Gauntlet Wikipedia page question.

RobR · February 8, 2016

My friend and I were talking about video games and he mentioned a game he remembered playing when he was young. He couldn't remember the name, but he said ghosts and food. I knew right away it was Gauntlet. So I went on Wikipedia to show him the screenshot and he confirmed that was the game he remembered.

Ok, so far so good. Now comes the interesting part.

While I was on that page, I noticed the following sentence":

"The game was highly profitable upon its October 1985 launch, reportedly earning one San Mateo, California arcade operator US$15,000 in sixteen weeks and another Canadian operator $4,500 in nine days."

This intrigued me as I grew up in San Mateo and was heavily into the arcade scene. So I click on the number in the square brackets to get more info. It showed the link, but I was in such a hurry to see which arcade it was, I failed to notice that the link was for a G4.COM site. Now for those of you that don't know, G4 had replaced Tech TV and was geared more for video gaming than computers and tech. Last year, G4 transformed to Esquire. So when I clicked that link, it sent me to Esquire.com which has nothing to do with video games. So that brings me here, asking anybody here if they know which arcade operator it was. If I had to guess, I'm guessing it was "Gold Mine" in Fashion Island.