Brain Games

Some popular brain training games:
Brain Age
Brain Age 2
Brain Boost: Beta Wave
Brain Boost: Alpha Wave
Big Brain Academy
Right-Brain, Left Brain
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By ♣₪Vincent₪♣ on Mar 14, 2009

I think there's a game for Nintendo DS, for adults, it's supposed to "exercise" your brain.

There's a book called something like "Everything Bad for You Is Really Good." Among other things, the author argues that video games do help out with certain mental skills, like keeping track of multiple things simultaneously.

But I don't think you can just sit around playing video games and hope that makes your mind more agile. Do a variety of things: read books, fiction and nonfiction, maybe even join a book club, play chess and other games like that, build something, go to museums. You know the drill . . . .

Oh, listening to classical music, particularly Mozart, supposedly improves people's abilities on tests, but it's temporary — if they listen to the music and immediately take the test, they do a bit better.
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By TaDa on Mar 14, 2009

command and conquer generals with the zero hour expansion pack on brutal….especially the last GLA mission against the USA.

All the "challenge" missions keep you going for ages and ages(thats on the zero hour pack.)
You choose a general that is specialized in its own tactic and fight against other generals that are specialized in thier own tactic.

It is the little things that make it heaps of fun…like the motorbikes from the GLA team….you can make one sniper at a time, but if you put him on a motorbike…just make him ~move~ onto it and the original rider will get off…..because he is a stealth unit and the motor bike can go pretty much wherever you want it to on land, he becomes a fast moving spy. ect.
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By fatsamcamera on Mar 14, 2009

Go (wei qi) or chess may increase brain functions. As for most video games… I feel many just don't have the depth to actually develop the brain. Most RTS games require just "farm" "build" and "battle" the more men you can stream to the enemies camp and block his production… The faster you build and produce the more likely you are to win, I see them more as a race game. Games like Total War Medieval or Rome… may have more of a strategy component because the game is dependent on tactical positioning. There is an indie game company called Magitech that makes a game called "Strength and Honour" I feel it may also help increase thinking… it's kinda like Total War but less eye candy and can run on a laptop. But even these games… have their limits… The artificial intelligence of a computer isn't quite up to what humans are capable of. Until a game can learn from it's own mistakes and compensate against your weaknesses… computer gaming will have its limits.
Read Sun Tzu's Art of War and Analects of Confucius… their teachings can be translated to real world situations. such as: Sun Tzu; Bing Fa (The Art of War)—"The ruler cannot mobilize the army out of personal anger. The general cannot engage in battle because of personal frustration. When it is advantageous, move; when not advantageous, stop. Anger can revert to happiness, annoyance can revert to joy, but the vanquished state cannot be revived, the dead cannot be brought back to life." (I translate this to:Think before you act or worse, before you react. If you have a girlfriend or a wife… this may help you think twice before you get stuck in the dog house.)
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By Darren J on Mar 14, 2009