Postcard Review: Brain Age Concentration Training

(Editor’s note: In the Postcard Review, members of the Pixelitis staff write small, easily digestible reviews big enough to ‘fit on a postcard’ – hence the title. It can be about the whole experience or just a small piece of the pie. No scores needed.)

"Brain Age Concentration Training is certainly one of the most difficult games to quantify in a review, postcard size or not. While it retains the key elements of gaming: the accomplishment of a certain goal within certain parameters, it is not what one would call a traditional game.

Brain researcher Dr. Ryuta Kawashima has constructed an interactive medium in which to train your brain and (supposedly) keep it healthy. He does so by creating exercises that work out the parts of your brain that control your “working” memory, thereby improving your ability to concentrate. So, with all of these exercises, can Brain Age be considered a game, or is it more like homework?" – Tom Farndon