Three objects–a sombrero, an umbrella, and a diamond ring–have appeared without fail in all 16 levels of Donkey Kong (Game Boy, 1994) that I’ve played thus far. From the start I have assumed that these objects were nothing more than evidence of the type of surrealist logic typically found in videogames a la eating a mushroom to grow in stature, or shooting a snake which turns into an egg which one can eat for a health boost.