Measuring My Brain with Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo DS

The year is 2005, your Mom got you this game alongside Nintendogs for Nintendo DS
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[@RTGame]

This video proves that I have a brain

[@CARBONATED_SO-DA]

Hi RT 🥺(?)

[@minty.5438]

no brainer

[@fayalaya]

Can't fool me RT

[@mrrainbowbananaking]

That's not saying much

[@Thinkn99]

Whatever you say rt

[@grimmtreasuries3378]

Memory unlocked: getting a brain age of like 50 at 9

[@llrealnewsll2917]

I got 80 at age 8

[@KicksPregnantWomen]

lol old

[@bunille]

I got 23 when I was around 6. Doubt I can get it again, though. The only one I struggled with was the one where people walked in and out of houses.

[@jamiegreenberg8476]

i remember i got like 40 when i was 8 bc i didnt know how to do multiplication

[@livispuzzled]

@@llrealnewsll2917 SAME OHMYGOD

[@user-xd5pp2ts8p]

fun fact about this game: if your brain age is too high at the beginning, you enter a secret battle where Dr. Kawashima’s head starts firing missiles at you

[@lovedella6483]

please tell me this is true...

[@PunishedKrab]

Can i see that? It might be fun…

[@theivoryguy2476]

Is this real

[@SporkSlayer]

This explains the assist trophy.

[@J0hnzie]

There's also a weird plot about the Communist Chinese invading, and a dead guy on the game-over screen.

[@boredmusic4302]

There’s a reason why RT was only called the “Drift King” back in college.

[@hp1221WTF]

he drifted right into middle age of his brain

[@OriginalGameteer]

This joke must never die The Drift King must live!

[@kat45788]

He was also called the rhythm master

[@monkeyblade99]

D r i v i n g s p e e d

[@AifaOgami]

but he was called the math king back in high school!

[@ostrichman8034]

This video is bringing back repressed memories

[@magicalgh0st]

As someone with learning disabilities this game really fuckin knocked my self esteem as a kid🤣😭

[@chocoroons]

omg same i played this so damn much as a kid lmao

[@noashaham5438]

Magical Ghost right?? Like I never even heard of this before but just watching this video was depressing

[@ravenwraith1017]

What do you mean? This game was great. The sudoku alone was worth it. …or maybe I’m just an ASD weirdo. Maybe that explains why I have fond memories of this. I can’t be in my right mind if I fondly look back on an educational “game”…

[@mysticalhero2460]

@@ravenwraith1017 I also have fond memories playing this even though back then I didn't know how to play sudoku and sucked at everything else

[@MoonSt0n3]

RT’s brain is like the galaxy brain from the memes, but it’s filled with Meteors

[@fbivan2771]

so his head is full of rocks

[@abloodcorpse3318]

Punctured*

[@manowa3395]

The meteors are bouncing around his skull like a windows screen saver.

[@alexnoman1498]

It's a proper galaxy, then! :D

[@GlitchTechV1]

@@manowa3395 when it hits a planet he forms a thought

[@dampstone7679]

First it was Maya, and now a certified Doctor is diagnosing RT with Old Person. It was a good run Daniel, but come on now off to the grave with you

[@RTGame]

I can't wait to die

[@gauthamkannan819]

@@RTGame like original like Mii (I want die)

[@bonnibloop_]

@@RTGame mood

[@ChargeQM]

I Want Die was RT from the future all along.

[@DeeSnow97]

@@RTGame Why wait when you can just commit sudoku

[@tryxthesalt5264]

Alternate title: “Realizing I can’t draw the number 8 with Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo DS.”

[@140kittykat]

I have Brain Age 2, and it sucks about as much. You kinda have to exaggerate some of the numbers to get them to register

[@Dogman_35]

Does writing count as drawing?

[@GNVS300]

@NathanTheNintendoFan2012 18? 28?

