| Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach | |
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| Developer(s) | Sega |
| Publisher(s) | Ubisoft |
| Designer(s) | Rieko Kodama (producer) |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable |
| Release date(s) | Nintendo DS PlayStation Portable
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| Genre(s) | Educational |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Media/distribution | Nintendo DS cartridge UMD |
Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach, known as Nounenrei: Nou Stress Kei Atama Scan in Japan, is a mental training game for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable. It is similar to Nintendo's Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! It involves playing 16 different training exercises to measure and improve particular parts of the player's brain, such as one's brain age and its brain stress degree.
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On June 29, 2007, Ubisoft, the game's publisher voluntarily pulled the game from store shelves in the UK upon complaints that the word spastic, a term that is offensive in the UK, was triggered when the player didn't perform well on certain questions.[1] Ubisoft stated "As soon as we were made aware of the issue we stopped distribution of the product and are now working with retailers to pull the game off the market." [2]
The only country where the European English version of the game is sold is Australia since the term is not considered especially offensive there or overly sensitive.
The same incident occurred with the game Mario Party 8, released for the Nintendo Wii, just a month later. The same word caused controversy and was recalled in the UK. However, unlike Mind Quiz, that word was replaced by the word "erratic" and it was finally re-released in the UK on August 3, 2007.
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| Publication | Score |
| GameSpot | 4.9 out of 10[3] |
| IGN | 4.0 out of 10[4] |
The title received mixed to negative reviews; garnering 51.20% on GameRankings. GameSpot gave the game 4.9/10 (Poor), stating that "Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach is a shameless clone of Nintendo's brain-training DS game, Brain Age" and that "This game isn't good enough to serve as a game for Brain Age players who are looking for more of the same because it's too similar yet too shallow to entertain that crowd. If you fall into the group of people who haven't played Brain Age, you should go with that one rather than waste your time on a pretender like Mind Quiz."[5]