Exercise Your Gray Matter with the Latest Training

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The fastest growing genre in video games is "brain training," a genre no one had even heard of before last year. But it only takes one smash hit - in this case, Nintendo's "Brain Age" - to launch an armada of imitators.

Nintendo's rivals have tried to hop on the "Brain Age" bandwagon with copycats such as "Brain Boost," "Brain Genius," "Brain Juice," "Brain Challenge" and (for the sake of variety) "Mind Quiz." The only person who might need so many brain exercise games would be someone who was dumb enough to buy them all.

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Exercise Your Gray Matter with the Latest Training

The jury is still out on whether these games - consisting mostly of simple, rapid-fire math, logic and observation problems - really make you smarter. I have my doubts...

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