Train your brain in public

Posted Jul 3rd 2007 1:10PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Imports

Imagine an alternate universe in which arcades not only exist, but are still stocked with new games. Now imagine that one of the biggest and most impressive-looking units in the place is a brain training game. As you may have guessed, it's not an alternate universe! You know, because the coverage on this site is limited to just the one universe.

Minna de Kitaeru Zenno Training is an arcade brain training game released in late 2006 by Bandai Namco, created under the supervision of the smartest disembodied head we know, Dr. Ryuta Kawashima. Much like Brain Age, it uses a touch screen to present simple mathematical and logical tasks. But unlike Brain Age, Zenno Training is on a huge screen in the middle of a game center.

It's quite amazing how popular brain training has become! We wonder if Bandai Namco expects people to go back to the arcade every day for training. That would be so diabolical!

Tags: bandai, brain, brain age, brain training, BrainAge, BrainTraining, ds, ds lite, DsLite, kawashima, kitaeru, lite, namco, nintendo, noutore, training

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-03-2007 @ 1:40PM

hvnlysoldr said...

It prints money... Wait that's not a Nintendo system...

7-04-2007 @ 4:51AM

Wilerson said...

Japan *is* an alternate universe.

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