activities like unscrambling words, guess the right mathematical sign, counting change, memory sprint, play a song on keyboard etc. which are designed to activate different areas of your brain. Some are more challenging than others and you unlock more activities as you go further in your training. I would not recommend that game for children under 9 years old as some activities will be too ... Read More
A challenge for your mind!
Over all this is a wonderful game. It gets a little tedious at times and from a psychological stand point it is only good until you learn the game. By this I mean, once you are oriented and able to do the games at an A or B rating you should put it to the side for a while. To keep your brain active and functioning into old age it is best to try novel tasks, so obviously putting it to the side for a few weeks every now and then will help your brain functioning. If that is what you bought it for in the first place.
I still stand by it as a great game, best for the mind in sporadic doses!
Huge potential .. great training and even my kids love it ...
Simply put I have the Brain Age Games and prefer this one as it has 15 total games with 3 levels on each one.
The 5 areas mean you get to see what areas you need more training in and really get some specifics on what you can do to improve your performance.
Test scores can be really varied as you can get a different mix of test types and you will find you are better at some than others.
One annoyance and why it's didn't get a 5 is the 4 to 6 steps they have built in to the end of every single game. If they removed this I would have given it a 5.
Last point, my 5 and 6 year olds love many of the games and are doing great at training their brains.
Not my favorite cartridge
This cartridge is not one of my favorites. The information repeats over and over, and the game-play can become rather boring very quickly. Some of my other cartridges always offer some new and interesting twists all the time and always seem new. This particular cartridge gets real old real fast.
Get a Bigger Brain
I've wanted this game since I first got my DS almost a year ago. It is similar to the Brain Age games, but approaches training in a totally different way. There are 5 areas of your brain to improve, and 3 levels of difficulty per mini-game (about 3 each area) to keep you busy. The games are interesting and unusual, and I'll keep at'em until my brain is really big. The Brain Age games are still faves. Keep in mind this keeps track of your progress and trains your brain in a totally different way. Don't expect BA3, but do expect to have fun.
