Victorian gold rush in the Melbourne "Argus" on 8 September 1851, leading to a rush to the Mount Alexander or Forest Creek diggings, centred on present-day Castlemaine, claimed as the richest shallow alluvial goldfield in the world. These discoveries were soon surpassed by Ballarat and Bendigo. Further discoveries including Beechworth in 1852, Bright, Omeo, Chiltern (1858–59) and Walhalla followed. The population of Melbourne grew swiftly as the gold fever took hold. The total number of people in Victoria also rose. By 1851 it was 75,000 people. Ten years later this rose to over 500,000. Surface alluvial gold was the first to be exploited.
Yogi Bear's Gold Rush the player gets three lives and one additional continue. "GamePro" rated the game as an inoffensive but unimpressive Super Mario clone, though they did praise the developers for creating an entirely new Yogi Bear game instead of a standard down-port of the SNES game "Adventures of Yogi Bear" (which was released almost simultaneously with "Yogi Bear's Gold Rush"). The four reviewers of "Electronic Gaming Monthly" were sharply divided about the game, giving it scores ranging from 3 to 8 out of 10 (averaging at 5.5 out of 10). However, all but one of them commented that "Yogi Bear's Gold Rush"