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Brain Age Giveaways |
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Nintendo gave away copies of their upcoming Brain Age following Satoru Iwata's keynote address at the Game Developers Conference on Thursday. The picture to the left is the note that was attached to the giveaway copies.
Brain Age is a game that trains your brain in "Minutes a Day". It helps flex your mental muscle in a fun sort of way. You take a series of tests to see what your DS Brain Age is and through assigned brain exercises hopefully to lower your brain age.
The game has quick solving simple math problems, counting people going in and out of a house simultaneously, drawing pictures on the Touch Screen, reading classic literature out loud, and more.
At the conference they invited 5 people to participate in a demo of the game. Jamil Moledina, director of GDC; Geoff Keighley, from G4TV; Will Wright and a Nintendo guy. These where the final scores, keeping in mind you want a low score.
Brain age:
Will Wright: 41
Nintendo guy: 20
Geoff Keighley: 66
Jamil Moledina: 37
Not everyone was happy with there results so they opted for a rematch
WW: 32
NG: 29
GK: 43
JM: 31
They must of really enjoyed the game because the retailers bought 70K more units than expected.
Brain Age will be released April 17th at a price of $20.
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Terrell Chambers, Revolution Report Editor on Brain Age
While I was reading the message boards during the keynote, Revolution fans seemed horribly disgruntled over the overwhelming focus on Brain Age for the Nintendo DS. But truthfully, this keynote was for developers, and that game is an absolute testament to Nintendo's vision of what can be possible for the industry. This is a game that took 3 months to make, costed less than $500,000 to create, with less than 10 developers behind the helm. Yet despite lacking big-budget pizzazz or years in development, it has gone on to be a multi-million seller in Japan alone. I say that Nintendo has earned the right to toot its own horn about this. Brain Age is not just some money-maker for Nintendo, it's a groundbreaking achievement and the poster child for the battle against big-budget necessity in the industry. This game has flown against every hallmark of this industry and become an unfathomable success in spite of that; people need to show this game the respect it rightfully deserves.
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