DOKI DOKI UNIVERSE

Many of our collectors look like they essentially run small private gaming museums, but this month’s collector is a little different. Aditya Rai runs Doki Doki Station – part-game-store, part-museum, with plenty of his own items on show.

As you may have guessed from the name, Aditya’s interests are primarily in Japanese games – most console games coming into Indonesia during the Nineties were Japanese. “Initially, I was interested in for the Famicom. I wondered why games like that were in high demand in Japan, because at that time I preferred action games. After I tried playing it, I became fond of RPGs and started learning Japanese.” Soon, these skills would transfer into work. “When I worked part-time at a game store, I was trusted as a game tester to tell people how to play the game. Because even though many Japanese games have entered Indonesia, only a few Indonesians can speak Japanese.”