Over the last few months, you may have heard a little about the ‘Global Credit Crisis', possible world recession, and how it is affecting everyone. Well, it turns out that clever Nintendo may have a solution to all our problems. They plan to team up with Nikkei, Tokyo's leading and most respected index of the Japanese stock exchange, to create a new DS game which will make learning about the economy fun.
 
It sounds like a hard task, making something that we can't get right in ‘real-life' a fun and exciting video game for young people. But Nintendo has done it before with such classic ranges as ‘Brain Age', ‘Maths made Simple', ‘My Spanish Coach', and ‘Driving Theory Training', along with many others. So they've had practise at making educational games work and work well. But will this be too extreme and out there?
 
By using the touch-screen panels on the DS, you will be able to learn the basics of the economy and how it all works. You will also be taught keywords which are used in the stock market and then quizzed via a series of question based games. With all this ‘fun', Nintendo hopes that the game will attract a younger audience and keep them interested in the economy.
 
We should take our hats off to Nintendo really; if anyone can make a subject such as the economy fun, interesting and interactive, they can. Better still, if kids then grow up taking this knowledge with them, we could actually see a much more stable world ahead of us, even if it's run from kids on DS's.
 
Although now would be a great time to release this game/teaching aid, there has been no release date set, and no news on a title, although I think ‘MyEconomy' or ‘Recessionz' would fit the DS range rather well.