What age is your Brain?

[thorbahn3]

I got Brain Age today. My first score was an 80 and my 2nd was 65. What is yours?

[RAMSTORIA]

mine was 40 yesterday, today it jumped to 53, i blame my cat for distracting me

[Apossum]

42 yesterday, 43 today. it aged a year in one night...I think my copy's broken and I want a refund.

[hinkbert]

Mine was 42, but my girlfriend's was 29, which is a year lower than her actual age even. So we shall see what happens tomorrow.

[bluenatas09]

Mine was 73, but I have to say that it misheard the way I said Yellow a couple of times.

But after playing it again I had it down to 35, so I guess all is well.

I'm pretty impressed with the way it reads what you write..I don't have the best handwriting..

[graf1k]

I think I heard the lowest it could be is like 21 or 22, but does anybody know what the highest (i.e. the worst) your brain age can be? I just want to know how embarrassed I should be once I get my DS Lite + Brain Age and score in the 80s.

[Rocko]

Mmm, I'll be trainin' the brain tomorrow. :B

[Staind204]

So you guys feel this game is worth the $20 or is it more of a novelty like Electroplankton (big waste of $$$ for me)?

[botticus]

Just picked mine up for $15 after GGC today, will probably play it some tomorrow. Or maybe just open it up in a few minutes.

[Kendal]

Mine is 46, I am +21 years.

[Apossum]

for everyone getting 20+ years over, did you used to (or currently) party pretty hard? I did, but I haven't smoked weed or tripped in years ;)

[botticus]

Got 54 on the initial test, then 39.

I blame my stupidity for not realizing I had to dot my 'i's in the word memory. Took over a minute for that and then I had forgotten most of the other words :P

[VanillaGorilla]

My brain is old enough to know better than to pay $20 for sudoku puzzles and flash card games :booty:

[botticus]

My brain is old enough to know better than to pay $20 for sudoku puzzles and flash card games :booty:
$15. And an old brain is bad.

[ananag112]

My Brain Age is a perfect 20
I had a 50 the first time I played it though.

[banpeikun]

I went from 37 to 24. I'm not very good at the color word one.

[DomLando]

Mine was 50 and then went to 33.

[bordjon]

mine was initially 30 - and I just turned 30 not quite a month ago so... just got the game tonight though so haven't done it a second time yet.

[vietgurl]

I'll find out how old my brain is tomorrow

[Ikohn4ever]

temptin for 15 if I can find a GGC

[jer7583]

My brain is old enough to know better than to pay $20 for sudoku puzzles and flash card games :booty:

go back to the ps2 board and spend your $20 on the new GTA. That sounds derivative and violent enough to satisfy your short attention span.

My brain age was 60 the first day i got it, the second day down to 44.. I really like this game, good concept of short play sessions over a long period of time. I only play it for at most a half hour, if i get into the sudoku puzzles.

Does anyone else think this game will flop in america, because americans don't care to learn and would rather just play some rap/urban game on the PSP.. I hate popular culture.

[Dr Mario Kart]

Does anyone else think this game will flop in america, because americans don't care to learn and would rather just play some rap/urban game on the PSP.. I hate popular culture.

This would be the case unless they can actually expand the market to non-gamers like in Japan. Of course I dont expect that to happen here in America.

People who own it should be showing it to everyone they know.

DO IT

[jer7583]

My mom played it for a bit when i was home for easter, and i happened to catch her telling my grandmother about it the next day, maybe i've started it all now.. lol.

I have enough dissapointment in the intelligence and patience level of the general american to believe this will never succeed here. I do enjoy it though. I'm just afraid it doesn't have enough "GRILLZ" to hold most people's attention.

[shaunLEGEND]

I first took the test (no talking) and got a 22. Then when I did the test at home where I was able to do the verbal, I got a 65 haha.

[botticus]

This would be the case unless they can actually expand the market to non-gamers like in Japan. Of course I dont expect that to happen here in America.

People who own it should be showing it to everyone they know.

DO IT
One of the cashiers at Best Buy told another she needed to buy it last night. Though whether she is a gamer or not, I couldn't say. So there is at least some interest in the general population.