[@GNVS300]

Mine was trying to say the number 3 in voice calculations

[@savemeimanobodylostonline4279]

Alternate Title: RTGame not realizing the Erase function existed

[@HaxTF2]

50% of wrong answers are the games fault 50% are RT saying 2+2=5

[@yelfog]

He answered 4×1 as 1 and stated he got it right lol

[@abigaillilac1370]

Okay Winston

[@scrungybingus285]

a good 20% is him writing his eights like ∞

[@krisnaputramaulidan2843]

but, 2+2 IS 5. what you mean?

[@Derpy-qg9hn]

@@krisnaputramaulidan2843 i thought it was fish

[@TheOriginalEwan]

As a child, I didn’t know his name, only ‘brain training’, so to solve this, I just called it ‘floating geometry head’

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

I mean that's 100% accurate, if people were gonna know what you were talking about anyway then they probably did

[@Winnie-ri4zu]

Bruh i remember this game as only "brain training" dr kawashima is totally wiped from my memory.

[@CMDR_Ryan]

@@Winnie-ri4zu I just remembered the game being called Brain Age. Might be a sort of localisation thing where the name was changed for different regions.

[@1Holbytla]

Lol 😝 I like that! I probably would’ve, too. I forgot his name was (doctor) Ryuta Kawashima, and I don’t know how I remembered. Also, my copys label from here in North America says: “Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!”

[@titch8948]

I'm only 17, I should not be achieving such levels of nostalgia yet.

[@jacobh.2973]

I'm 15 and indeed I shouldn't be either

[@firebirdade1409]

Literally same in both departments

[@pirokka9353]

S(h)ame

[@dannyishere4006]

You can be nostalgic about anything ever since you had your first memory.

[@bezmagica]

I'm 16 and neither should I

[@republicofsingapore177]

I love how he says "Dr Kawashima.." like a doctor who is your friend

[@succmeister7808]

he fuckin p l e a d s

[@sentinelstorm487]

Ya know they called him the Brain King in college, his GPA was astronomical!

[@EeveeRealSenpai]

Ya know, they called him the Drift King back in college!

[@sentinelstorm487]

@Jo Amon Look bucko I got to this video 5 seconds after uploading, it was the fastest witticism I could come up with going on the title alone

[@shari5564]

The Brain Daddy

[@syrupsandwichhhh]

They called him the RT Smar-T back in college.

[@berniechan1517]

Lol nice one

[@aransfilms9949]

@Muntaj Gill they just don’t call him.

[@splattyfatty]

@@aransfilms9949 *Destruction 100*

[@HonnePerkele]

*Who would win?* Drift daddy vs Smar-T-Da-ddy

[@blackgayman]

@Muntaj Gill i heard they call him call me kevin in the south west

[@futsurepolaris6304]

I had been searching for “The Cask of Amontillado” for YEARS but never remembered the name of it. What an insane way to finally find it, in a video of a ds game.

[@twitchyb9950]

Seeing as the subject matter of the story is death by immurement, I wonder if “The Call of Cthulhu” would also show up in this game for kids.

[@NightmareBlade10]

@@twitchyb9950 Well they had us read the Cask of Amontillado in middle school, which I think is a bit too much stimulus for a 13 year old.

[@camdenewing7501]

“Our child is incredibly gifted in intelligence and reasoning.” The child:

[@incognitoburrito6020]

They still can be honestly, the brain age game is pretty much only a measure of how good you are at the brain age game

[@Valsorayu]

@@incognitoburrito6020 A few of those "games" such as the word colour and the word-list memorisation ones have been used in psychology to give a numeral representation to certain cognitive abilities. (one would be done as a control and then others as experiments)

[@internetguy7319]

​@@ValsorayuI do not trust any attempt to accurately and numerically assign worth to a human's brain.

[@ChargeQM]

RT: answers 4 x 1 with 1 "I got that right!" Pls.

[@user-zz3sn8ky7z]

He's got a point, even if you write 1 four times - 1 1 1 1, they're still 1 Edit : I appreciate your concern, but I'm not actually unable to do basic math

[@nascentspace]

@@user-zz3sn8ky7z you think that 1+1+1+1=4???

[@ohitsrusher842]

@@user-zz3sn8ky7z You add the 1s though

[@HybridSymbiote]

@@user-zz3sn8ky7z it's not exponents, it's multiplication. 4x1 or 1x4 equals 4, where as 4¹ or 1⁴ would just be 1.

