Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? (Nintendo DS)
Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? (Nintendo DS)
Give your gray matter the workout that it needs to stay sharp, focused and young. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is inspired by a book that was written by Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neurologist. His theories revolve around keeping brains young by performing mental activities quickly.
When users first start a new game, they will be given a Brain Age Check that determines the age of their brains. Each day, they can compete for the high score in any activities that they have unlocked. They also can check the age of their brains once per day. The more training they do, the more activities they will unlock. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is designed to be played in small chunks over a long period of time and can hold data from a year of activity.
Features:
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is a series of mini-games designed to give brains a workout. Activities include performing simple math problems, counting people going in and out of a house, drawing pictures on the touch screen and reading classic literature out loud.
When users start a new game, they will take a series of tests and get a score that shows how old their brains are. This number is called the “Brain Age.” As they use the software over a series weeks and months, their mental acuity will improve and the Brain Age will drop, indicating a younger, healthier brain. Progress is charted in graph form.
Users can keep up to four save files on one game card. Sharing a game allows them to compare their results with those of family and friends. Users also can send a demo version of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day to friends or compete with up to 16 players in a battle to see who can solve math problems the fastest.
Customer Review: Honestly - it’s good!
I got this game in January. I really enjoy playing the different games. You have to unlock certain games, like for e.g. there is a game called ’syllable count’, where you have to count how many syllables there are in different sentences. There is also another game called ‘calculations X20′ where you have 20 different sums to answer as quickly and as accurately as you can. The sums are easy, so one of them might be ‘ 8+4 ‘ e.t.c. There are lots of different games, which is one thing that’s good about it.
Altogether, I would highly reccommend this game.
Customer Review: Great Game
I’ve only had this game a couple of weeks but I’m really enjoying it. It certainly does exercise those grey cells and is very addictive. The only down side is the voice recognition where you have to speak out the colours. Even when I speak loudly and clearly it will often not recognise what I’ve said. Apart from that it’s a great game and is great for children and adults alike.
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Nintendo DS Lite Stylus (3 Pack) - Black 
The Sims 2: Pets has already appeared on the Wii, but it was just a simple port of the PlayStation 2 version with little real use made of the Wii remote. This though is a complete reimagining of the whole The Sims concept made exclusively for Nintendo’s consoles. The concept is largely the same as always as you take control of the lives of your own fictional family in what’s a cross between a video game and an interactive version of Big Brother. The graphics have been completely revamped, moving away from the pseudo realism of the older games and using a much cuter, cartoon style that’s somewhere between Playmobil and Animal Crossing (they’re actually modelled after a Japanese toy line called Pinky Street).
Naturally the game makes full use of the Wii’s controls with the remote used to pick up, rotate and drop objects and buildings with refreshing ease, while the nunchuck is used simply to move around. This is all in the aid of making the game as customisable as possible, from the characters themselves to their homes and furniture. Previously The Sims games let you build your own house or swimming pool but here you can design your own fridge if you want or bed, sofa or any other item of furniture. This feeds into the concept of having to do up your house and turn your virtual ghost town into a thriving village full of oddball characters. With Animal Crossing still some way off this could be the next big casual game on the Wii.
Harrison Dent
List Price: ?29.99
Amazon Price: ?24.98
Used Price: ?20.25
Customer Review: Not bad at all LOL
This game is very similar to animal crossing, however i sold animal crossing as i didnt like it but this is a keeper. it may be similar but its alot more interesting !!! Unlike other sims games you dont have to keep motives up, the only downside is its easy to complete (got to 5 stars in 3days) but we cant have it all now can we LOL Sims Urbz is still my overall FAV !! 5 outta 5 though so def a great buy, happy gaming to all xxxxx
Customer Review: Bit disappointing…
MySims seems to address some of the problems that cropped up in Sims2 for the DS… but not very successfully. One of the main problems with Sims2 was the lack of mini-games (almost nothing to do), while another was the lack of locations in the game (aside from the town or the desert, there was nowhere to go). The overly-basic method of communicating with other Sims was also an issue (very repetitive). MySims, on the other hand, has lots of minigames. In fact, In MySims, the majority of action and excitement in the game is down to minigames (paragliding, making lei, casino games), rather than events. In fact, the minigames become separated from the events/story of the game… making them seem quite pointless after a while. Maybe the main problem is that the biggest incentive for playing a minigame is to earn some Simoleans. And the only thing you can do with Simoleans is buy some flowers or furniture for your house(s). That starts to feel pointless too (especially when the furniture is largely non-interactive, and can only be looked at). The key would be to relate the minigames to your actual progress in the game’s story. Maybe instead of just paragliding to gain money, you could paraglide against another character who is trying to buy the town’s Mountain for himself, etc. Connecting the minigame more closely to the story-line is important. In terms of locations, there are quite a few in MySims (forest, port, mountain, etc). It takes too long to travel from one to another, even when using the bus, making it a bit off-putting to travel around from location to location. Maybe some earnable method for quick movement around the town would have been a good idea. As for communication, it’s pretty tedious. Walking around comforting angry tourists all day gets quite boring. I started avoiding it after a while, but still managed to do well in the game. Unfortunately, another major problem with Sims2 occurs again in MySims - i.e. the shortness of the game. I’m not generally a fast gamer… but I finished the main goal of this game (reaching 5 stars) within 4 days. Overall, a bit disappointing. I still believe that the Urbz is the best Sims game for the Nintendo DS. Great story-line, good mini-games, plenty of locations, plenty of stuff to do, and motivation to do it.
Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS) 
List Price: ?29.99
Amazon Price: ?24.98
Used Price: ?23.50
Customer Review: brilliant racing
Got this for Christmas from my little sister. It is fantastic and now my favourite DS game. Lots of different tracks and drivers to make every race different. Fun to link up too.
Customer Review: I LOVE IT!!
I used to adore mario kart on the snes!!! So when i saw it out on ds, i had to have it, i got my boyfriend to get me the game for christmas..oh,and a ds, as i didnt have one! lol, but anyway,i adore this game, you can play on it for 10 min’s, upto 2hours!! its quite addictive,and i love that you can also play agasint other people. This is a brilliant game with great graphics, i love it! Recommended!
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