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- Platform: Nintendo DS
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- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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- Big Brain Academy is a series of minigames that are designed to exercise the brain.
- Test mode will quiz players in five areas: thinking, memorization, computation, analysis and identification.
- Features a riotous multiplayer mode in which up to eight people can play with a single game card.
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Product Description
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.
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.
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128 of 132 people found the following review helpful
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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.
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.
126 of 130 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I greatly enjoyed Brain Training for the DS but was concerned that this would be more of the same. I've had it on import for a few months now and it is truly a great game. It's a lot more fun and less serious than Brain Training. You are spurred on to play more and more to get bronze, silver and gold medals (you can then try for the extremely-hard-to-get platinum medals). This is not a game you'd play for hours on end like New Super Mario Bros. or Castlevania, it is for short bursts of play when you get the urge to test your brain or beat your friends/family.
Multiplayer is just brilliant - a real laugh playing with just 2 or 3 people - it can only be better with up to 8!
Seriously, if I could only have one game for the DS, it would be Big Brain Academy.
Multiplayer is just brilliant - a real laugh playing with just 2 or 3 people - it can only be better with up to 8!
Seriously, if I could only have one game for the DS, it would be Big Brain Academy.
170 of 178 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
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.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
good game to keep the brain going
as in a previous review, i get bored easily, so not too addictive. good though, graphics not brilliant but god enough. Read more
Published 1 month ago by wiggle12
Great fun
Great game. Having good fun with this game as a family with two nintendo ds's. Would recommend to those who need something to increase their concentration!
Published 1 month ago by smithmedics
Like 'Brain Training' but more fun
Having used `Brain Training', my sole reason for getting a DS, and being very impressed by it I decided to get this one too to add a bit of variety. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. K. Humphries
Best Brain Game!
I love games where I need to think! Having played both Dr Kawashima's Brain Training games and Mind Quiz, I have to say that this one was the best. Read more
Published 6 months ago by SarahBatha
brain academy
great game for the brain ,great fun,easy to manage ,easy to play for 3 years and up {some games are for older children }
Published 7 months ago by soula
BIG BRAIN
I am a grandmother who has Brain Training as well, but this is a nice change, and challenges other ways. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mrs. G. M. Morrish
Big Brain Academy - Fun for Adults Too!
Big Brain Academy is for children and adults aged 8 years and over. Although I think most eight year old may struggle with some of the puzzles. Read more
Published 15 months ago by sammyj
Brain bending
I treated myself to the DSi XL and bought this game as i had tried it on my nephews DS. Boxing Day was a frustrating day for the members of my family as we all tried to outdo each... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Ms. J. Saunders
Grow Your Brain!
This game is so much fun! I bought this for my wife and she hasn't stopped using it. The game is so addictive! Read more
Published 17 months ago by AlexKrycek
Really quite boring
When I got this game, I was under the impression that it would be great fun, and as good as the wii version. I was extremely disappointed. Read more
Published 17 months ago
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