Are These Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Still Expensive In 2023? | Would I Buy Them?
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- čas přidán 20. 09. 2023
- In This video I look at the the golden section of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks. Books 51- 59. In particular 55-59. This includes Deathmoor, Knights Of Doom, Magehunter, Revenge Of The Vampire and Curse Of The Mummy. Are these gamebooks still as expensive in 2023? What would you pay for them today? And would I buy the,? If you want answers then hit play!
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I was given a box full of these books from my parents when I started getting interested in the 'Wizard' reprints. Luckily for me they had a complete collection save for Deathmoor and Mage Hunter, and I ended up downloading those from annarchive, which wasn't ideal for gameplay but it's better than paying crazy money for old paperbacks.
I have tried buying _some_ books though. A few years back I was outbid on ebay for volumes three and four of the Zagor Chronicles. The other guy went up to thirty pounds for both and then the time ran out. I can't even find them anywhere now and I'm mentally kicking myself for being so cheap because I'll never know how the story ends 😭😭😭
Revenge of the Vampire I feel is let down by that bug at the beginning involving the payment of horse and the inn. Unless you cheat you can't take the optimal path through the adventure. I don't know if other folk get irked by things like that.
Managed to get Deathmoor for a tenner! First edition with an unmarked adventure sheet too!
Wow.. well done. That's a steal.
Gosh, I had no idea they are worth so much now. I have each and every one of the greenbacks, up to #59. Collector here in Singapore, read them growing up. Never gonna give them up.
I got 40+
Same here. I bought them back in the day and had no idea they would become so expensive (otherwise I'd have bought more copies!).
Crazy Prices. I set myself a limit of £15 for books and at this point I am only missing about ten of the original run. I have #50-54, plus #59. But obviously I am missing the quartet of #55-58. Looking back, I just keep thinking why didn't I pick up 3 copies of each when they were on the shelf back in the day...I could have made a fortune. 🙂
I’ve long since given up believing I will own the last 6 Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. I stupidly stopped collecting them near the end of the original Puffin run. I used to naively think they might turn up at charity shops. Hah! Learning a time travel spell seems to be my only hope.
All of those books would have been 1st edition as it was stated only 5,000 books printed. Only Curse of the Mummy has been reprinted and that was under Wizard (or was that Icon). So those eBay listings showing 1st edition just seem like useless information.
My tablecloth is nice!
I got 3 of these. Unfortunately not mage hunter. Revenge of the vampire is a great sequel to Vault of the Vampire. Deathmoor and Knights of Doom pretty ok too if a little bit random. Follow the trend of latter books of everything being Skill 9-10 so if someone says oh I finished that easy then just give them two fingers.
Time to sell my complete collection.
Last 19 books listed on ebay!
Are Fighting Fantasy gamebooks still expensive in 2024, Lets find out.
I will be back in a few weeks and I will let you know how much a collection is worth!
70 pounds for an ongoing auction isn't indicative of anything. I love your videos but it's literally 2 seconds of effort you didn't do. Completed auctions for deathmoor is pretty consistently 140+ pounds.
I'm always looking to improve on points I've missed in videos. Your absolutely correct on this on this one! Its should have been a buy now and not a bid. Thanks for pointing my error out. it would be a steal at that price indeed tho!
I have some earlier books. I don't want money. But I would swap them for other books: is there a website for that? Being in Kangaroo Land also makes book swapping harder.
I wish I could have one)
Hey watched you video you sound Stirling based as I am I think I might rock your world on items if your interested
If you have watched my above video I mentioned the soaring price of one particular book… Revenge Of the Vampire. I even seen a Facebook post of $700 dollars on EBay for it. Assuming that’s real of course. If you have any ideas why this books asking value has surpassed Magehunter.. please comment below! 👍
My theory is because of the last 5 gamebooks this is the one that wasn't picked up very much - and there are less that were floating around out there. The premise and the artwork seemed a bit lame to younger me - who had no connection to hammer films. Curse I think was even rarer (and lamer looking), but reprints have an impact.
@@backstreetsbackalright5754 Good point in regard to Revenge. Curse definitely rarer. Very hard to get a copy of it in such a very good condition. Unless its just a sell-on to make money. Again the price problem...
I think there are a lot of people who don't know what they are doing when selling. Books priced reasonably sell. Books overpriced don't. Then people look online and see what is listed and think that's the price.