Japanese Doctors are recommending that old age pensioners play a few rounds of a brain training game on a Nintendo.
Nintendo's 'Brain Training for Adults' has proved to be a big hit in Japan already. Now even doctors are suggesting that it is a good way to exercise failing brainpower.
The game has a number and puzzles game that Nintendo says (and of course doctors now believe) can stimulate the brain and ward off dementia.
Nintendo has sold more than 3.34 million sales of the game since May 2005, which is operated with a plastic pen and touch pad on its DS console.
What's more, hospitals have even started putting Nintendo DS units in waiting rooms and
The overseas version of the game called 'Brain Age' will hit the US shops on April 17 and reach Europe by June.
Now, anyone saying gaming is not good?
Via: The Inquirer
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