I truly appreciate all those that 'leave' the batteries inside the games these days...that really helps my business repairing the boards and damages to the game cabinet. Batteries not only leak acid everywhere, but also produce a gas that floats around inside the game, causing things to corrode. When the game is off for a long time, there is no air movement, and the gas just eats away at the metal. So, keep those batteries around, thanks! :0)

It does. Place your guns and ammo inside an electronic safe, let the batteries die, and see what it does to the guns and ammo, which is no where near the batteries. As long as you change the batteries routinely, things are Aok. However, you happen to get seriously ill, and possibly worse, batteries are forgotten about, and with the wife and kids, they don't know about things like that. I see it all the time.