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Big Brain Academy | 
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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  104 reviews
Sales Rank: 279
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: ntr p ayae
Model: 45496737085
UPC: 045496737085
EAN: 0045496737085
ASIN: B000EGELQ4
Release Date: June 5, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Face an assortment of challenges that you'll have to solve quickly | | • | Special practice mode helps players get used to the game's fast-paced assault of problems | | • | Continuous display of your brain weight, helping you track your progress during a match | | • | 8-player Vs. Mode - all players can connect through a single game pak |
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Product Description
Big Brain Academy is a modern-day stress reliever that improves your thinking skills. These 15 activities test your brain powers and improve your thinking abilities in areas like logic, memory, math and analysis. Free your mind by working through a number of simple but deep problems. There are five different types of challenges, appropriate for all ages and challenging for all skill levels.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 99 more reviews...
Fun game, a nice companion to Brain Age 2. October 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not much of a gamer but enjoy playing the word games and "brain" games on the DS. I bought this game as a gift for my 10 year old but I find I play with it more often than she does. She prefers games like Guitar Hero DS and Pokemon Diamond to this game.
This game makes a great companion to the Brain Age 2 game. Brain Age 2 gives you certain activities like unscrambling words, guess the right mathematical sign, counting change, memory sprint, play a song on keyboard etc. which are designed to activate different areas of your brain. Some are more challenging than others and you unlock more activities as you go further in your training. I would not recommend that game for children under 9 years old as some activities will be too hard. The instructor in the game, who is too chatty for my liking, also says things like "This activity will activate the pre-frontal cortex of your brain" which is geared towards 10+ ages.
Brain Academy on the other hand has a slightly easier format and most can be played by ages 6-adult. There are 15 activities (or mini games) divided in 5 groups - Think, Compute, Analyze, Memory, Logic. There are 3 activities in each group in which you can choose the level Easy, Medium or Hard. You begin by practicing each activity and your performance is measured in "brain weight". You get awarded bronze, silver or gold medals for your efforts, a brain of 250g or more gets you the gold medal. As you go on, the game fills in your Brain Pentagon graph (for the 5 areas) to tell you where you may need more practice. When you feel ready you can take the test after which the game will tell you your grade. I prefer the Brain Academy method of scoring which takes your strongest score on each activity. In BA2 your score for each activity gets recorded only once a day and if you do that activity again on the same day with better results it does not register the results.
On Brain Academy you can also organize play offs with your friends who have a DS using only one game. My 5th grader can beat me on this one more easily than she can on Brain Age 2 as the activities are not too hard, you just need to pick up speed by practicing them regularly.
I think my kid summarized it correctly and I am paraphrasing for her here.
"Both Brain Age and Big Brain Academy have too few games. Once you know them all it can get boring. However, Big Brain Academy has more games than Brain Age 2 and when you play it you feel like you're having fun while learning. Brain Age 2 has the strict teacher who makes you feel like you're just learning."
Although I like both games I sort of agree with her opinion.
 A challenge for your mind! October 16, 2008
Over all this is a wonderful game. It gets a little tedious at times and from a psychological stand point it is only good until you learn the game. By this I mean, once you are oriented and able to do the games at an A or B rating you should put it to the side for a while. To keep your brain active and functioning into old age it is best to try novel tasks, so obviously putting it to the side for a few weeks every now and then will help your brain functioning. If that is what you bought it for in the first place.
I still stand by it as a great game, best for the mind in sporadic doses!
Huge potential .. great training and even my kids love it ... October 14, 2008
Simply put I have the Brain Age Games and prefer this one as it has 15 total games with 3 levels on each one.
The 5 areas mean you get to see what areas you need more training in and really get some specifics on what you can do to improve your performance.
Test scores can be really varied as you can get a different mix of test types and you will find you are better at some than others.
One annoyance and why it's didn't get a 5 is the 4 to 6 steps they have built in to the end of every single game. If they removed this I would have given it a 5.
Last point, my 5 and 6 year olds love many of the games and are doing great at training their brains.
 Not my favorite cartridge August 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This cartridge is not one of my favorites. The information repeats over and over, and the game-play can become rather boring very quickly. Some of my other cartridges always offer some new and interesting twists all the time and always seem new. This particular cartridge gets real old real fast.
Get a Bigger Brain June 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've wanted this game since I first got my DS almost a year ago. It is similar to the Brain Age games, but approaches training in a totally different way. There are 5 areas of your brain to improve, and 3 levels of difficulty per mini-game (about 3 each area) to keep you busy. The games are interesting and unusual, and I'll keep at'em until my brain is really big. The Brain Age games are still faves. Keep in mind this keeps track of your progress and trains your brain in a totally different way. Don't expect BA3, but do expect to have fun.
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