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Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day | 
| From: Nintendo
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $7.45
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Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 708
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: Puzzle Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: NTRPAG3E
Model: NTRPAG3E
UPC: 454967392560
EAN: 0045496739256
ASIN: B000TTZMCS
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Boost Your Focus Power - Train with quick, fun activities based on vision-training programs used by top athletes. | | • | Put eyes to real-world tests - Take a swing at a speeding pitch, outmaneuver incoming linebackers and strike the soccer ball into the goal in fun, sports-based training activities. | | • | Pick up and play every day - Users complete daily training activities to challenge Hand-Eye Coordination, Peripheral Vision, Dynamic Visual Acuity, Momentary Vision and Eye Movement, then track their results with a calendar and easy-to-understand charts. | | • | Symbol Order - Three symbols flash on the screen in any of the 12 boxes. One symbol appears at a time for only a split second. The challenge is to remember each symbol and then enter all three symbols in the order in which they appeared | | • | Box Tap - Furiously tap a series of moving red boxes before they disappear. The more users successfully tap, the higher the score |
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Product Description
Do you see what I see? Sharpen focus-power with Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day. Fast, fun activities and quick-play sports challenges give eyes a challenging workout they need. Games on the NDS help provide visual perceptual therapy. Number Flash - In this activity, numbers flash very briefly on the top screen. Users must then choose the correct number. As the activity gets harder, the number sequence gets longer. Box Track - A circle is placed in one of three boxes. The challenge is to follow the box with the circle in it as the three shuffle rapidly on the screen. Users must then tap the box with the circle in it. Circle Spot - In this activity, symbols appear for a split second in 12 boxes arranged on the touch screen. Users must tap the only circle among the symbols Letter Count - Users quickly memorize the target letter, then count how many times it appears as a fast-moving series of letters moves across the screen Fast Match - Users quickly look at the two symbols as they flash on the screen, then decide if they matched by tapping on the touch screen. Baseball - Tap the ball on the touch screen as the pitch crosses the plate to score a hit. With each hit, the box gets bigger, making it more challenging to hit the speeding pitch
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| Customer Reviews: Read 40 more reviews...
 Wonderful! October 28, 2007
Taylor V. Streeter (Chicago, IL)
89 out of 94 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful game! The layout is nice. The training games are new and fresh. The relaxation eye exercises at the end of the taining is great. You can do the daily exercises selected for you in relation to your eye test or use custom training mode. If you've played Brain Age or Brain Age 2 you will notice some similar formats but in no way is this a repeat. I would highly recommend this game. It is fun and it really does give your vision a workout. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
 Practical but Needs a Facelift January 1, 2008
Lisa Shea
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
Flash Focus is an eye-training game which helps you improve your peripheral vision, eye reaction time and other eye related functions. It is similar to many actual eye-training exercises used by optometrists.
Set up much like the Brain Age series, each player creates a profile. There are daily activities you perform to improve your skills, and then you do a series of tests to determine your "eye age". Your aim is to hit 20 years old, representing a young, healthy pair of eyes.
The tests cover a range of eye activities. There is the peripheral vision test, where you focus on a central spot but have to see the items around that. There are quick moving tests where you have to track a fast-moving object and remember where it ends up. There are reflex type activities where you stylus-click on objects, hit a moving baseball, swat at a ping pong ball. The more activities you work through, the more training session styles you unlock.
I definitely see the value of these activities, and like that it tracks your progress over time. However, I have the same complaint with this game as I do with Brain Age - and you would think that by now they would have fixed these issues.
First, the "discussion" involved with each game is maddeningly repetitive and annoying. You have to page through every single prompt. Surely by now they should have a "discussion off" option in the options menu!
Next, when they kick you up to hard, you don't get any credit in the tracking system. So if you go from easy games to hard games, and don't do 100% on the hard games, they berate you for being less good even though you are now MORE good, i.e. beating harder tests. If the point of the game is to improve your skill and to be tracked in that improvement, they should track it properly.
Finally, I am all for concentrating on the main task at hand, but some of the graphics here really could use a designer's touch. Remember, this is a VISION game!! The whole point is how things look! I think about how gorgeous Plankton looked, and that game was a very simple game. Just a basic overhaul like that could move this game from looking like it was made by 3rd graders to making it a game that's a true visual feast. They just didn't bother.
Well recommended for its practical eye enhancement features - but I really hope someday that a person with a clue about game design takes over the Brain Age group and overhauls these games with some basic but much needed upgrades.
Like Brain Age for the eyes November 10, 2007
Roxanne Rosas (Placentia, CA USA)
24 out of 25 found this review helpful
If you've played Brain Age, you'll know what to expect from this game. It's somewhat fun. Doesn't take long at all to do the exercises. Seems it's more of an observance teacher than something to improve eyesight.
Kills time... November 24, 2007
L. L. Nawrocki (Boston, MA)
23 out of 27 found this review helpful
I don't know if it really "trains your eyes" that being said... it's fun. That's all that should matter when you buy a game anyway, right? It's great when you have a few minutes and nothing to do. What's nice about it is that, like the BrainAge games, it is "ageless". I'm a 21 year old female and I was never really a "gammer" but the DS brought me into it... this game is enjoyable but I think that it would also work for younger ages too. It doesn't have the rpg thing that many people are looking for so it might not work for some for that reason. I only took off a star for the fact that certain things get a little tedious. (Why can't you "skip" the lessons for example?... you can FF but only page at a time) If you like BrainAge you'll like this.
The best game for the Nintendo DS December 6, 2007
VIRGINIA CHANG (BROOKLYN, NY USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I recently purchased 4 games for my Nintendo DS lite, Flash Focus is the best game in my personal opinion for this system. It is fun, easy to use, and keeps you on your toes. Having a sharp mind is cool. I highly recommend this game for gamers of all ages. President, Brooklyn Institute of Massage Therapy ( Brooklyn, New York ).
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