Brain Games
Brain Games is a compilation of memory video games released by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 in 1978. It was programmed by Larry Kaplan, and it featured a series of memory-related games, most of which required players to repeat from memory certain sequences or patterns.
Background
Programmed by Larry Kaplan,Brain Games was manufactured by Atari, Inc. and released in 1978.
It is a group of memory games, in which the player is faced with outwitting the computer in sound and picture puzzles. It can be played as either a one or two player game. In place of using the standard joystick, Brain Games utilizes the 12-button keypad controller. In 1978, the game sold for $19.95, and remained roughly the same price in the next few years.
Brain Games has been suggested in the 1984 book Clinical Management of Memory Problems as an effective clinical device for memory retraining exercises. Noted for having a variety of useful games, patients would be faced with auditory and visual cues that may improve spatial reasoning.
