I’m in a bit of a pickle with this one, because while the gameplay and the idea itself is not bad, I feel like the theme here is overgeneralized too much. To me the theme servers as an anchor point between other games from the jam (oh this is pirates, this is diggin gold finding treasures). Here I get the idea of old gold = old arcade games, but the game itself is very far from the traditional forms of the arcade snake games, so I kinda feel like it is pushing the boundary and is more of a “i wanted a weird snake clone” and needed some way to shove the theme into it. I hope you do not take this as me wanting to write the game down, I just don’t see the theme personally in the game.
Graphically the game has an intersting style to it, and the rendering of the snake(?) is well done! The spin on the controls (hehe) is cool, made controlling it tricky (unless you figure out that spamming the button will make you go almost straight).
Music is sadly missing here, but the sfx was not bad.
Overall a cool game idea, I just fail to see the theme personally.