PAX 10 Winner The Amazing Brain Train! to arrive on WiiWare Jan. 18

January 13, 2010

PAX
10 Winner The Amazing Brain Train! to arrive on WiiWare Jan. 18

NinjaBee brings Grubby Games star
Professor Fizzwizzle to new platform

Professor Fizzwizzle, the diminutive
genius and star of the 2008 PAX 10 award-winning PC title, The Amazing Brain
Train!, will make his debut in a new destination, Nintendo WiiWare, the Wii
system’s downloadable service, on Monday Jan. 18, 2010. Players will be able to
hop on board and begin their own brain-boositng adventure for only 600 Wii
Points (USD $6).

The new WiiWare title takes players
on a mind-sharpening journey around Professor Fizzwizzle’s cartoon world
stopping only to solve challenges and help his friends along the way. Fueled
only by mental energy, The Amazing Brain Train! guides the player through 15
different mini-games in three addictive game play modes—quest, test and
practice.

“This is one of the few brain
training games that has a quest/story mode,” said Joey Kendall, Lead Programmer
at NinjaBee. “It adds new goals and more purpose to the mini-games. The story is
silly but it’s kind of like watching a Disney movie – it’s cute but there’s a
lot of humor in there that only an adult would understand. It adds great comic
relief.”

More than a year of work has been
put into fine-tuning The Amazing Brain Train! and adapting it for the Wii. The
result is a fun, ultra-challenging and addictive brain training game that is
unlike any other in the WiiWare library.

“This is no ordinary brain game,”
said Ryan Clark, co-founder of Grubby Games. “The Amazing Brain Train! contains
features never before seen in the genre. It’s a departure from the minimalist
brain games we’ve seen in the past. You can forget about goal-less gameplay: The
Amazing Brain Train! is packed with quests, trophies and high scores that add an
aspect of gameplay that other brain games just don’t have.”

The game includes 32 unlockable
trophies, 16 categories of high score competition, unlockable tracks and quests,
plus a test mode that grades your brain power and tells you just how far your
mental juice can carry you.

“The game does a really good job of
rewarding you for doing well,” Kendall said. “It kind of triggers that
‘achievement mentality.’ You get a couple trophies and find yourself saying,
‘I’ve got to get all of those.’”

The Amazing Brain Train! was
originally released for PC, Mac and Linux in May of 2008 and in July of that
year, the game was selected out of hundreds of entries as one of 10 games to be
featured at the Penny Arcade Expo.