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.