So I bought Brain Age at Toys R Us on Wednesday morning.  It's fun in an odd way...who knew doing speed math could be fun?  Anyway, in Training mode, you start out with 4 games - Calculations x20, Calculations x100 (where you just solve simple addition, subtraction and multiplication problems in a list as fast as you can), Readin Aloud (where you read a passage from a book as fast as you can...oh, but w/o voice regconition, you use the honor system) and Low to High (a list of numbers pops up briefly, then you have to tap where they were from lowest to highest).  These are all fun despite how lame they sound.  Since I've played for 3 days, I unlocked 2 more games, and there are a few more that can be unlocked.

Next is the Brain Age section.  You get 3 random games which determines your brain age.  So far as I've noticed, I haven't gotten any of the games in training besides the Calculations x20, so I was caught off guard w/ at least one new game each time I tested my brain age.  The first time I tested my brain age....I got a 69!  Yes, tired old brain....I'm pretty bad at this....I blame this on the stupid Connect Maze - it's just a big old mess, it takes me forever to find the letters....anyway, yesterday I got a 46 and today I got a 42.  Better, but still pretty far from my age...Also, I keep forgetting that I should say Blu instead of Bah-lew in the Stroop Test....

And finally there's the Sudoku, which is really well done!  You get to write little numbers (9...one for each number) to narrow it down, or just one giant number if you know what the number is.  It really is a lot better than playing it on paper.  It recognizes what you write, if it confuses the 3 or 5, you can tap it again and it'll switch.  It shows your time and adds a time penalty for each wrong answer (up to 5).  The demo handed out 20 minute penalties, I don't know if that's the case here since I've since changed it to not giving you your mistakes right away to avoid the penalty.  The only thing I wished it had was a list of numbers so that I could cross out the number once I've found all 9 of a number.

The game has 4 save slots, my nephew started one (lol, his age was 80 then 36.  He's pretty upset about it   But he likes it a lot.  You can compare your results in the graph section.  I'm better at most of the training games, he's better at most of the brain age games (like the dreaded connect maze, lol)

Oh and it seems random, but sometimes the game asks you to draw stuff, then you compare it to the game's pictures.  Mine come out really funny (It asked me to draw a hippo!!!), but my Koala came out reallllly cute.  I wish I would have taken a picture so you could all see my mediocre drawing talents...  So yeah, it's fun all around!  I think I like the Brain Training series!

Speaking of training, these are hilarious!  I especially like the Animal Crossing one, you have to admit, the game is materialistic... http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=94776

So while at Toys R Us, I picked up a little reserve card for New Super Mario Bros.  I'm really looking forward to that game a lot.  I think I'll pop in Yoshi's Island for GBA in anticipation of it

Last but not least, there are rumors of a NiGHTS into Dreams remake coming to the Rev....I would be one deliriously happy girl if that were true.  Seriously, they didn't want to make another game, but this would be perfect, they could just bring it on over as is, with as little or as much change as they'd like!  And you can even hold the Revmote like a cute little paper airplane....wouldn't that be cute?!?
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2006/04/20/nights-sega-saturn-classic-gets-remade-for-revolution.htm

Yeah, and with that I'll go to bed with crossed fingers and happy dreams!  Good nite everyone!