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Monday February 5, 2007
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Discount carrier Southwest Airlines doesn't offer a first class cabin, but 50 of the airline's top Rapid Reward Members have received complimentary Nintendo DS Lite game systems and a copy of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day. This is the first time that Southwest has partnered with an outside company in a promotion for their frequent flyer program.
Brain Age is one of the most popular games for the Nintendo handheld, and will no doubt help those weary road warriors pass the time on their next Southwest flight. And no doubt that will add up a lot of time in the sky; combined the 50 Rapid Rewards Members flew nearly 80 million miles, and spent nearly 133,000 hours in the air! That's a lot of time to train your brain.
Post by Peter Suciu
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February 6, 2007 11:53 AM
I really can't even begin to say how much fun this game is - I bought it for my girlfriend this holiday season, and she loves it, and I can't keep my hands off of her DS Lite to train my own brain. The fact that there are so many different game types and you get decent feedback from the game as to how you're doing keeps you hooked. I could easily see this occupying a whole flight.
...although, the games where you have to speak into the DS (like this one game where you have to speak the color of the text on the screen even though the word might be different-if blue letters spelling out "RED" appear, you have to say "blue" for example) might lead to an interesting flight...