A Lancashire woman has reported being frustrated after finding that
Nintendo's
Brain Game, which is supposed to help improve memory retention, could
not understand her accent.
Michelle Livesey got the game for Christmas but found that it could not
understand the words she was saying. She has since found others in the north
east of England who have had similar problems.
"My boyfriend bought it for me because I wanted to do the brain training
programmes and keep my brain in shape," she told the
Lancashire
Evening Post.
"It would say I was getting things wrong, words like 'yellow' and 'blue', and
that I had the brain of an 80 year-old. It was quite comical, me shouting words
on Christmas Day and everyone laughing at me."
The problems were featured on a recent episode of the
BBC's
Watchdog.
Nintendo told the programme that, while it makes every effort to ensure that the
device can handle regional accents, a few problems remain.
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