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publishing arm of the Robert Yaquinto Printing Company of
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, Texas.


History

Yaquinto Publications was started by Robert Yaquinto Printing early in the year 1979. In March 1979 Robert Yaquinto hired Steve Peek and Craig Taylor, both experienced wargame designers with several famous titles in their resumes. Peek and Taylor had been previously employed by
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, which had been merged into
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, but when that failed to rush the growth of the company, Peek and Taylor instead helped to form Yaquinto to publish wargames. Yaquinto brought several innovations to the industry, largely because they operated within a well-established printing company, with its attending expertise. Yaquinto was notable for its use of extra thick cardboard for the counters in its games, making them easier to handle. The most unusual innovation by Yaquinto was their series of Album Games. These games were packaged using the jackets for double vinyl record albums. The jacket often opened to reveal the mapboard printed within, the components contained in the two pockets of the jacket where, in normal use, one would find the vinyl record. Zip closing bags were provided to hold the components of the game. The concept of the album packaging was designed for Yaquinto by Larry Brom, designer of The Sword and The Flame. While concentrating on wargames for most of its history, the company also branched to the more mainstream areas of
board game A board game is a type of tabletop game that involves small objects () that are placed and moved in particular ways on a specially designed patterned game board, potentially including other components, e.g. dice. The earliest known uses of the ...
s. For instance, ''Neck and Neck'' (a
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game), ''Market Madness'' (a
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game) and a game based on the ''
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'' television show, were all published by Yaquinto. Possibly the most successful of Yaquinto's games was '' The Ironclads'', a simulation of combat between the first armored ships (
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s) in the
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that won the
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for "Best Initial Release of 1979". This game was well regarded in its time. One of the more distinctive offerings by Yaquinto was ''
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''. This game simulated individual combat in the context of either a bar room brawl or a hostile boarding attack on a sailing vessel. A lighter treatment than the typical wargame, it might best be thought of as role-playing in a film as opposed to actually simulating swordplay, as it included player actions such as throwing mugs of beer, swinging on chandeliers, and whiffing a feathered hat in an opponent's face to distract them. Yaquinto were the first publishers of the highly successful '' The Sword and The Flame'' wargame rules. Yaquinto Publications was also the publisher of early works by game designer James M. Day, specifically titles ''
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'', '' 88'', and ''
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''. ''Panzer'', as well as the rest of these games (that were based on the same game system) both as boardgames and as wargame titles were groundbreaking for their time and led at least in part to the detailed derivatives that produced later computer-based simulations. In the early 1980s, the company attempted to expand into the then-lucrative
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market, releasing three products: '' Man, Myth & Magic'' (1982), a Roman-themed fantasy RPG, '' Pirates & Plunder'' (1982), a
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RPG, and '' Timeship'' (1983), a
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RPG. In 1979, the impact of personal computers on simulation gaming was too far over the horizon for the founders to see how quickly the market would shift against this style of gaming. Along with several other companies started at that time, Yaquinto only survived a handful of years. By 1983 it had closed its doors, though the printing company continued, being acquired by
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in 2006. In 2018,
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acquired the rights to '' Man, Myth & Magic'' and '' Timeship''.


Board games


1979

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'' *'' C.V.'' *'' The Great Redoubt'' *'' Marine: 2002'' *''
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'' *'' Starfall'' *'' Sword and the Flame'' *'' The Beastlord'' *'' The Ironclads'' *'' The Thin Red Line'' *'' Time War'' *''
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1980

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Attack of the Mutants! ''Attack of the Mutants!'' is a 1981 board game published by Yaquinto Publications. Gameplay ''Attack of the Mutants!'' is a game in which the players try to use the equipment in the science building at Central State Tech to escape to an alternate ...
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'' *'' Fast Attack Boats'' *''
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1981

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'' *'' Asteroid Pirates'' *'' Battles & Leaders'' *'' Demon's Run'' *'' The Fall of South Vietnam'' *'' Market Madness'' *''
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'' *'' Raider!'' *'' Roaring 20's'' *'' Superiority'' *'' The Barbarians'' *''
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1982

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1983

*'' Close Assault'' *'' Commando Actions'' *'' Red Storm''


Role-playing games

*'' Man, Myth & Magic'' (1982) *'' Pirates and Plunder'' (1982) *'' Timeship'' (1983)


References

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