There have been a number of boxsets of Fighting Fantasy publications produced by both Penguin/Puffin Books and Wizard Books which vary in style, size and availability. Also termed "Boxed-sets" and "Gameboxes".
Penguin and Puffin Books Boxsets[]
Fighting Fantasy Main Series[]
Even the 25th Anniversary Edition of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain does not give an exhaustive list of the boxsets. However, it distinguishes between those that were for titles "launched" as boxed-sets and those that were for the gift-market:
Launched Boxed Sets[]
Sorcery![]
- Steve Jackson's Sorcery! Original
- This was published by Penguin Books and contained The Sorcery Spell Book and The Shamutanti Hills. This was, in fact, how Sorcery! was originally marketed.
Two-Player Gamebook[]
- Clash of the Princes - This was how the only Two Player book was published.
Gift Market[]
Given that 25th Anniversary Edition of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain does not name these, it is presumed that any that exist and were not named in the Launched Boxed Sets are Gift Market Boxed Sets
Gamebooks[]
- Fighting Fantasy Gamebox
- Perhaps the most common gamebox containing books 1 to 3.
- Fighting Fantasy Gamebox 1
- This had the Puffin Logo and the Fighting Fantasy logo and contained books one to four in the Main Series.
- Fighting Fantasy Gamebox 2
- This had the Puffin Logo and the Fighting Fantasy logo and contained books five to seven in the Main Series as well as Fighting Fantasy - The Introductory Role-Playing Game.
- Fighting Fantasy Adventure Gamebox - Bronze
- This had the Puffin Logo and contained books eighteen to twenty-one in the Main Series in the Adventure Gamebooks banner cover format.
- Fighting Fantasy Adventure Gamebox - Green
- This had the Puffin Logo and the cover was in the Dragon Cover Format. It contained books twenty-four to twenty-seven in the Main Series in the Dragon Cover Format cover format (the original "Golden Dragon Sub-Format").
- Fighting Fantasy Adventure Gamebox - Thrilling
- This set contained books thriteen to sixteen of the Main Series, and an iron-on.
- A Fistful of Fighting Fantasy
- This had the Puffin Logo and the cover was in the Dragon Cover Format. It contained books thirty-two to thirty-four in the Main Series in the Dragon Cover Format cover format (the original "Golden Dragon Sub-Format").
- Fighting Fantasy - The Anniversary Collection
- Published to mark the tenth anniversary (1982 to 1992) and contained The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Return to Firetop Mountain.
- The Best of Fighting Fantasy
- Contents TBC
Sorcery![]
- Steve Jackson's Sorcery! Series Boxed Set
- This contained all four books, in the Zig-Zag Stripe format, and the slipcase was notable for being a wraparound colour map of Kakhabad by John Blanche. It was the same map published as a poster advert as well as published on the back of Warlock Issue 5.
- It also advertised that it included a Transfer.
Wizard Books Boxsets[]
In the short time they have been publishing Fighting Fantasy material, Wizard have had two different styles of boxset.
Original Wizard Boxsets[]
The Original Boxsets were the following:
- Books 1 to 4
- Books 5 to 8
- Books 1 to 8
- Books 1 to 10
- Sorcery! Series Boxed Set - Wizard Original
- This contained all four books, from the Wizard Books release.
These were each published with artwork from the covers of the books they contained.
New Wizard Boxsets[]
The same boxsets were re-packaged (with the exception of the ten book set) so that they all followed a standard format with the Wizard Fighting Fantasy Logo on the sides (silver for Books 1 to 4, Books 5 to 8 and Books 1 to 8 and in gold for Sorcery!). The only difference between sets, apart from the contents, was the main colour of the slipcase, as follows:
- Books 1 to 4 - red
- Books 5 to 8 - metallic blue
- Books 1 to 8 - yellow
- Sorcery! - silver/platinum
The words "Fighting Fantasy" were also on the sides of the slip case, in silver, except for Sorcery! where these words were replaced with the "Steve Jackson's Sorcery!" logo.
Fighting Fantasy Collection 10 Books Set Pack[]
It is worth noting that a set of the first ten Shield Format books was released, bound purely in clear plastic and sold by the "The Book People" in 2010.
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