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

[@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

[@Thiinkn]

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

[@ヒラガナ-e5d]

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!

[@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!”

[@republicofsingapore177]

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

[@succmeister7808]

he fuckin p l e a d s

[@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

[@titchelessar]

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.

[@misamagica]

I'm 16 and neither should I

[@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.

[@usernametaken017]

​@internetguy7319 assign worth ≠ measure cognitive ability

[@frog_goblin]

@@usernametaken017while technically true to say, the unfortunate reality is that the vast majority of cognitive measurements are done to numerically assign a human being some sort of worth. a high IQ means pretty much jack shit about your actual intellectual capabilities and instead is just used to gloat by people like the MENSA organization. there’s a lengthy history about pretty much all testing measurements like being inaccurate at best, and at their worst are geared to benefit white, middle-class people whether that bias was intentional or not. so much of what intelligence measuring/testing is based upon is eugenics theories. without even looking any deeper into it, just consider how people with less cognitive ability are, without fail, treated as pitiful or worthless by the general public. intelligence and specifically *measuring* intelligence in fake, “quantifiable” forms is just used to assign worth.

[@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.

[@GavsterGaime]

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

[@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.

[@Zeelu05]

I mean, the game isn’t really made for children explicitly

[@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

[@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

[@natemontgomery3937]

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

[@RTGame]

Aw thank you

[@genniegey4391]

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

[@buddyart-]

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

[@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

[@cjonesjr]

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

[@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.

[@misterbrick4276]

3:05 **enters the number 1 to the equation 4 times 1** “what I got that one”

[@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

[@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

[@zmslayer69]

This could be a great backhanded compliment.

[@logana.p3964]

They called him the Brain King back in college

[@belugabop9344]

no, they didnt

[@emilyc9467]

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

[@CarrierOfChaos617]

i had this game when i was like 8 and i thought the brains at 0:30 had lava in them so i never touched the game again

[@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

[@Superior345]

Legendary game

[@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!"

[@TeratosHarz]

man, this is nostalgic ...

[@baronsionis6855]

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

[@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.

[@pandaspangel]

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

[@Dee_Snuts27]

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

[@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.

[@motokuchoma]

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

[@rach5233]

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

[@yumiendercat3685]

The floating head man terrifies me as much as RT does

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@riftykai]

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

[@SnoFitzroy]

Ass opposed to nose speech?

[@arandommat]

​​​@@SnoFitzroy**Accidently learns ASL**

[@Swefferre]

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

[@laurenglover919]

Holy shit, I think that's my copy of this game. That's how I do my R's and my N's, and I remember being bothered by how blobby the end of the N came out. That is fucking surreal.

[@irok1]

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

[@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.

[@JasonVanished]

I wish he clicked on the things going by as his speed. The bike dinged, car honked, train whistled

[@1Holbytla]

🙂 Yes! The walking guy plays a bit of a Mario effect and the rocket makes “spacey” sound effects! I love little extra touches like these in games.

[@2230yt]

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

[@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

[@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 😄😄!

[@Nitrinoxus]

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

[@blackmailz]

Alternate title : Dr Kawashima judges my brain

[@baby_bear]

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

[@SurenaGLDN]

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

[@melitajay]

I lost my copy of this game somewhere and I like to think it's fallen into a crack in my house, waiting to be discovered long in the future like an accidental time capsule.

[@ameme8277]

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

[@firetruckkid6090]

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

[@deathlytired3648]

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

[@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.

[@pluto3194]

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

[@auk916]

I had to read the Cask of Amontillado a few weeks ago for English class, and it was in a book with a collection of short stories the school made to go through during the school year. It had a paragraph before the story explaining its background and Edgar Allen Poe, and the last sentence said something along the lines of the story being about a man unaware of his own murder. This led me to start reading with the thought that the main character, the murderer, was the one being murdered. I also didn't figure it out until the truth came forth from my English teacher the next day.

[@unitoftemp]

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

[@DrakeValos]

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

[@brody7714]

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

[@obsidion_flame3095]

This has activated deep locked away memories of this being one of 7 video games I could play when i was a child.

[@BierBart12]

Well, my autism made that stroop test(the words of colours in different colours than the word itself) so much slower for me, which was really interesting. I didn't know I had that problem after that, I just gave up

[@RiderLeangle2]

Can't help but notice the parts where he read "Fortunato I" as "Fortunato 1" got edited out. Also just saying that house with everyone going in and out... has to be a crack house... So many people coming and going, the people who started in the house don't care that even if they all leave a bunch of other people come in... something fishy is going on there...

