Custom Game Boy Cartridge with Books and Literature Classics
A downloadable gameboy ebook
Turn your Game Boy into a one-of-a-kind pocket library! Our custom cartridges let you enjoy the greatest classics of literature (and more) right on your favorite console. Each cartridge is tailor-made: choose from novels, essays, and other public domain works in multiple languages, or send us your pre-digitalized book – yes, even your personal PDF can become a cartridge at no further cost!
Each cartridge comes in a retro-style cassette box with personalized artwork, making it perfect for collectors, nostalgic nerds, and book enthusiasts. Compatible with Game Boy DMG/Color, Game Boy Advance, or emulators, these cartridges are the ideal gift for anyone who wants to combine retro nostalgia with a love for books.
Whether you're reading an adventurous novel or a thought-provoking essay, this is the reading experience you didn’t know you needed. Pick your favorite book from our curated list or send me any text file to create your custom cartridge. Make every journey into captivating worlds even more special. It’s the perfect gift for those who love books, retro gaming, and timeless stories on vintage consoles.
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Complete your collection and save! Buy more than one book and enjoy our exclusive discount with the coupon code TRILOGY on Etsy. Whether you’re completing a trilogy or simply exploring new worlds, every book adds another step toward your next adventure. Don’t miss this chance to enrich your library and experience unforgettable stories!
Please note that, as repurposed vintage items, they may not always be scratch-free.
The list of available books is frequently updated with new titles! Add this item to your favorites to stay updated, and contact me if you’d like a book that isn’t listed.
Available Books:
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Ancient Roman Recipes (De Re Coquinaria) by Apicius
- Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) by Leo Tolstoy
- Around the World in Eighty Days (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) by Jules Verne
- At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
- Beowulf by an Unknown Anglo-Saxon author
- Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
- Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
- Comedies and Poetry by William Shakespeare
- Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Dhammapada by Unknown
- Don Chisciotte della Mancia (Don Quijote de la Mancha) by Miguel de Cervantes
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
- Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Gargantua and Pantagruel (Gargantua et Pantagruel) by François Rabelais
- God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
- Histories (Ἱστορίαι) by Herodotus
- IThe Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) by Alessandro Manzoni
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- La Divina Commedia: Hell (La Divina Commedia: Inferno) by Dante Alighieri
- La Divina Commedia: Paradise (La Divina Commedia: Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri
- La Divina Commedia: Purgatory (La Divina Commedia: Purgatorio) by Dante Alighieri
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Metamorphoses (Metamorphōseōn librī) by Publius Ovidius Naso
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- Notes from Underground (Записки из подполья) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Odissea (Ὀδύσσεια) by Homer
- On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) by Lucretius
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Aeneid (Aeneis) by Publius Vergilius Maro
- The Black Corsair (Il Corsaro Nero) by Emilio Salgari
- The Brothers Karamazov (Братья Карамазовы) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
- The Charterhouse of Parma (La Chartreuse de Parme) by Stendhal
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte•Cristo) by Alexandre Dumas
- The Death of Ivan Il'ič (Смерть Ивана Ильича) by Leo Tolstoy
- The Gallic War (Commentarii de Bello Gallico) by Julius Caesar
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris) by Victor Hugo
- The Iliad (Ἰλιάς) by Homer
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
- The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint•Exupéry
- The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (De Vita Caesarum) by Suetonius
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) by Franz Kafka
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Prince (Il Principe) by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) by Alexandre Dumas
- The Tigers of Mompracem (Le tigri di Mompracem) by Emilio Salgari
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
- Thus Spake Zarathustra (Also Spracht Zarathustra) by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Tragedies and Historical Dramas by William Shakespeare
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) by Jules Verne
- War and Peace (Война и мир) by Leo Tolstoy
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Can't find your favorite title? Ask for your personalized GBbook at no further cost!
Updated | 1 day ago |
Status | Released |
Category | Book |
Publisher | |
Release date | 92 days ago |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
Author | Beatrice Barberis - NOW IN TIME |
Genre | Interactive Fiction |
Tags | Art Book, ebook, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy ROM, Narrative, Pixel Art, Retro, Text based |
Average session | Days or more |
Languages | Arabic, German, Greek Modern, English, Spanish; Castilian, Spanish; Latin America, Finnish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Swedish, Chinese |
Inputs | Keyboard, Gamepad (any) |
Accessibility | Color-blind friendly, High-contrast |
Links | Buy here |
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I think you should add the "Oz books", but just the ones Frank L. Baum wrote.
Here's a list:
Hi, thank you very much for your suggestion! I think I'll start with the first one and see how it goes. I can make them all upon request, by the way.
Could you provide the roms please?
Hi, thank you very much for your interest! I really appreciate it. Together with my team, it was decided to remove the sale of the ROM only. We do not exclude including it again in the future, but for now, we prefer to focus on physical cartridges, which return a more authentic experience.
Why?
I'm not going to mince words here your cartridges are expensive and all you have to do is post the rom file.
If you're going to stick to this path I will find an alternative elsewhere.
Because after all this work, there are constantly people trying to resell my content by passing it off as their own, at least this way they have it less easy.
However, if you search on Etsy you will find that the price is perfectly average, in fact many cost A LOT more. I also do time-based special pricing on the Etsy store.
That said, everyone is free to make their own considerations and look for alternatives.
You should also offer .gb files, for people with emulators.
Hi, thank you very much for your interest! I really appreciate it. Together with my team, it was decided to remove the sale of the ROM only. We do not exclude including it again in the future, but for now, we prefer to focus on physical cartridges, which return a more authentic experience.