Game Company Murder Case

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Episode 54 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Game Company Murder Case
Original airdate:	April 14, 1997
Season:	2
Manga source:	Volume 12: File 4~6
English version
English title:	Game Gone Bad
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Kazuo Nogami
Storyboard:	Kazuo Nogami
Episode director:	Kazuo Nogami
Animation director:	Hiromi Muranaka Asako Nishida Takashi Hyoudo
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Hikari to kage no ROMAN

Characters introduced

Tequila
	Member of the Black Organization

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch Criminal Tracking Glasses

Case

Situation

Kogoro is invited to a party for the release of a game which stores himself. While there, Conan runs into a man who uses the alias Tequila and learns that he plans to meet with Gin and Vodka. Conan follows Tequila to the bathroom where an explosion occurs and kills the man. Conan investigates the explosion and realizes that it was a murder attempt but the wrong person was killed.

Bombing
	Location: Mantendo building Victim: Tequila Suspects: Hideaki Nakajima, Koji Uueda, and Hironobu Takeshita

People

Hideaki Nakajima
	27 years old Mantendo Game developer

Koji Uueda
	27 years old Mantendo Game developer

Hironobu Takeshita
	27 years old Mantendo Game developer

Ishikawa
	Director of Mantendo

Tequila
	Victim (explosion)

Resolution

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Conan knocks Kogoro out and uses his voice changing bow tie to reveal what had happened. Conan reveals that Tequila and Hideaki Nakajima, one of the game designers, secretly exchanged suitcases. Conan reveals that the bomber is game designer Hironobu Takeshita and that Nakajima was his intended target. As evidence, Conan reveals that Nakajima's suitcase's key would fit into the suitcase Takeshita is holding since that is originally Nakajima's suitcase. Takeshita confesses and denounces Nakajima for having an affair with his wife. Conan asks Nakajima what he knows about Tequila's acquaintances only to learn that he always meets them in the cafe in the Apollo building. Conan heads there only to find out Gin and Vodka had cause an explosion to hide evidence of them being there. 

Continuity error

By the time that this story was told in the manga, Conan had a second encounter with Gin and Vodka (learning their names in the process), as well as learning about the organization. In the anime, however, The Shinkansen's Bomb Case and The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case omitted ties to The Organization and it's members. Thus Conan at this point in the anime shouldn't know the names of the men who shrank him, or their organization.

Dub error

Conan upon hearing Kogoro mentioning having some Gin and Vodka, recalls that Heiji Hattori telling him that the two men in black who he met went by the name of Gin and Vodka. In the Japanese Version, he merely recalls that those were the two men responsible for his condition.

This particular error originated in the Dub for Diplomat Murder Case. Presumably, this was done as a means of explaining how Conan knows the codename of the two men due to their omission in several episodes, but Heiji wouldn't discover Conan's secret until Holmes Freak Murder Case.

See also

• Season 2