[@GavinGaile]

@@user-zz3sn8ky7z you play Sketchful by any chance? 🤣

[@SunGoldenLand]

Oh i remember having a 42 year old brain when i was 12.

[@chaostheory2077]

I remember geting an 80 year old score at the age of 9

[@SunGoldenLand]

@@chaostheory2077 I feel like there is some kind of pattern here.

[@writershard5065]

See this is the weird thing. Aren't older people generally considered wiser? I feel like a 42 year old would be far better organized and self actualized than a 12 year old.

[@Smoothbrain0]

@@writershard5065 your brain starts to get less active around the age of 25 and beyond. So if you have a brain age of 25 that is amazing

[@yourlocalchaoticneutral3138]

@@Smoothbrain0 I remember my gran having a brain age of 30 when I finally got her to play it, I want to still be that smart when I'm 80

[@briarpelt2333]

"The Cask of Amontillado"??? Yes, THAT is an appropriate story for children! This game just got a little more cursed

[@Mystery-Wolf]

I don’t get it.

[@ConnanTheCivilized]

Funny comment, however I don’t believe it’s harmful for children to know seemingly ‘nice’ people can be dangerous or deceitful. Stranger danger and all that?

[@ConnanTheCivilized]

That story was required reading when I was in 9th grade, and the school I attended banned many a book.

[@briarpelt2333]

@@ConnanTheCivilized I meant like elementary school kids. And my main objection is that Poe's writing style is better suited to a higher reading level (9th grade makes sense); little kids aren't going to get much out of any of Poe's works except for some horrifying imagery. There are more straightforward ways to scare kids into not trusting strangers.

[@StickMaster500]

RT is such a big brain that Dr. Kawashima has to go into early retirement so RT can replace him and test you how much of a boomer you are

[@blackgayman]

@@syrupsandwichhhh you dont have to say it again we saw in your first comment lol

[@MartinPurathur]

How can RT judge that if he is a boomer himself?

[@Mister-Bones]

The floating head is I want die instead of doctor kawashima

[@doubledownpleasegosubtotte4274]

Rt is old

[@thefunnyaerialman]

@@MartinPurathur I mean, it takes one to know one, right?

[@zarnox3071]

There's a TAS of this game that's really something else.

[@daniellewilson8527]

What does TAS stand for?

[@masonsachs9681]

tool assisted speedrun

[@porguinturtle3854]

@@masonsachs9681 those damn robots are taking our speedruns

[@PunishedKrab]

@@porguinturtle3854 yep, this is the beginning of the robot takeover in 2069

[@jowysw]

@@PunishedKrab ...nice?

[@uncomfortablekid8872]

the "I'll remember kill" amidst the little sentences he was trying to make

[@SnoFitzroy]

And then he wouldn't write it in the squares so that one didn't register dklghsdfhgksdgsdkjghskdfh

[@subg9165]

@@SnoFitzroy yeah it was really annoying me when he wasn't using the boxes that are there specifically for writing the letters in

[@Meteorite_Shower]

@@subg9165 Honestly, I doubt it would've mattered. I remember playing this game and having the same issue of writing a K and the game going, 'ah, you wrote an X!' no matter how inside the boxes I was.

[@Lisa-fp6pm]

16:45 love how it started as a memory game and then just turned into simlish

[@adamator88]

Lmao i was just playing sims

[@sidjohnson2168]

As in the words of the legend himself: “IT’S BIG BRAIN TIME.”

[@birdcar7808]

I used to play this all the time as a kid and it freaked me out when it wished me a happy birthday on my birthday lmao

[@Lemchi217]

This game is so nostalgic even though I never played it because I was terrified of the head man ( and also because my sister had the only DS)

[@PunishedKrab]

Wasn’t there a sequel to this game?