[thorbahn3]

One of the cashiers at Best Buy told another she needed to buy it last night. Though whether she is a gamer or not, I couldn't say. So there is at least some interest in the general population.

Yeah and the clerks at EBgames were all like "did you play the demo? It is so fun!" (this was after I told them I'm here to pick up my pre-order) Then when one of them rang it up he was shocked it was $19.99 and said he might have to pick it up now. I have a feeling from both the number of replys and the fact that Brain Age demos are out and about that it will do quite nicely.

[BigDirty]

My brain age ranges from 20-25, depending on what metrics I get (or use - hold down the select key while doing the brain age check). However if I have one of the vocal ones, the age goes up dramatically.

I got my copy at GDC, and it has only left my system briefly for Tetris DS and Rub Rabbits.

[ArthurDigbySellers]

Picking it up today. I can't wait to see how old this brain is.

[Droogs]

i just like saying "glasses glasses" at the title screen....that japanese guy makes me laugh when you do that.

[DomLando]

I really like this game. I hope it does well here so we can get more games like this. I doubt it though.

[banpeikun]

I know a couple people (age 35-45) that want a DS now for the game.

[Dr Mario Kart]

after seeing all the places that coverage/advertisements for this are showing up, I'm starting to believe it could work. The Discovery Channel had a short segment on it, NPR did that thing and there are plenty of others.

Edit: Discovery ad - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGMOeYCa_jw

A simple ad next to the in-print Sudoku would probably do wonders. Its strange seeing Nintendo properly advertise something.

Time Magazine: Courtesy of Kotaku:

http://www.kotaku.com/images/2006/04/brainageadvert.jpg

[Rei no Otaku]

My first try my brain was 39. Poor, old brain. It is a fun little game, though I don't find Sudoku as fun as everyone else seems to.

[Rocko]

First score was 71. Then I got a 31. :D

[pimpinc333]

I haven't used my Brain Lately. It tested at a 72. It also misheard the way I say B-L-U-E a couple of times. O well. This game was well worth the 20.00 just to get my brain back in shape. Well time to sleep my Brain hurts from thinking :)

[FFMooglestar]

My results came back pretty poorly as I my brain is aged at 61. I had the same problem with pimpinc333 with the whole Blue ordeal. Pretty entertaining for the $14.99 I paid for my copy.

[JBlade00]

I just got the game and did the exercises for today... I got a 35 which isn't bad. Only thin that frustrated me was that it kept thinking my 6's were 0's... But I figured out how to fix it (you have you do more of a diagonal 6 than a straight 6) so it should be fine from now on.

I guess I enunciate alright because I didn't have any trouble w/ 'blue'

[alongx]

I was 42 on the initial age gauge and then dropped to 27 with the more in-depth test.

[Rocko]

I had to say "bluuuue" to get it to recognize it. It sometime calls my fours nines, but aside that it's great.

[Rei no Otaku]

I have an extremely thick New England accent, and it recognized every word I said perfectly. I wonder why some people are having such trouble with "blue."

[botticus]

I haven't had any problem at all with the voice recognition. Some of my letters are off occasionally, but at least with the word memory it corrects itself (i.e. the word was 'gong', but it interpreted the first 'g' as an 's'. Once I had written all four letters, it changed the 's' to 'g').

I'm horrible with my times tables now, so out of practice. Lots of the 8s and 9s are killing me. But, I managed to lower my brain age to 26 from 54, so I feel better about myself.

That low-to-high game is hard as hell, but good.

[kill3r7]

51 right now. I've been as low as 40.

[JBlade00]

my GF just did it and had issues w/ blue... like the other person said she tried the "bluuuue" (more bass in the voice) and it picked it up fine. Maybe that's why it doesn't work for some people.

[hinkbert]

I had a weird problem with it recognizing "blue" but only when the actually written word was red, it was strange.

[thorbahn3]

I have a ton of trouble with blue. Then I said it with a higher tone and it works so now I say everything normal until I get to blue.

[BlueWingX]

I had the problem with blue as well. Usually only when the word was "Black". Anyway, my initial age was 76, but when I did the non-verbal test I got a 31.

