Standard Edition
StandardIn the box
- Nintendo DS game card
- Case with cover art
- Instruction booklet
Nintendo DS
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
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.
PuzzleQuiz/Trivia
- Update patch
- No patch
- Time to beat
- about 2.3 hours
- Plays offline
- Yes
Overview
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.
Official trailer
Trailer. Watch on YouTube
Gameplay
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (NDS Gameplay), GXZ95. Watch on YouTube
Screenshots
Game details
- Genres
- Puzzle, Quiz/Trivia
- Developer
- Nintendo SPD Production Group No. 2
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Series
- Brain Age
- Platforms
- Wii U, Nintendo DS
- Age rating
- ESRB E
- Modes
- Single player
- Yes
- Co op
- No
- Age ratings
- CERO
- A
- ESRB
- E
Release dates
| Platform | Region | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DS | Japan | 2005-05-19 |
| Nintendo DS | North America | 2006-04-16 |
| Nintendo DS | Europe / PAL | 2006-06-09 |
| Nintendo DS | Australia | 2006-06-16 |
Editions
Space and patches
Update patchNo patch
Playable today
Playable offline todayYes
Every exercise still plays on any DS.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ever released on disc | Yes, on Nintendo DS game card |
| Ever released in the store | Yes, 14 April 2016 On the Wii U Virtual Console. |
| In the store to buy today | No The Wii U eShop closed on 27 March 2023. |
| Can be downloaded again if you already bought it | Yes Wii U Virtual Console purchases can still be downloaded again. |
| Disc runs with no patch | Yes |
| Disc runs with the final patch | Does not exist No patch was ever released. |
| Playable offline today: campaign | Yes |
| Playable offline today: local multiplayer | Yes Shares exercises with other DS systems over Download Play. |
Online
Plays offlineYes
Reception
- Aggregates
Outlet Platform Score Scale Metacritic DS 77 100 - Critics
Outlet Score Scale GameSpot 7.2 10 GameSpy 3.5 5 IGN 8 10
Staff and cast
- Staff
Role Name Developer Nintendo SPD Publisher Nintendo Director Kouichi Kawamoto Producer Shinya Takahashi Programmers Shinji Kitahara, Yoshinori Katsuki, Jun Ito Composers Minako Hamano, Akito Nakatsuka
Notes for collectors
- Supervised by Professor Ryuta Kawashima of Tohoku University; the Japanese title carries his name.
- Up to four players can save profiles on one card and compare results.
- Some exercises can be sent to other DS systems over Download Play; the Wii U Virtual Console version leaves this out.
- 19.01 million copies sold by September 2015.
Credits
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Nintendo SPD Production Group No. 2
- Director
- Kouichi Kawamoto
- Released
- 2006-04-16
- Age rating
- ESRB E
- Region
- US
- Time to beat
- about 2.3 hours
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