[@Lemchi217]

@@PunishedKrab Yes there is a sequel

[@BunnyStarTelevision]

I have the math and acting one but not this original one

[@genniegey4391]

Me as a seven year old child when Dr. Kawashima tells me my brain age is 73: 👁👄👁

[@natemontgomery3937]

It honestly amazes me how RT’s amazing commentary can even make a game like this entertaining to watch

[@RTGame]

Aw thank you

[@insertobligatoryreferenceh489]

RT must’ve gotten desperate after that Ace Attorney stream.

[@emmettmcnally740]

Rt: Literally was going to be an English teacher Also RT: Doesn't know how to pronounce Amontillado, as if it isn't an Edgar Allan Poe staple

[@kity1081]

ah mhoon tea yado

[@emmettmcnally740]

@@kity1081 it's not even an accent thing! He just...

[@meggycrystal99]

Tbf he never said he’d be an English speech teacher.... (but I was also surprised he didn’t seem to recognize it)

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

People from parts of the world that aren't near Spanish-speaking areas are less likely to be able to pronounce Spanish words. Ireland isn't gonna be horrible because Spain isn't too far away, but my grandmother from New Zealand literally says "tortilla" like "Godzilla." Knowing Asian languages is much more helpful, and therefore common, over there.

[@herosmith5662]

@@Nat_the_Chicken But... correct me if I'm wrong, isn't Amontillado Italian?

[@harmonicaman4782]

Watching him do the math section makes me feel like an idiot because I take at least 6 seconds for most of the questions

[@chalkycherries]

hello aph america pfp

[@emrahalien2972]

dont worry I take mins.

[@buddyart-]

"My brain age has been halved in the span of two hours!" And with your donations, that number can be even lower

[@sheevpalpatine1105]

alternate title: elderly irish man yells at japanese neuroscientist

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*"Just ogle grant ruby tomb fuzz" should be a band name.*

[@emilyc9467]

The only thing Dr. Kawashima taught me was how to activate my *PREFRONTAL CORTEX*

[@firockfinion3326]

Dr. Kawashima's battle royale: Read this passage in 30 seconds or less to get an assault rifle. If you don't, then do not bother begging for your life, because while God may have mercy on you, Dr. Kawashima will not.

[@maxwellweiss9849]

I looked at my old DS and I saw a picture of 6 year old me on my Brain Training game on my Nintendo DSi XL. I remember all the times he wouldn’t register me drawing the number 6

[@ashtar3876]

He wouldn't register 3 because i did bottom to top. I think he registers how you're inputting it, not how it looks at the end.

[@TCStink3]

@@ashtar3876 Dr, Kawashima doesn’t register *WRONG*

[@ashtar3876]

@@TCStink3 i do top to bottom now anyways

[@Superior345]

Legendary game

[@logana.p3964]

They called him the Brain King back in college

[@belugabop9344]

no, they didnt

[@kablutoxyz]

On occasion my family has pancakes for dinner. We’re financially stable it’s nothing weird

[@pinkpixie8686]

pancakes are delicious

[@rapogirl1391]

In my house we sometimes have Waffles and Bacon.

[@flippisni]

Sometimes, on rare occasions, I'll make pasta. Generally for lunch and dinner

[@Pollicina_db]

My family has pancakes every friday, it’s a tradition, now we can’t live without them

[@IDontReallyWantAYoutubeHandle]

5:37 The reason this is driving speed is because this exercise is really hard for humans to do. However, chimps are really good at this exercise, only needing like a second to see everything and then inputting everything, since they have a photographic short term memory. I recommend watching Vsauce's In the Minefield about this, it's really interesting haha

[@TeratosHarz]

man, this is nostalgic ...

[@motokuchoma]

just ogle grab ruby tomb fuzz thanks rt, i will remember these words until my grave

[@Dee_Snuts27]

"I'll remember kill", of course you would dan

[@ajfizzlesticks5423]

C’mon, gramps, let’s get you to the retirement home.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Anyone else feel they made sure to program this to always make you old to trick you into playing a lot? Like 'Fuck you polygon man, I'm not old!"

[@yumiendercat3685]

The floating head man terrifies me as much as RT does

[@baronsionis6855]

This is the Brain Age arc and honestly i'd say its definitely one of the most satisfying arcs in the RTGame saga.