[vietgurl]

I got a 29 on my first try and then I got frustrated on my second try because the DS just wouldn't recognize it when I say "blue". On the words, I struggled with the system recognizing what I was writing and I ran out of time way before I had finished writing down all the words I remembered. Good game though....any way to make it so you can play more than once each day and have it remember your score?

[katsagirl]

i have a brain age of 23 so far.

it was 20 when i first did it but now it's 23.

[katsagirl]

how come on quick play, i can only play calculations? i am also having trouble with saying blue. it's a pain.

[thorbahn3]

I got a 29 on my first try and then I got frustrated on my second try because the DS just wouldn't recognize it when I say "blue". On the words, I struggled with the system recognizing what I was writing and I ran out of time way before I had finished writing down all the words I remembered. Good game though....any way to make it so you can play more than once each day and have it remember your score?

Nope, hence the subtitle "Train your brain in minutes a day."

[ViolentLee]

My wife and I were in the early 50s the first time. Now she's down to 26 and I'm hovering at mid to early 30s. We're both actually in our mid to late 20s.

[gambitmachete]

after seeing all the places that coverage/advertisements for this are showing up, I'm starting to believe it could work. The Discovery Channel had a short segment on it, NPR did that thing and there are plenty of others.

Edit: Discovery ad - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGMOeYCa_jw

A simple ad next to the in-print Sudoku would probably do wonders. Its strange seeing Nintendo properly advertise something.

Time Magazine: Courtesy of Kotaku:


I hope it works, but I just have a hard time imagining parents and other "un-hip" adults in the U.S. playing video games. It would be a hell of an achievement if they could pull it off.

Anyway, I bought Brain Age today and after trying it out on my FUCKING AWESOME WONDERFUL AMAZING ENAMEL NAVY DS LITE which also arrived today, I recieved a score of 44. It had trouble recognizing when I said "blue" and "red," as well as some numbers I wrote. Annoying, but it was only $20 and the sudoku kicks ass. I had never played sudoku before and I'm way addicted now.

[pimpinc333]

My brain Today is 53. Compared to my 72 yesterday I'm doing well :) I found the color game is easier when you focus on something past the DS so when you see the word pop up all you see if the color and not the words. I'm not sure if you can do that but when I see the word "Black" and its "Red" in color I start to laugh a little and it screws with my time.

[botticus]

My brain Today is 53. Compared to my 72 yesterday I'm doing well :) I found the color game is easier when you focus on something past the DS so when you see the word pop up all you see if the color and not the words. I'm not sure if you can do that but when I see the word "Black" and its "Red" in color I start to laugh a little and it screws with my time.
Haha, yeah, I discovered that trick, but it kinda defeats the purpose of the test so I've stopped doing it. Regardless I start to read the word almost half the time, but usually stop myself before I fully speak the first letter. Damn Stroop test. Luckily I kicked ass on the word memory to make up for it.

Those Sudoku penalties are harsh... I've never played it before till Brain Age, so I had no clue what I was really supposed to be doing initially. Took me ten minutes to do the first puzzle, but I had 60 minutes in penalties :shock:

[ArthurDigbySellers]

I have an extremely thick New England accent, and it recognized every word I said perfectly. I wonder why some people are having such trouble with "blue."

Not sure. It has problems with my "black" but if I say it carefully, it works fine. It recognizes all of my handwriting so far though which is crazy since I have some pretty bad chicken scratch. My initial brain age was 63 (yikes!).

After I finished all the training for the day, my wife leaned over and said, "my turn!" This, besides a brief stint with Animal Crossing, is the first DS game she has played.

If Nintendo plays their cards right, this could be huge.

BTW, I bought it at Gamestop yesterday and the way the game is being displayed is interesting. At GS, all of the Brain Age games were in cardboard displays right on the sales counter almost like a impulse buy kind of item at a grocery store. I actually think that is a good idea.

[1modernboy]

my GF just did it and had issues w/ blue... like the other person said she tried the "bluuuue" (more bass in the voice) and it picked it up fine. Maybe that's why it doesn't work for some people.

My wife had the same problem with the voice recognition, but I think she finally solved the problem by pronouncing it like the name of the bear from The Jungle Book.

My Brain Age is currently 54 and I am, in fact, 30. I'm just pleased to have come in under the "twice my fucking age" mark!

