"Exercise is the key to good health, both for body and mind-and now there's finally a way to make mental exercise simple and fun." Brain Age is one of the newest games out for the Nintendo DS. This game is based on the work of a Japanese neuroscientist named Dr. Ryuta Kawashima. He has developed activities to help stimulate the prefrontal cortex. This is a brain muscle, that if you exercise it daily then you will keep your mind young. It is the same idea with your body...if you exercise it daily you will keep it young.

The main aspect of this game includes a way to keep track of you brain age. You start by taking three tests that include math problems, puzzles, word memory and color recognition. These tests will then decide what your current brain age is. 20 years old is the best that you can get. After you have your brain age you can then play the game daily to exercise your brain power. You can retest as often as once a day and see how your training is helping you out. You can store up to four profiles on the cartridge and even see how you compare with the other people that you allow to use your game. Hopefully yours is better because they are just borrowing your game.

This game also includes Suduku games that you can play and train on daily. This game is playable against other people that have DS systems, but the only game that you can challenge others on is the math computations. This is one of the items that I feel should be better. Since there are several tests available for you to do daily, more of these tests should be available as a way for you to compete against others.

This game is definetly a lot of fun and something more intellectual then most games out there. It is a breath of fresh air. The only reason that I am not giving this game a perfect score is because of the lack of more games to play against other people.