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By: Coty May

“Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!”

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What is Brain Age

• an entertainment video game that employs games

• Created and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS

• A game that simulates your mind

• Single or multi-player game– Played by built in Wireless (Nintendo DS)

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Development • Inspired by the work of prominent Japanese

neuroscientist Dr. Ryuta Kawashima• Based on the book Train Your Brain:

60 Days to a Better Brain by Dr. Ryuta Kawashima

• It was first released in Japan (May 2005) and was later released else where.

• In Japan, Brain Age 2 was the best-selling game in its debut month, selling 1,084,857 units.

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Weekly Sales Graph

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Role• Brain Age composed of about

15 different games• simulates your Prefrontal

Cortex (the “control tower” of your brain)

• gives your brain a workout that it needs like solving simple math problems, counting currency, drawing pictures on the Nintendo DS touch screen, unscrambling letters and etc.

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Reputation • Nintendo secured nearly

70,000 orders for the first shipment

• sequel had over 850,000 orders placed before its launch

• sold 14.48 million copies worldwide, according to Nintendo (Brain Age 1 and 2)

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Conclusion NO killing or death, but it does use math and other critical life skills in a computer game!