[dyreschlock]

i got a 50 on my first run through.. then lowered it to 42.

i feel rather pathetic that the video game thinks i'm dumb :/

[thorbahn3]

Haha, yeah, I discovered that trick, but it kinda defeats the purpose of the test so I've stopped doing it. Regardless I start to read the word almost half the time, but usually stop myself before I fully speak the first letter. Damn Stroop test. Luckily I kicked ass on the word memory to make up for it.

Those Sudoku penalties are harsh... I've never played it before till Brain Age, so I had no clue what I was really supposed to be doing initially. Took me ten minutes to do the first puzzle, but I had 60 minutes in penalties :shock:

You also don't have read aloud or read at all in "Read Aloud" but that sort of defeats the purpose of why you bought the game.

[banpeikun]

I got my first 20 today with my strong showing in the word memory game. 30/30 baby!!

[botticus]

I got my first 20 today with my strong showing in the word memory game. 30/30 baby!!
:shock: And here I was happy I got around 15, considering your short-term memory generally only holds about 7-10 items ;)

[FFMooglestar]

:shock: And here I was happy I got around 15, considering your short-term memory generally only holds about 7-10 items ;)

That is the part that dominates me. Although I've only done it once, I only scored a 9!

[JBlade00]

I haven't tried word memory yet... but I have an idea to make a store w/ the given words... think that will work?

[banpeikun]

what do you mean make a store? like imagine a store that sells all the things?

i think the best way to do it is to try to associate the words together into a kind of thought or sentence or idea. then it's easy to chain them together. like my third column was grin, damp, nine, body, girl, tall, rage, hold.

the dallas mavs have a guy called dampier, so i think of him grinning, then i think of a nine ball except it's nine body (doesn't make sense but that probably makes me remember it more), and then a tall girl who maybe like a girlfriend or something. she makes him mad (rage) but he also cares for her (hold). i also read it out loud constantly while my 2 minutes are counting down. so in the end i can remember grin, damp, nine, body, girl, tall, rage, hold.

i don't have as much time to study the last column so i try to be saying those words when the time runs out so i can fill them in as soon as the 3:00 starts. then i go back and do the first three columns which i (hopefully) can remember with the neumonics. i got stuck for a while because i couldn't remember a single word from the second column, but then it came back to me.

i think it's a pretty good method. i haven't unlocked the game yet so i've only played it twice. my first time this method got me 25.

[JBlade00]

BAH! I meant "STORY" lol! didn't really pay attention to what I was typing :)

[botticus]

Yeah, I tried that my second time, but I was just associating images with the words, which were easier to remember. Worked to help me double my score.

[ViolentLee]

I got my first 20 today with my strong showing in the word memory game. 30/30 baby!!

Very impressive! I absolutely suck at that portion. I tried alphabetizing, only memorizing certain ones, and making up sentences or phrases -- few have worked.

How is everyone at Low to High? That seems to be my strongest event outside of calculations.

Maybe we should start a Brain Age high score thread, where we can all post our high scores in each game and update as we improve -- sort of like the Complete Games Tab 2006 that I update often.

Of course, I'm too lazy to do it right now.... ;)

[Rocko]

35 today. To my credit, it misheard blue three times, so after I got it I uttered a "fuck you" and it registered that and gave me aother "Try Again". :\

[vietgurl]

I just got 23. I got all of the memory words thing except for one...I couldn't get it to recognize the "g" in rage. I finally discovered to draw the circle before I draw the tail but it was too late and I couldn't write the e out in time. I really suck at at the A--1--B---2....thing since I barely know the alphabet (I can't say it backwards and if I want to know what comes after a certain letter, I have to start reciting it from the beginning, lol.)

Time for sudoku.

[Rocko]

I really suck at at the A--1--B---2....thing since I barely know the alphabet (I can't say it backwards and if I want to know what comes after a certain letter, I have to start reciting it from the beginning, lol.)

Same. :'[

[banpeikun]

Very impressive! I absolutely suck at that portion. I tried alphabetizing, only memorizing certain ones, and making up sentences or phrases -- few have worked.

How is everyone at Low to High? That seems to be my strongest event outside of calculations.

