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Brain Age 2 has many interesting and challenging games, although some can be hard, especially for very young kids.
Brain Age starts out by calculating your brain age through a series of tests, one of which is Rock, Paper, Scissors but it adds a twist. It asks you to win or lose which can make it quite challenging if you're not concentrating. There are other tests to test your brain age as well which are non-verbal like pick the biggest number on a screen full of numbers, repeatedly subtracting a smaller number from a bigger number, memorizing number placement in an equation to write in the total. After the testing your brain age is calculated - closer to 20 is better.
You can then try the daily activities to improve your brain age. Some are easy and others quite hard. Here is a list of some:
-Word Scramble where you have to unscramble letters to make a word, medium difficulty
- Change maker, giving back change from a total, easy
- Memory Sprint, keeping track of how many runners passed a runner, medium difficulty
- Piano Player, playing notes on a simulated keyboard with the stylus, easy
- Sign finder, you get a simple equation and have to determine what sign goes in between, easy but you need to be quick
- Word Blend, 2-4 words are spoken together by different voices and you have to write them down, hard - this game is ok till there are only 2 voices speaking but with 4 voices it's almost impossible to figure out what they're saying
- Calendar count - You're asked questions like "What will be the day 3 days before 5 days from now?"
There are some other games that get unlocked as you keep playing. However, I don't play daily and each time I pick it up after a gap I seem to be stuck at the same level I was the last time so I have not been able to unlock any more games.
I've also played Big Brain Academy and it is a little less challenging, a little more diverse and colorful and therefore more fun than this game. I like Brain Age 2 but sometimes because of the "strict" instructor who chides you when you've been remiss, black and white colors and games that require good concentration it seems more like work than just plain fun. So I don't play it very often.
Overall it really tests your brain with interesting activities and I rank it highly as one of the best brain games available on the DS.
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VIRUS BUSTER unlocks automatically after a few days of stamped games. I really don't know exactly how many are required. I guess around 20 or 30 days of play. However, there is a way to access it manually and immediately after the first stamp of the first day. On the Training section, go to the bottom of the list and tap on the last appearance with ???. You need to have completed at least one of the exercises and obtained the daily stamp for Virus Buster to open here.
To this day, my highest Virus Buster score is 1235 on the Hard mode. I posted three pictures related to this score on the front page of this product. It is not the best out there. Many have reached 4000+ points playing also on the Hard level.
As for the other games, the ones for training your mind, my favorites are Memory Sprint, Change Maker, Piano Player, Word Scramble and Calendar Count.
A NOTE OF CAUTION HERE: Anything in an excessive dose is harmful. Therefore, if you get addicted to VIRUS BUSTER set a limit to your play time. Too much of a good thing is not a good thing. I've read that some people have exceeded themselves with video games to the point of falling into a seizure. Just be careful if you get addicted to it, and I am not joking.
If you have a Nintendo DS Lite, you can play the original version of Virus Buster in a Game Boy Advance (GBA)format. The game is called "Dr. Mario".
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MY FAVORITE IS "VIRUS BUSTER" - FOR RELAXATION??
By Stevens on June 21, 2010
VIRUS BUSTER is a bonus game in this daily training program and it is my favorite. It is supposed to be just for relaxation, but I find it extremely stimulating. Trying to bust those viruses is not a lay-back situation. It looks like a slow game, but the continual fall of "pills" (sometimes in batches of three) in the small space provided, requires quick observation and fast action. I play it on hard mode. It is less crowded on the easy and normal modes.By Stevens on June 21, 2010
VIRUS BUSTER unlocks automatically after a few days of stamped games. I really don't know exactly how many are required. I guess around 20 or 30 days of play. However, there is a way to access it manually and immediately after the first stamp of the first day. On the Training section, go to the bottom of the list and tap on the last appearance with ???. You need to have completed at least one of the exercises and obtained the daily stamp for Virus Buster to open here.
To this day, my highest Virus Buster score is 1235 on the Hard mode. I posted three pictures related to this score on the front page of this product. It is not the best out there. Many have reached 4000+ points playing also on the Hard level.
As for the other games, the ones for training your mind, my favorites are Memory Sprint, Change Maker, Piano Player, Word Scramble and Calendar Count.
A NOTE OF CAUTION HERE: Anything in an excessive dose is harmful. Therefore, if you get addicted to VIRUS BUSTER set a limit to your play time. Too much of a good thing is not a good thing. I've read that some people have exceeded themselves with video games to the point of falling into a seizure. Just be careful if you get addicted to it, and I am not joking.
If you have a Nintendo DS Lite, you can play the original version of Virus Buster in a Game Boy Advance (GBA)format. The game is called "Dr. Mario".
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