Any mother can tell you that video games rot your mind. Sooner or later, junior will tire of these games and want to steal real cars, kill real aliens, rape and pillage real neighborhoods. But what is mother is wrong? What if video games actually
improve your mind? Well, that is the pitch Nintendo will try for new video games targeting
Boomers, not their grandchildren. The games, called
Brain Age: Train your Brain in Minutes a Day and
Big Brain Academy are already popular in Europe and Japan. Based on the work of a Japanese neuroscientist and author, the games include reading and math exercises intended to stimulate the brain of adults. Each copy has already sold more than a million copies.
Marketing Blurb feels unqualified to challenge or substantiate the claim for these boomer videos. We can say, however, it is incredibly fun to race cars over bystanders, and kill toothy drooling aliens.
Advertising Age has more.
Photo Credit: Nintendo
I just want to say that i think video games are good for the development of a child's brain. First of all video games help children focus better at accomplishing a particular task. This task could not just involve video games. It could also involve solving a hard math problem or an important decision. Video games also provide a form of a stress reliever. If a child is stressed out, playing video games is a good way of calming that child down. The child will get into the game and not be as concerned with the stress he had before. The last way i feel video games are important in the development of children is that video games such as Halo or James Bond make the player think about developing a strategy to beat the game. It makes the gamer use his or her brain in order to win. Using your brain is essential in everyday life no matter what you plan on doing. Some people might deem Halo or Bond a violent game because of the use of guns and killing, but it can't be proved that just because a child plays a violent video game he is going to act it out in real life. It could just be a pyschological problem, nobody knows.
Posted by: Joe Higgins | April 4, 2006 3:18 PM | Permalink to Comment