Brain Age

Via Austenblog we find out in The Detroit Free Press about a new video game called Brain Age by Nintendo:

Ryuta Kawashima's new game, "Brain Age," deserves a 4-star rating if only for devising a clever way to convince gamers to read aloud from dramatic passages like this one by Joseph Conrad.

To rack up top scores in "Brain Age," he requires players also to read aloud from Robert Louis Stevenson, Herman Melville and Jack London. As the days pass, the readings turn out to be more than macho adventure tales. The game includes passages from Jane Austen, Emily Bronte and Frederick Douglass.

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What impressed us most was the possibility that a player just might get hooked on Conrad or Bronte and this little handheld game might actually spark someone to put down the electronic gadget for a while and pick up a literary classic. Now, that is really cool!

It does sound like fun. Do you think it will be just Emily or Charlotte too? We'd love to think Anne might be there but something tells us we are asking for too much. Any bets on which quotation(s) by Emily - from Wuthering Heights, of course - might have made it there?

Categories: Emily_Brontë, Weirdo