Dr. Kawashima goes mobile with Namco Bandai brain game

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Dec 12th 2007 3:00AM

Floating head doctor Ryuta Kawashima has once again been called upon to lend his expertise and disembodied features to a brain training game, this time for mobile phones. CVG reports that Namco Bandai's Brain Coach with Dr. Kawashima will use a "scientifically proven series of fun brain training challenges" to exercise and activate several parts of your brain, most likely the ones that shut down whn u rite a txt msg to ur palz.

Brain Coach has only been announced for Japan so far, but given the popular trend kicked off by Nintendo's Brain Training and its intelligent ilk (almost all of it featuring Kawashima), it's unlikely to stay there for very long. Kawashima's constant presence in the genre practically makes him the mental Madden.

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Tags: Brain-Age, Brain-Coach, Brain-Training, BrainAge, Kawashima, Mobile, Namco-Bandai, NamcoBandai

Reader Comments (6)

I wonder why mobile gaming hasn't caught on in the states like it has in Japan. Is it Japan's better phones? Our bigger emphasis on PC and console gaming? Maybe we don't have enough free time to play around with cell phone games?

I've tried, I really have. Even Tetris, of all things, could not get me to spend more than about 30 seconds playing with my cell phone. Tetris!

Bah...I guess my trusty ol' DS will have to come through when I need my portable gaming fix.

I could definitely see this as a huge success on phones.

But only because it managed to build its reputation as a very unique "game" on the DS.

I didn't think much of cell phone games until I played Doom RPG. Very impressive.

Nice to see I'll be able to get this stuff on a "mobile" platform. I was getting sick of needing to find a team of weightlifters I need to move my DS Lite around...