Brain Age Gets Japanese Adult Video Homage

We're not really surprised that Brain Age got a dirty movie, we're just surprised it's taken so long! Originally released in Japan as Touhoku Daigaku Mirai Kagakugijutsu Kyoudoukenkyuu Center Kawashima Ryuuta Kyouju Kanshuu Nou o Kitaeru Otona no DS Training, the DS game was a smash hit back in 2005 and 2006. This August, naughty video company Moodyz is releasing adult video parody Chinpo o Kitaeru Otona no Ingenware Training (or "Dick Drilling Adult's Lewd Word Self Training"). The DVD stars Moodyz actres Hikaru Wakana (her blog, maybe NSFW), and the box features a label that says this DVD is for "One Player" and that "Ultimated Continues Are Possible."

For those, who haven't seen the Japanese box art for the original Brain Age and its sequel, click here and here.

NDS「脳トレ」のパロディAVが登場！ [Hatimaki]

Zelda Team Working on New Games

I think we'd gotten to a point where videogames were something that everyone could no longer enjoy. As a designer, I'm always focusing on what is fun — ideas that people can enjoy. For me, I'm trying to entertain as many people as I can, creating games that the widest number of people can enjoy. Of course, that being said, we do have the existing teams at Nintendo working on the kinds of products we've always made over the years. The Zelda team is forming again to work on new games! But to me, it's about finding these new interactive experiences and bringing them to people.

Forbes Predicts Future Classics

Brain Age Creator Creating Intelligent Toyotas

"We envision future cars will be able to monitor brain and emotional activity to back up elderly drivers," said Kawashima, a Tohoku University scientist who worked on Nintendo Co.'s best-selling "Brain Age" games _ and whose smiling image is the guide in the series.

Brain Age on "Adult Version" DS

The better you get at it, the faster it goes, and the more you want to try it.

Does Brain Age Actually Work? No, Apparently.

In humans, exercise improves what scientists call "executive function," the set of abilities that allows you to select behavior that's appropriate to the situation, inhibit inappropriate behavior and focus on the job at hand in spite of distractions. Executive function includes basic functions like processing speed, response speed and working memory, the type used to remember a house number while walking from the car to a party.

UK Snatches Up Four Million DS

Gamers across the pond have proven their love for the Nintendo DS to the tune of 4 million dual-screen handhelds sold. The combined sales of the original Nintendo DS and the Nintendo DS Lite crossed the four mil threshold recently, according to European sales watchers Chart Track.

More impressive? That some 25% of DS owners in the UK have purchased the original Brain Age, known as Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? over there. Another half-million have snapped up the sequel, all but confirming that Dr. Josef Rich's Dental Training will be a massive success when it's released next year.

UK DS sales hit 4 million [Gamespot]

It's Nintendogs Meets Brain Age

Brain Age 2 Goes On Tour

Nintendo Shows How Greek Advertising Is Done (With Sexy Nurses)

The first rule of Greek game advertising: do not serve your target market meals culled fresh from the innards of a freshly slaughtered goat, regardless of whether the dish is merely implied to have been harvested from said carcass. The second rule: hire a team of pleasantly attractive models in crisp, clean cotton nurse get-ups, then have them hit the beach for sun, fun, and a second round of brain massaging Nintendo-designed exercises.

It's fairly simple to follow the laws of effective marketing in Greece, at least as demonstrated by this recent promo event for Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day. Four of these faux nurses pounded sand at a Greek beach in the name of lowering the native brain age. The results were of course, extremely sexy and satisfyingly smart.

Η Nintendo εξορμα στις παραλίες... [Nintendo of Greece, thanks Agapitos!]

The June 29 New York Times Crossword sought to test readers' mental acuity with a question about a mental acuity-testing video game.

58 Across: Nintendo game with exercises for mental acuity.
Answer: Brain Age

Now that says something about Nintendo's drive into popular culture.

Jessica Alba Has A Brain Age Of 82

Brain Age 2 Impressions

More Brain Age in Europe

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