Product Description

Enrol at the Big Brain Academy for the ultimate mental exercise regime. Find out how fast you can think; test your ability for logical thought; and turn that dull daily train journey into an intellectual keep-fit session. With Big Brain Academy, you can have fun while giving your brain a rigorous workout, playing across a series of mini-games designed to stimulate your mind. You can practice the challenges, go straight for the test, or even take on your friends. Test yourself across five categories: Think, Memorise, Analyse, Compute and Identify. Each category offers three different types of game, adding up to 15 different kinds of brainteasers - and there are three different difficulty settings to push your cranial power. Whether you're calculating the number of cubes contained within a structure, identifying quick-fire images or solving simple yet fast-paced maths problems, Big Brain Academy really gets the old grey matter working! Answer questions as quickly as possible against a 60 second time limit, and discover just how your brain measures up, as the friendly Dr. Lobe gives you the results of your performance.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #220 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Model: 45496737085
• Published on: 2006-06
• Released on: 2006-07-07
• Rating: To Be Announced
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .63" h x 4.95" w x 5.71" l, .25 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Big Brain Academy, the second title in Nintendo's brain game series of games, challenges you with a course load of mind-bending activities and an addictive Multiplayer Mode!

Test your mental acuity in a five-category quiz: thinking, memorization, computation, analysis, and identification. Work your computing abilities by comparing stacks of coins to find the higher value! Bulk up your analysis skills by quickly counting a huge stack of books! Each exercise takes less than a minute to complete. After you take the quiz, you'll get the weight of your brain, areas of strength and weakness -- and, most importantly, which career is best suited for you. Don't worry, it's all in fun.

Once you think you're the star student at the Academy, compete with up to seven friends or family members through lightning-fast activities to see who really has the biggest brain of the bunch.

Big Brain Academy brings a fresh entertainment anyone young and young at heart can enjoy. It's the perfect way to challenge and stimulate your mind.

Customer Reviews

Very enjoyable
I disagree with the previous reviewer who thinks that this game is more suitable for under 10s and not for adults. I recently bought a DS to take on holiday with a group of mates (all in our twenties and thirties) and this game proved to be a massive winner with everyone. There are five categories (think, identify, memorise, calculate and analyse) and each category has three individual and varied challange games. The games are good because they don't only rely on mathematics but require a variety of skills and an all round intelligence is required togain a good overall score. The games may appear simple at first but get deceptively tricky as you get deeper into the game and the time limit makes even the coolest heads panic. Getting a top score requires patience, practice and no little skill and getting a good score allows significant bragging rights to fellow gamers. Getting a poor score can be humiliating and lead to a burning need to play again and prove to everyone that you're not as stupid as the game implies.

great fun for everyone
i finally agreed to let my son have a DS for educational purposes (i knew i would cave in at some point and this was a very handy excuse). We bought the Brain Trainer and the Big brain academy at the same time. Both games are great but the Big Brain academy attracts the children straight away.

The bright colours and pictures sucker them into learning without them realising it and suddenly they are very eager to find out who has the heaviest brain amongst friends and family. As a parent you can see them improving every time they use it and they take pride in every gram of brain weight. An added bonus for us was that it is multi-lingual, so my son can practice in both of his languages and also in the French that he is learning at school.

But its not just for the children. We bought the DS and the first day of our holidays and by the end of it we were all hooked! A great buy that the children will love to try and beat you at.

Big Brain Academy - buy this for Christmas
Excellent fun for all the family, my daughter (8 years old) got this for her birthday... I caught my wife sneeking it off to play in bed, my son (3 years old) can do some of the easier puzzles. The sounds and graphics (although simple) will be ringing in your ears way after Christmas. Watch out though, if you close it down in the middle of the game you can lose all the users' statistics (as my son did!). Great fun - buy it now!!!