[@Skrach4297]

We can all agree this guy would be good as a playable charcter in smash

[@melodyborg6164]

I was going to call you out for forgetting Tasmania in your drawing of Australia but Dr Kawashima forgot it too...

[@athenablade5172]

This triggered my nostalgia so much, I used to play this game a lot as a child! If you want to play more games like this but with funnier minigames, I recommend Big brain academy. It also measures your brain age but in kg so it was funnier to see the results

[@donutdownpour6959]

love the sheer relief in RT's voice when the final age appears on screen

[@kwen9826]

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

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*When is Dr. Kawashima getting added to Smash?*

[@ashtar3876]

I think his stage already is in lol

[@BlueMountain1992]

Disappointed this video wasn't called "making my brain ripped through the medium of Brain Training".

[@koryngalen6228]

I completely forgot about this game, thank you for unlocking a childhood memory!!

[@joshallaway]

Is it me or at 15:49 after he's into the counting a while, he turns American?

[@samgamblewhite8600]

The American accent is basically just an evolved Irish accent

[@SoggyCoffeeAddict]

I have to say, I have hand writing that even I cannot read myself if I'm not actively focusing on making out the words. But this game picked up perfectly on it, seems that the worse your penmanship is the better the game understands you

[@1Holbytla]

Man, I feel some of that. I used to write notes for my family and myself that none of us could read. I had to retrain myself to focus and print or write more clearly now. … and this game, is definitely quirky when it comes to understanding our answers, I think. Takes some getting to know it.

[@idothingssometimes8606]

The thing that I remember best from the countless hours I spent on this thing was how if you shouted insults at him in the main menu, the dude would glare at you. Also that he kept on calling 7 year old me old-

[@ilonaOakenshield]

I could SWEAR that RT was speaking Simlish at the ''Just ogle grab ruby tomb fuzz'' part

[@MultiMaya2002]

dude, I'm literally going to art school and 1. there is nothing wrong with having refrence photos, 2. I cant draw animals that good lmfao

[@SamTh3Man]

RT's brain is made of ruby tomb fuzz

[@meggycrystal99]

What I learned from this stream: 1. I’m apparently a syllables master 2. RT had to trade his Math King skills to become the Drift King

[@malachismith9059]

I just got a large amount of nostalgia

[@wanderingkernel5002]

6:04 As an Australian, you've done our country proud, Dan.

[@Vixemint]

Flintstones vitamins do work with brain age. My mom ate a whole container, and a couple decades later her brain age reset to zero!

[@CatsForTheCatGod]

This just launched me back 10 years

[@SapphicFromSpace]

My only memory of this game is borrowing my brother's copy and playing it at night when I was ten and immediately closing it thinking 'that makes naught all sense'

[@IsaacIsaacIsaacson]

tbh he did say he was the drift king in college, thats why he got stuck at driving speed

[@FroggyBoyKermit]

Rumble Tumble Game canonically is the only English Major that has never heard of Cask of Amontillado

[@nabi_era]

I wasn’t expecting to experience the trauma of my childhood today

[@superkillerrobo]

I find it really funny and interesting that this got uploaded a few days after I found my old Brain Age cartridge

[@1Holbytla]

🙂 I’m revisiting my Brain Age games again, myself. I’m glad this vid got posted.

[@eleanorcarpenter37]

Dr. Kawashima judges all. His floating vistage hides his infinite power, the same power that brought the bronze age civilizations to their knees after he judged them unworthy. All we can do is pray that Dr. Kawashima sees us as worthy of life

[@BanditFoxx]

There's no doctor I trust more than Dr. Kawashima MD.

[@fabianmulder923]

The discription is literally what happened to me on my birthday lmao. This game is so nostalgic to me because of it though

[@thedarksideofthemoon9612]

I remember this! Holy crap nostalgia I didn't know existed

[@Robin0928]

Local Irishman uses his brain for the first time since becoming the Drift King... back in college

[@tatertot2540]

Omg the memories are hitting me like a truck going 60 on the highway.

[@genericbushfire3055]

both RT and dr Kawashima forgot to draw Tasmania on Australia and i find that very entertaining

[@ashvinkannan6903]

You had small brain, you had smooth brain. Now you can call rt old brain