Left Brain, Right Brain

by Majesco

Product Features

• Book style play has you flipping the DS over and around to develop hand-eye coordination
• Master 4 single player game modes
• Challenge a friend to 2-player mini-game tests via DS download play
• Monitor personal progress with development percentages show after each game
• Extensive use of touch screen for speed, accuracy, recognition, memory and strategy based games

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000V6I7TE
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 5 x 0.8 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 5, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #6,961 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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  Video Games > Nintendo DS > Puzzle

• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Left Brain Right Brain, allows you to work on your mental skills to become ambidextrous. While training your hands with speed based DS mini-games, you'll also be training the left and right hemispheres of your brain.

Features:

• Use the Touch Screen in 15 different mini-games based on speed, accuracy, association, recognition, memory and strategy
• Games include: Connect the Dots, Pop the Balloons, Feel the Music, Hit the Monsters, Touch the Green Square, Save the World, Open the Safe, Trace the Shape and Navigate the Maze
• Book-style play: flip the DS over and around to develop your hand-eye coordination with both left and right hand
• Single player game modes: Hand Exercises, Balance Check, Left Hand vs. Right Hand and Ambidexterity Check
• Challenge a friend to 2-player mini-game tests via DS download play
• Practice any activity, over 5 difficulty levels, to prepare for ambidexterity tests
• Monitor personal progress and assess improvement with development percentages for each hand that appear after play

Product Description

Are you a righty or a lefty? What if you could be both? With Left Brain, Right Brain, you can hone your mental skills to become truly ambidextrous. While training your hands with speed based DS Mini-games, you'll also be training the left and right hemispheres of your brain. It's like two games in one!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Uneventful But Could Be Helpful, March 22, 2008

By	M. Glass - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Left Brain, Right Brain (Video Game)

I got this game to, like everyone else, help balance out the usefulness of each of my hands. I was disappointed that after the initial evaluation exam, the game considered me almost 100% ambidextrous (I think I got 98%). It was disappointing because there is a noticeable difference in my writing between my right (dominate) and my left hand.

After the first exam I kept at it. I went through a couple of the different activities. I now know why I was considered almost 100% from the start. After working to get better scores on each of the activities, there was no noticeable increase in the usefulness of my left hand.

Some of the activities were enjoyable while others lacked any thrill what so ever.

I recommend borrowing this game and seeing if this is for you. If you get almost a perfect score from the first exam, pass over this game because it will not help.

29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad - For those who REALLY want to become ambidextrous, December 28, 2007

By	Michaele L. (Fort Lauderdale, FL) - See all my reviews

Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Left Brain, Right Brain (Video Game)

This was actually more enjoyable than I thought it would be; we do not realize how much we rely on a dominant hands (we being those of us not gifted enough to be ambidextrous). I can think of lots of reasons that one might wish to become ambidextrous, least of all just for the heck of it.

As a statistic, this reviewer broke her hand while playing a Nitendo Wii (go ahead and laugh... I did it while bowling). Being that I broke my dominant hand, I was actually forced to use my non dominant hand for many tasks. After that, I decided that I actually DO want to become a little more adept with my non dominant hand and this game may actually help.

I suppose after my being forced to use my non dominant hand, I'm not that surprised that I actually did quite well with the non dominant hand but there is room for improvement and I will actually try in order to be a little more comfortable in doing so.

Why climb Mt. Everest? "Because it's there". Why become ambidextrous? "Because I can".

77 of 100 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Does it work?, December 11, 2007

By	J. Thompson (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)

Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Left Brain, Right Brain (Video Game)

I was intrigued by the concept of this game. Apparently by "exercising" the weak areas of your brain, you can make them stronger, and possibly in the future become ambidextrous. I sat down to test this "game" and I actually had high hopes. You begin by choosing whether you are right or left handed, then do an initial test by using your dominant hand. I'm right handed, and the initial test was pretty easy. Catch come dots, whack some moles, connect some dots, and capture some colored blobs. Pretty easy stuff, and not too graphically intensive for the DS. Next, you will rotate the DS, and begin using your other hand. Using my other hand was easy at first, but about 2 minutes into the 5 minute test, my brain started to hurt. Not so much a headache, but a dull sensation in the back of my head/top of my neck. In fact, talking about it now I get the sensation again. Is this what "working out" your brain feels like? I never feel this way when I'm learning Japanese, or studying for exams, so I know its not because I've never learned anything before (haha!). As to whether or not this actually does what it claims, I'll have to wait and see.
Anyhow, as expected I did much better while using my right hand, and the scores weren't quite double, but almost. I hesitate to call this a game, as it really isn't much fun, but more a series of tests, with the hopeful promise at becoming apt in a skill-set you lack. Speaking of, why would I want to become ambidextrous in the first place? What's the point? I can see how this cartridge may be of use to an amputee, but for most of the population, what's the advantage of being able to write with either hand, or perhaps ....? bat switch stance? play reverse guitar? I honestly don't see the point. Maybe this would be useful for you (if it works), but I don't see myself using this program that often.