[@mightykingwario]

the most powerful weapon: brain

[@zardus8352]

Brains

[@rach5233]

unlocked memories of playing this everyday as a kid and it starting my obsession with sudoku

[@Zen_Note]

In germany this game was called "Brain Jogging" and I do find that thought delightful.

[@Emerald-Fluffie]

4x1=1 RT: “what? I got that one!” Oh no… you poor lad

[@Nitrinoxus]

You know how your signature always looks awful when you need to sign for a parcel on a tablet? This game's basically that, but with math.

[@emrahalien2972]

No i learned that when every teacher told me they couldn't read it.. in every class.. every year.

[@Nitrinoxus]

@@emrahalien2972 What a coincidence, same here. To this day, whenever I try writing something in cursive, it spontaneously combusts.

[@lalaulaulau]

I’m 100% convinced that that copy is mine. Like that’s literally how I used to write my name when I was younger, tf?

[@somemate1050]

Bs

[@L-sillybrained]

did you sell it?

[@lalaulaulau]

@@L-sillybrained yeah

[@TrueBark]

@@lalaulaulau hope u are doing better than 80 now :^)

[@drawnwithlove3499]

I'm sorry Lauren

[@MrsMster]

The inputs on games from the mid 00s are just awful at detecting numbers. This genuinely reminds me of Professor Layton and the Curious Village's bad inputs which is comical, but Brain Training is taking the piss 😂

[@SnoFitzroy]

there are TASs for Brain Age which do intricate drawings (like more detailed than Kawashima's of the Koala and Kangaroo) to fool it into gettng the right answer lmfaoooo

[@MrsMster]

@@SnoFitzroy I was more referring to the shared awfulness at number inputs thinking a different number had been put in, but that sounds even more hilarious 😂

[@COOLMCDEN]

@@MrsMster I'm happy to have played the mobile version of curious village where you just type the letters/numbers.

[@MrsMster]

You lucky bastard 😂 The DS one is comedic. Had my copy since maybe Pandora's Box or Lost Future was released in the UK. as I said, it's comedic how bad it is 😂

[@COOLMCDEN]

@@MrsMster I highly recommend the mobile version, not only do you not have to worry about wether of not the game can read your inputs but it is also in HD.

[@samboi123]

The Secondhand Saga of DS-family games begins

[@brody2k]

Ahh, Germ buster memories are coming back. The nostalgia! I refuse to cry because of Dr kawashimas brain training, you'll not make me RT.

[@shanepower9201]

I would play germ buster all day, that was my shit

[@1Holbytla]

Me, too. So fun.

[@rozhsoh-muh]

i loved this game when i was a kid. sadly, my ds died (RIP cause of death: orange juice; culprit: brother) but it still lived, i bet i'd go play this right now

[@riftykai]

This lad is making my accent Irish, he’s infecting me with his voice speech

[@SnoFitzroy]

Ass opposed to nose speech?

[@Swefferre]

I don’t understand why people dislike this, this is just quality content

[@blackmailz]

Alternate title : Dr Kawashima judges my brain

[@SurenaGLDN]

I forgot this game existed. And I wish I didn’t remember

[@FlfyCats17]

I remember playing this game because it came free with my Nintendo DSi. All I'd ever do is give incorrect answers on purpose, and make fun of the floating head , who I nicknamed "CTG" for "Creepy teacher guy". Every time I see CTG as an Assist Trophy in Smash, I internally scream because he knows what I did and I cannot run. Just seeing him in this video makes me very afraid.

[@bonbin6053]

Game: 4x1 RTGame “1… wait I got that one right! Why did it say I was wrong”

[@2230yt]

**points at you** “Old brain old brain!”

[@Viper-dz2kw]

It is so fascinating to me that the majority of the world knows this game at “Brain Training” and pretty much only the US uses “BrainAge”

[@miguelpelia2396]

RT’s pancake story is actually really cute

[@Nitrinoxus]

And remember: *Just ogle-grab ruby tomb-fuzz!*

[@ajb538]

RT saying the words out loud trying to remember them sounded like a stroke. But it was relatable

[@baby_bear]

This reminded me of when I was like 7 and didn’t know how to multiply

[@irok1]

That was an emotional journey. The audience cheered with that final Brain Age

[@Slacker420]

I just watched the stream vod last night im so glad I get the highlights now

[@The__Interloper]

This game really reeks of existential dread for me I don't know why. Ever since I had this on the DS as a child I didn't even know what existential dread was I just knew something felt really off.

