Richard Grisham

I’ve been eating up Brain Age since I got my DS Lite last week, and suffice to say I am improving my poor old brain every day. My initial “age” was 50, and I’ve gotten that down to 38 in a week. Considering that speed-math is not exactly my strength, I’m kind of happy with that. Also considering that everyone else that I allowed to take the test scored significantly worse than me, I am really happy.

Brain Age is a wonderful example of really using the DS in a way that is not standard gaming fare, and that appeals to all sorts of people. I realize that I am about the 40 millionth person to say this about the game (well, it’s not really a game so much as a….a…..um……..er………something else?) but I get a big smile each time I use it.

Between talking to it (which never fails to surprise the people I show it to), drawing pictures, filling out Soduku puzzles, and writing answers to simple math problems, the DS’s capabilities shine through in Brain Age like very few software applications I’ve ever used.