Brain Age 2 Ships in the U.S.

August 20, 2007, 7:20 am EDT
Total comments: 9

Train your brain again, starting tomorrow.

BRACE YOUR BRAIN: WORK OUT WITH NINTENDO'S MENTAL AEROBICS GAME

How Low Can Your 'Brain Age' Go?

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 20, 2007 – Have the lazy days of summer slowed your brain? Have you read one too many trashy beach romance novels? Is a fifth grader smarter than you? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, it's time for you to sharpen up with a copy of Brain Age™ 2: More Training in Minutes a Day, launching today exclusively for the portable Nintendo DS™.

Brain Age 2 has 15 new, intensely engaging activities designed to give your brain a daily workout. Millions of men, women, students and seniors worldwide picked up the original Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day game, ushering in both a new genre of video games and a new audience of players. Brain Age 2 includes a fresh set of tests for people who enjoyed challenging themselves with the original.

"The point of the original Brain Age was to jolt users' brains out of complacency by challenging them with a variety of fun activities," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. "Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day expands the benefit and gives you mental tests you've never tried before."

You don't have to have played the original to enjoy Brain Age 2, which offers activities like winning (or intentionally losing) at rock, paper, scissors; repeated subtraction of a small number from a larger one; quickly making change; unscrambling letters to form a word; and playing notes on a virtual piano keyboard. With 100 new sudoku puzzles and ways for users to compete against friends and family members, Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day appeals to everyone, no matter their age or prior experience with video games.

The original Brain Age has sold a stunning 8.61 million copies worldwide, including more than 1.4 million in the United States alone, while its sequel has already posted sales of 5.33 million in Japan. The U.S. version retails at an MSRP of just $19.99. It also is available bundled with a new dual-toned Crimson/Onyx Nintendo DS Lite at an MSRP of $149.99 at select retailers.

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day and other games in Nintendo's Touch Generations brand demonstrate that people want fun, engaging experiences they can't find anywhere else. Between now and Sept. 30, Nintendo Street Teams will visit Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta to give consumers of all ages the chance to take their brains for a test drive.

Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day launches today and is rated E for Everyone. For more information about Brain Age 2, please visit www.BrainAge.com.

Talkback

that Baby guyAugust 20, 2007

So, who's planning one buying this one?

KaironCarmine Red, Associate EditorAugust 20, 2007

I'll get it eventually. My bro pre-ordered it and will force mom and dad to play it.

that Baby guyAugust 20, 2007

Well, I get my parents to play it for a little bit, then they got addicted to Sudoku, but in the newspaper, not on the DS! Does this version retain the Sudoku, or was it not added this time around?

GoldenPhoenixAugust 20, 2007

I loved Brain Age 1 so I'll definately be there for Brain Age 2!

KhushrenadaAugust 20, 2007

No, I checked. It has a hundred new Sudoku puzzles and it will be the main reason I'm buying it tomorrow. Well, that and the fact that it seems to have some really interesting training games. Seems to broaden out to have more than math games. But, I finshed all the sudoku puzzles awhile ago in the first one and loved the interface. I've been itching for more puzzles of late so this is great for me. I've been trying to find copies of Sudoku Gridmaster but they have vanished. Which is wierd. It was part of the Touch generation series so I thought they would be around for some time. Never fails. I get interested in a game and want to purchase it and now I can't find a copy. Hotel Dusk looks to be the next in this chain of events.

that Baby guyAugust 20, 2007

Soduku Gridmaster wasn't so good. I'll have to push this onto my parents, then. I know they're getting old, though. My mother falls asleep every single time she does a puzzle. It never fails. Not once.