Romaji: DS Bungaku Zenshū) (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.