[@piculra7441]

You're focusing a lot on speed, rather than getting the right answer. Actually, the German education system used to make the same mistake (Edit: To clarify, this affected how exams were graded, not just how subjects were taught.), which lead to a certain student getting graded very harshly; Albert Einstein.

[@bustavonnutz]

Used to?

[@crampedturtle]

So the current American education system?

[@ArtzyZero]

I think most education systems focus on speed more than getting the answer right, teachers have too many topics to cover and not enough time to make sure every student understands. If even one student isn't grasping something they'll still move on, sadly.

[@IamaPERSON]

@@ArtzyZero pretty much. I was one of those people in middle school, and while I'm partially glad I wasn't held back, I still feel like I should've been.

[@ArtzyZero]

@@IamaPERSON In high school I was put in the learning department to catch up on school work after having two weeks off ill, I never left. The support teacher was the one to realise I had ADHD though, so I don't regret going into the LD but they didn't really do much else to help with normal school work. I left school with no qualifications as a result.

[@kwen9826]

You’ve unlocked a childhood memory of mine. Thank you RT

[@seansean792]

"I'll remember kill." There's so much I could say about this statement. 😂

[@lilkat6314]

I think I used to play this game on my DS when I was a kid. I had so much fun with it XD. When I had any problems with math (specifically multiplication), it legit helped me a lot. I couldn't for the life of me remember the damn name of this game, but I remembered the dude's face lol. This gives me such nostalgia. Thanks RT 😄😄!

[@tokaygecko8]

I loved it when RT started speaking sims

[@The.nib69]

The literally perfect ending adds to the spectacular quality this video exudes 😂 such nostalgia, such GRACE

[@hongkongdad928]

14:46 I’d like to point out this is already kinda a thing, in the switch version they put in a weekly tournament that puts everyone’s brain scores against eachothers to see which country is the best or something like that. Mad stuff

[@firetruckkid6090]

All I learned from this is RT has messy writing according to Nintendo

[@GhostsOfThings]

Pancakes were one of the only dinners my Dad would cook growing up so I too have a special place in my heart for dinner pancakes.

[@DrakeValos]

Man that takes me back, played those games regularly for a few years…

[@Glueeater26]

I remember when I would get bored of Pokémon and road trips. And this was all I had. Thanks for the memories

[@TG-bl9kr]

I love how sassy Kawashima is sometimes, good stuff

[@kalistavinatelly]

i have dyslexia and these tests that ''tracks your speed'' is my nightmare

[@pharoahcaraboo9610]

that description took me tf out bc this and nintendogs were the first games i got w my ds

[@michealdoyle5571]

That story about the pancakes was wonderful. I love hearing little anecdotes like that from people.

[@brody7714]

Wow. I played this game a lot as a kid. Never once saw rocket speed!

[@deathlytired3648]

…Holy fuck seeing his face brought back too many memories holy-

[@ohapqity]

I haven’t seen this game in such a long time... memories and nostalgic hits hard

[@haybrookeband]

After watching a few streams and videos, I have mastered the art of predicting which parts will be added into the video.

[@ameme8277]

this man scares me i can't handle his all-knowingness

[@seangilmore_]

I loved this game. Turning my DS to be like a book made me feel smart

[@procrastinatorprofessional1035]

Omg, I used to love this game so much. Childhood memories have been dredged up-

[@craneoflores]

Wow this teleports me back. Ngl now I kind of want to play again

[@unitoftemp]

I remember that memefest TASbot run from AGDQ a few years ago.

[@pluto3194]

"I'll remember kill" RT You're scaring me

[@marekpiekarski2672]

Bringing back ancient memories here RT

[@Sebeats98]

This summaries my experience with this game so well