Software:100 Classic Book Collection
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| Developer(s) | Genius Sonority |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Masayuki Kawamoto |
| Producer(s) | Manabu Yamana |
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| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
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| Genre(s) | Educational |
100 Classic Book Collection, known in North America as 100 Classic Books, is an e-book collection developed by Genius Sonority and published by Nintendo, which was released for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. First released in Europe in December 2008, it was later released in Australia in January 2009, and in North America in June 2010. The game includes one hundred public domain works of literature.
Genius Sonority had previously released a similar collection of books in Japan, under the title DS Bungaku Zenshuu, in October 2007.[4][5] A smaller version of the collection consisting of 20 books, under the title Chotto DS Bungaku Zenshu: Sekai no Bungaku 20, was released in Japan as a downloadable DSiWare application in February 2009.[6][7] French and German versions, under the titles of 100 Livres Classiques and Bibliothek der klassischen Bücher respectively were released in March 2010.[8][9]
Features
100 Classic Book Collection features one hundred books stored into the DS cartridge. Several of the works included are Othello by William Shakespeare, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, and The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Additional free books were available to download via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection until the discontinuation of the service on May 20, 2014.[10][11]
The player is required to hold the DS like a book and is able to adjust the text size and change background music to listen to while reading.[10] A bookmark feature allows the player to mark their place in the book, as well as resume from that point on restart of the game. The game offers a search feature for books in a number of different ways, including genre, author, and length. Players can access introductions for the books and read about the authors.[10] An in-game quiz features asks players personality-related questions and recommends certain novels depending on the answers given. Players can send "trial versions" of the game to other DS users via the local Wi-Fi.[10]
Reception
100 Classic Book Collection debuted on UK sales charts at number 17 during its week of release, and moved up to number 8 the following week.[2][12]
The content was well received, but critics felt the DS was not a suitable platform. Prior to the advent of Kindle, The Guardian newspaper reviewed the game as part of the "minority fad" of e-readers, declaring it bland and impersonal but good value for money.[13] Eurogamer magazine criticised Nintendo for only using texts that were out of copyright and for not spending the extra for modern classics. They also found the text difficult to read due to the size of the screen, with unhelpful hyphenations, a low word number per page and distracting animations.[14] The Telegraph newspaper agreed that the game offered good value for money but also criticised the size of the screen.[15]
Included books
List of books included
Europe/Australia
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 Hodgson Burnett |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll |
| The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| What Katy Did | Susan Coolidge |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Barnaby Rudge | Charles Dickens |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| David Copperfield | 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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 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 | H. Rider Haggard |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | 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 Misérables | Victor Hugo |
| The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. | 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 & Imagination | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Ivanhoe | Walter Scott |
| Rob Roy | Walter Scott |
| Waverley | 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 |
| Henry V | William Shakespeare |
| Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare |
| King Lear | 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 | William Shakespeare |
| Richard III | 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 |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| Around 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 |
North America
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Emma | Jane Austen |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| Lorna Doone | R. D. Blackmore |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Tales from the Arabian Nights | Richard Francis Burton |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| The Man Who Was Thursday | G. K. Chesterton |
| The Napoleon of Notting Hill | G. K. Chesterton |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| The Deerslayer | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Alexandre Dumas |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| The Diary of a Nobody | George and Weedon Grossmith |
| Allan Quatermain | H. Rider Haggard |
| King Solomon's Mines | H. Rider Haggard |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Four Million | O. Henry |
