Brain Age

Daily-training software sold games to non-gamers and drove Nintendo's blue-ocean DS strategy.

Released 2005 Developer Nintendo SPD Publisher Nintendo Platform Nintendo DS Genre Edutainment Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Brain Age inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Numeric Score ~~1972~~Persistent High-Score Table ~~1979~~Direct Touch Manipulation ~~2005~~

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