100 Classic Books

North American box art
Japanese Name	DS文学全集 DS Bungaku Zenshū
Developer(s)	Genius Sonority
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release Date(s)
Nintendo DS	NA: June 14, 2010 JP: October 18, 2007 EU: December 26, 2008 AU: January 22, 2009
Nintendo DS	NA: June 14, 2010 JP: October 18, 2007 EU: December 26, 2008 AU: January 22, 2009
Platform(s)
Classification(s)	This game is a Touch! Generations game This game uses the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
Genre(s)	Application (eBook)
Rating(s)
CERO	00

100 Classic Books<sup>(JPJapanese: DS文学全集

Romaji: DS Bungaku Zenshū)</sup> (known as 100 Classic Book Collection in Europe and Australia) is a title for the Nintendo DS by Nintendo and Genius Sonority that consists of 100 classic novels by a variety of writers, and 10 extra ones that can be downloaded via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Some of the works included are plays rather than books. A version of the product was made available on DSiWare in Japan for 500 Nintendo Points. This game was released in Japan as "DS Bungaku Zenshuu" (ＤＳ 文学 全集) in 2007 and later had a downloadable WiiWare sequel of sorts which was a separate bite-size game with 25 books called "Chotto DS Bungaku Zenshu: Sekai no Bungaku 20". The Japanese version of this game has 12 achievements to collect whereas the other versions of this game have none.

List of books

• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
• Emma - Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
• Persuasion - Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher
• Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
• The Professor - Charlotte Brontë
• Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
• Villette - Charlotte Brontë
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
• The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
• Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Burnett
• The Secret Garden - Frances Burnett
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carrol
• The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
• The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
• The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Colodi
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
• What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge
• Last of the Mochicans - James Fenimore Cooper
• Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
• Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens
• Bleak House - Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
• Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• Hard Times - Charles Dickens
• Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
• Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
• The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
• The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
• The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
• Adam Bede - George Eliot
• Middlemarch - George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
• King Solomon's Mines - Henry Rider Haggard
• Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
• The Mayor of Caterbridge - Thomas Hardy
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
• Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
• The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
• Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Washington Irving
• Westward Ho! - Charles Kingsley
• Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
• The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
• The Call of the Wild - Jack London
• White Fang - Jack London
• Moby Dick - Herman Melville
• Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allen Poe
• Invahoe - Sir Walter Scott
• Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
• Waverley - Sir Walter Scott
• Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
• All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare
• Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
• As You Like It - William Shakespeare
• The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
• Hamlet - William Shakespeare
• Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
• King Henry the Fifth - William Shakespeare
• King Lear - William Shakespeare
• King Richard the Third - William Shakespeare
• Love's Labour's Lost - William Shakespeare
• Macbeth - William Shakespeare
• The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
• A Midsummer-Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
• Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
• Othello, the Moor of Venice - William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
• The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
• The Tempest - William Shakespeare
• Timon of Athens - William Shakespeare
• Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
• Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
• The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
• Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
• Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
• Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
• Round the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
• The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Reception

The game on its first week of sale sold around 21,000 copies. The next week it did much better when 55,000 people purchased the game. It continued to sell well the following weeks and has currently sold 300,000 copies in Europe and Australia combined.

Very few people reviewed the game due to its debatable stance as a video game. Currently on Gamerankings the game holds an average of 70.20%. Eurogamer went as far as to give the game a 4/10. They were the least receptive of the game, stating that the game is not worth the money and the time to boot it up to read a book, and that joining a library is much cheaper as well. Other critics were more positive of the game, with Cubed3 going as far as to give it a 9/10 and Official Nintendo Magazine an 8.1/10.

External links

• 100 Classic Books at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• DS Bungaku Zenshū at GameFAQs
• 100 Classic Books at GameFAQs
• 100 Classic Books at NintendoLife
• 100 Classic Books at Metacritic
• 100 Classic Books Review at Eurogamer
• 100 Classic Books Review at Cubed3
• 100 Classic Books at Nintendo World Report
• 100 Classic Books at VG Chartz
• Bibliothek der klassischen Bücher (German) at Official Dutch Nintendo Website
• 100 Livres Classiques (French) at Jeuxvideo
• 100 Livres Classiques (French) at Jeux Actu
• DS Bungaku Zenshuu at Official Japanese Nintendo Website
• DS Bungaku Zenshuu at Retro Achievements
• DS Bungaku Zenshuu Review at Note.com (originally Japanese. Link to google translated version)
• 100classicbooks.com - Official Website