| The Odyssey | Homer |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Anthony Hope |
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo |
| Les Misérables | Victor Hugo |
| The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. | Washington Irving |
| The Aspern Papers | Henry James |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Man Who Would Be King | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| White Fang | Jack London |
| The Princess and Curdie | George MacDonald |
| The Princess and the Goblin | George MacDonald |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| Moby-Dick | Herman Melville |
| Utopia | Thomas More |
| Rights of Man | Thomas Paine |
| Tales of Mystery & Imagination | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Ivanhoe | Walter Scott |
| Waverley | Walter Scott |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare |
| Othello | William Shakespeare |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
| The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
| The Time Machine | H. G. Wells |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
List of additional downloadable books
Europe/Australia
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen |
| Agnes Grey | Anne Brontë |
| What Katy Did At School | Susan Coolidge |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| The Aspern Papers | Henry James |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| The Water Babies | Charles Kingsley |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | William Shakespeare |
| The Black Arrow | Robert Louis Stevenson |
North America
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad |
| Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
| Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne |
| The Happy Prince and Other Tales | Oscar Wilde |
France
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Eugénie Grandet | Honoré de Balzac |
| Le Petit Chose | Alphonse Daudet |
| Trois contes | Gustave Flaubert |
| Claude Gueux | Victor Hugo |
| Ramuntcho | Pierre Loti |
| Le Horla | Guy de Maupassant |
| La Vénus d'Ille | Prosper Mérimée |
| La Petite Fadette | George Sand |
| Les Révoltés de la Bounty | Jules Verne |
| Micromégas | Voltaire |
References
- ↑ Kozanecki, James (January 19, 2009). "AU Shippin' Out January 19–23: Skate 2". GameSpot.com. http://uk.gamespot.com/ds/puzzle/100classicbookcollection/news.html?sid=6203344&om_act=convert&om_clk=newsfeatures&tag=newsfeatures;title. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jenkins, David (January 6, 2009). "UK Charts: Wii Play Is 2009's First Chart Topper". Gamasutra.co. http://gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21743. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
- ↑ Cabral, Matt (February 24, 2010). "DSi XL Hits North America Next Month For $190". Kotaku.com. http://kotaku.com/5479225/dsi-xl-hits-north-america-next-month-for-190. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
- ↑ Spencer (October 27, 2007). "Siliconera " Books on your DS? Hands on DS Bungaku Zenshuu". Siliconera.com. http://www.siliconera.com/2007/10/24/books-on-your-ds-hands-on-ds-bungaku-zenshuu/. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ↑ "Error: no
|title=specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in Japanese). Nintendo.co.jp. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/ybnj/index.html. Retrieved 2009-08-09. - ↑ Spencer (February 20, 2009). "Here Is Your Nintendo DSiWare Line Up For February". Siliconera.com. http://www.siliconera.com/2009/02/20/here-is-your-nintendo-dsiware-line-up-for-february/. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ↑ "ちょっとDS文学全集 世界の文学20" (in Japanese). Nintendo.co.jp. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/dsiware/kbgj/. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ↑ "Test du jeu 100 Livres Classiques sur DS" (in fr). https://www.jeuxvideo.com/articles/0001/00012433-100-livres-classiques-test.htm.
- ↑ "Bibliothek der klassischen Bücher" (in de-DE). https://www.nintendo.de/Spiele/Nintendo-DS/Bibliothek-der-klassischen-Bucher-270132.html.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Riley, Adam (December 28, 2008). "100 Classic Book Collection (DS Novel) at C3 Reviews". Cubed3.com. http://www.cubed3.com/review/663/. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ↑ "Titles with additional downloadable content". Nintendo. https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Nintendo-DSi-XL-/Basic-setup-and-use/Termination-of-Nintendo-Wi-Fi-Connection/Titles-with-additional-downloadable-content/Titles-with-additional-downloadable-content-864190.html. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
- ↑ Jenkins, David (January 13, 2009). "UK Charts: Wii Fit Sprints Back To Number One". Gamasutra.com. http://gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21828. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ↑ Anderiesz, Mike (January 6, 2009). "Guardian review". The Guardian (London). https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jan/06/classic-book-collection-nintendo-ds.
- ↑ Gibson, Ellie (February 9, 2009). "Eurogamer review". Eurogamer.net. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/100-classic-book-collection-review.
- ↑ Hoggins, Tom (January 6, 2009). "Telegraph review". The Daily Telegraph (London). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/4142077/100-Classic-Book-Collection-review.html.
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