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Post by smellslikesomeghost on Jun 8, 2006 16:36:02 GMT
This intrigues me. I think it's being released on friday, and I have to admit that I quite like the idea of pinching my kids ds and seeing if I can boost my brain power. Thoughts?
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 8, 2006 20:51:01 GMT
I want a DS. Don't they have a new Mario game, except you play at Princess Peach! Remember on Super Mario World 2? I used to always pick her cos she could float.
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Post by smellslikesomeghost on Jun 9, 2006 13:39:10 GMT
The DS is very cool. We have Mario karts on it and I don't like Princess Peach she always barges me rudely, I always choose Toad because when I'm Toad I'M A WINNER!
I have seen a glimpse of the Princess Peach game but don't really know anything about it. Far more interested in keeping Alzheimer's at bay with brain training as I am getting a bit vague already.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 9, 2006 17:43:19 GMT
Toad always wins in MarioKart! He is so light and fast. But Bowser and the other fatties can barge him around.
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Post by smellslikesomeghost on Jun 9, 2006 20:52:39 GMT
But Bowser and the other fatties can barge him around. I hate being them, I think it's really clever how slow and heavy it actually feels to be them. |
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Post by spanky on Jun 15, 2006 15:07:32 GMT
There's a new proper Mario Bros. game on it too (2d side-scroller)
It's coming out here in August, but obviously imports work fine. It's so good.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 15, 2006 21:34:56 GMT
Ooh! I might have to get one....
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Post by si on Jun 18, 2006 19:41:48 GMT
New Super Mario Bros is actually out a week on Friday.
This Friday the DS Lite is released -- all the more reason to buy one!
Super Princess Peach was campalicious but far too easy.
It's worth getting a DS for Animal Crossing: Wild World. Just like the GC version but tiny and in your hand!
There's also a lot of new and exciting looking games coming, plus the possibility that it'll be compatible with the Wii, which is looking amazing IMO.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 18, 2006 23:05:23 GMT
I love how since the Gameboy, is pretty much keeping Nintendo afloat they exploit it's popularity. So they bring out the Gameboy Advance, then about a year later they completely redesign it as the Gameboy Advance SP, then they release the DS which, although they claim is not the new Gameboy, basically is in everything but name. Now they are redesigning it again. Has it even been out a year yet!?
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Post by xenomaniac on Jul 9, 2006 14:48:47 GMT
I have bought Brain Training and it turns out I'm rather stupid. Who'd have guessed?
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Post by si on Jul 14, 2006 9:38:21 GMT
I'm a bit obsessed with Brain Training (and Electroplankton).
Tip: If you tell Kawashima you're not able to talk, the Age Test games are much easier -- I always do really badly at the Stroop test. I fluctuate between having the brain of a 20 year old and a 30 year old.
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Post by smellslikesomeghost on Jul 14, 2006 18:36:49 GMT
I'm a bit obsessed with Brain Training (and Electroplankton). Tip: If you tell Kawashima you're not able to talk, the Age Test games are much easier -- I always do really badly at the Stroop test. I fluctuate between having the brain of a 20 year old and a 30 year old. For the stroop test I have to unfocus my eyes so that I can't read the word otherwise I am doomed. I am ace at reading aloud and rubbish at my 8 times table. I am loving it. Had a go at the new mario bros game yesterday and it is sooo retro. I don't know if it is all the way through but it seemed exactly like the one I played on my SNES. And yeah, it's such a con. When I bought my twins ds's at the end of May the guy in Game was going on and on about how the DS was so cool and new and fab and how old and rubbish gameboy advance is. Yesterday I took my mum in there to get her one and they said "Oh, don't get a DS, it's been out a year, the DS light is blah blah blah." It won't be long before the next one and the one after. All abig commercial rip. But fun. |
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Post by xenomaniac on Jul 14, 2006 19:04:12 GMT
Its alwasy like that though. I have just about resisted an Xbox 360, it's all about PS3 and Wii.
I love my DS anyhow, unlike my PSP which I had to hunt around for for ages last week. I hadn't touched it for ages. Warioware is ace.
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Post by smellslikesomeghost on Jul 17, 2006 18:09:59 GMT
I am thrilled to have a brain age of 26. Thrilled! And my younger brother is stuck on 30, ha ha ha.
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Post by Essexgirl on Jul 24, 2006 15:43:42 GMT
I have a Gameboy Advance SP that I have not played for two years. Will I not play a DS after six months either?
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Post by Steven on Mar 26, 2007 14:43:48 GMT
Tip: If you tell Kawashima you're not able to talk, the Age Test games are much easier -- I always do really badly at the Stroop test. I fluctuate between having the brain of a 20 year old and a 30 year old. That's the main downside with this, as I've come to discover recently - the voice recognition is a lot to be desired. When I tried doing the training task where you have to speak the answer to the sums into the microphone, it hasn't got a clue what I'm saying: DS: 7-1? Me: Six. DS: 8? X Me: Six. DS: 8? X Me: Six. DS: 7? X Me: SIX!!DS: 8? X It gives up on me after a while. |
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Post by drooboy on Jun 28, 2007 13:30:04 GMT
Hmmm, finally unlocked the Voice Math game and it can't cope with my 6's either, no matter how I modulate my voice. I do laugh at the instruction book which says that women may have to speak with a lower tone to be understood. Women - know your limits!
Brain Training 2 is out tomorrow. Joy!
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Post by Steven on Jun 28, 2007 14:55:16 GMT
I like to picture Nicole Kidman having the same problem. "Rock! No, not scissors: rock! ROCK! FUCKING ROCK, I SAID!"
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Post by Feral on Jun 28, 2007 17:40:26 GMT
Supposedly the voice recognition is much improved this time round. Takes away half the challenge I reckon - there's endless fun in getting your friends shouting "Blue... BLUE... BLUE! BLOOOOOOOOO!" in frustration, and then telling them how thick they are when their brain age comes in as 59...
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jun 29, 2007 9:37:50 GMT
I may get the new brain training game. Is the stroop test just red, blue and yellow? As a colour blind freak I have serious problems when greens and browns are also involved.
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Post by drooboy on Jul 2, 2007 11:28:34 GMT
Squee, Brain Training 2 arrived from the good people at play.com today! There are 4 different multiplayer games this time, one of them seems to be a version of Pictionary. Hated the drawing in the first one ("Please draw: The Mona Lisa. Focus on the smile.") so not entirely sure this is a good thing.
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Post by SweatShop on Oct 8, 2007 23:32:12 GMT
I've been playing both Brain Training games for a while now on my R4. I have found that the voice recognition works better if you put on an american accent. It recognised "blue" when I said it in my rubbish impression of an American, but not with my usual mild Scottish brogue.
I love the Sudoku puzzles though. I've gotten a lot better at them. I sit around and do them in the library in my free periods at school.
Everyone thinks i'm a complete loser.
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Post by jode* on Oct 9, 2007 8:18:48 GMT
I've played a bit. I gave up on the voice recognition tests after the first time, and just stick to the (easier?) pen play ones.
My brain age is at 20, so what do I do now? I occasionally do daily training, but I don't want a test just in case my brain age goes up (and I do like showing my 20 to people).
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