Maybe we should start a Brain Age high score thread, where we can all post our high scores in each game and update as we improve -- sort of like the Complete Games Tab 2006 that I update often.

Of course, I'm too lazy to do it right now.... ;)i've gotten 44, 43, and 46 on the low to high. Never gotten the 9 digit one though.

[ViolentLee]

i've gotten 44, 43, and 46 on the low to high. Never gotten the 9 digit one though.

My top 3 are 56, 58, and 59. I've gotten up 12 remembered.

[botticus]

My brain age is back up to 37 today... I blame it on two out of the three games being new to me and actually having a problem saying blue. I think it was a result of my throat being kinda scratchy.

And 32 is my new high on Low-to-High.

And my coworker was interested in this thing, so I'm bringing my DS to work, I'll let some people give it a shot.

[ViolentLee]

Just a note that I finally made a topic for posting all your high scores:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91635

[ArthurDigbySellers]

Low to High is my absolute worst game of them all. I can barely remember the 5 digit ones. They disappear so fucking fast!

[banpeikun]

My top 3 are 56, 58, and 59. I've gotten up 12 remembered.freak

[zman73]

First time was 23 (only because I was having a problem with the DS voice recognizing the word "BLUE") but got it to a perfect 20 the second time

[vietgurl]

Yay, got 20. I really need to learn the alphabet though...that's the only part that always stumps me. I can never remember what comes after J or L so I end up having to recite the entire alphabet in my mind again, lol.

[PleasantOne]

Does anyone else think this game will flop in america, because americans don't care to learn and would rather just play some rap/urban game on the PSP.. I hate popular culture.

If Nintendo continues to come out with more of these types of game, I think it will cause all of them to do better. As it is now, I don't know how many people are going to want to spend $130 on a DS when there might only be one or two titles available to them.

I have a feeling the Japanese find handheld gaming hipper than we do, too... fancypants cell phones and ipods are hip here, but I don't think that extends ot handheld gaming...

I dunno... I hope it goes over well. I love stuff like this :D i opened my copy today finally, and my first try was 44... bah! Looking forward to see if I can get it down a lot lower. I think the math portions will be particularly helpful for me. I don't calculate very quickly. The Sudoku is fun, too... I hadn't tried it before now.

Does anybody know exactly what is entailed in unlocking all the different exercises? I've only unlocked low/high so far, and I've no idea what I did to unlock it!

I wonder if Big Brain Academy is going to be very different from Brain Age? My brain needs all the help it can get :lol:

[banpeikun]

Most of the stuff unlocks from getting enough stamps. You get a new game with one stamp, another one with two stamps, and another at three. Then there's a bit of a lull...

[Over easy]

Got the game today. 25 for my first time when they tested me in the beginning. "Blue" got me stuck for awhile, but it seems to be a bit better now.

[Rei no Otaku]

That word memory is kicking my ass. I'll ace every other test, and then the good doctor has to throw that one at me. My atrocious handwriting doesn't help matters either.

[botticus]

It's a shame you can't pause in some of these games. My fiancee decided to interrupt my word memory babbling about the cats, and I couldn't pause it to attempt to remember all my pneumonic device.s I quit after 4.

[vietgurl]

I think I've mastered the non speaking Brain Age check. I've gotten 20 everyday for the past few days. I'm definately having problems on the speaking one though.

[banpeikun]

My wife got 20 just now and she's totally excited. Even changed her name/signature to "I GOT 20!!!"

[grendel19]

Got a 26 on my initial test, but I had to skip the voice speaking part because my wife in the other room thought I was talking to her...

[hotwls13]

I got 24 last night! I finally went into the other living room away from my wife and kids. Before I was getting like 54 or something. It helps to not have the family chattering in your ear while taking these tests.

I also like the select tip where you can choose which three things to be tested on.

[Fire]

Nope, hence the subtitle "Train your brain in minutes a day."
Wrong! You can change your Ds's clock. 23

[graf1k]

I got 46 the first day, 42 today (second day).

[banpeikun]

i got hard mode of head count yesterday. ridiculously hard.

[lyric706]

I got 21 last night, and my wife got 27. We're getting good at this!