2006 · Educational · Puzzle
Mind Quiz
Mind Quiz is a brain-training game several mini-games divided into four categories: Calculation, Reflex, Judgment, and Memory. Players take a Brain Age Test, receive a grade from A+ to E, and can track progress through training and challenge modes, with results shown as percentages and letter grades.
- Released
- 14 September 2006
- Platforms
- Nintendo DSPlayStation Portable
- Genres
- EducationalPuzzle
- Developers
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- Publishers
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- Modes
- Single-player
- Themes
- Educational
- Country
- Japan
- Age ratings
- ESRB E
About
Mind Quiz, also known as Mind Quiz: Exercise Your Brain or Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach (Nounenrei: Nou Stress Kei Atama Scan in Japan), is a mental training game for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable. It is similar to Nintendo's Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! It involves playing different training exercises to measure and improve particular parts of the player's brain, such as one's brain age and its brain stress degree.
Keywords
- brain training
- mind quiz
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
After entering the Training Mode, the player is asked his first question. When the game is finished, a report card will show time, rate %, and letter grade, along with a comment from the teacher.
Reception
The title received mixed reviews; garnering 51.20% on GameRankings. GameSpot gave the game 4.9/10 (Poor), stating that "Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach is a shameless clone of Nintendo's brain-training DS game, Brain Age" and that "This game isn't good enough to serve as a game for Brain Age players who are looking for more of the same because it's too similar yet too shallow to entertain that crowd. If you fall into the group of people who haven't played Brain Age, you should go with that one rather than waste your time on a pretender like Mind Quiz."
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Collections4 collections
Platform libraries
- PlayStation Portable gamesReleased
Reception and records
- Controversial games2000s
Publishers
- Sega gamesDeveloped or published by Sega
- Ubisoft games: 2000–2009
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