Arguably the coolest home improvement store in the upper midwest. Even your wives can find something to look at or buy there and not want to leave as soon as they walk in.
It's strange to describe if you've never been in one. Think of a Grocery Store, Big Lots, Home Depot/Lowes with a bit of Harbor Freight all combined into one.
They have all the stuff HD/Lowes does (by category--not necessarily quality). Many (50%) identical things at lower prices, other "cheaper" things for much much lower prices.
They also carry the cheap as seen on TV type stuff / direct chinese import stuff ala MP3/MP4 players, eBook Readers, and the like; often with more of that around Black Friday as door busters.
They also have a 13 year old rebate program that offers super cheap or many free-after-rebate products every week that become 100% free (including tax) if you 'roll' your credit checks week after week to use it to purchase more FAR stuff. They allow you to send in as many rebates in 1 envelope to 1 address as you can fit, and even allow slightly late returns and you get a merchandise credit check post card (to spend as cash) with now up to about 15 previously submitted rebate items as in-store credit to buy more free stuff (or cheap after rebate or of course non rebated items) in the future without expiration.
As to why they're good for gaming is they have cheap tools.. a slight step above Harbor Freight with year long warranty for electric or forever on non-electric for their own labeled stuff, or of course the more expensive "good" stuff if you want something to last longer. Things like $10 electric drills, sanders, jig saws, free after rebate circular and jig saw blades, glass and surface cleaners, $2-$5 gallons of paint after rebate, etc... Plus they have tons of precut in different sizes laminated MDF or particle board as well as full sheet plastic melamine coated particle board. Only complaint is in recent years they switched their precut laminated shelving from melamine coated to paper so it doesn't stand up worth anything.. only good as a base if you will paint it. Full sheets though are still plastic coated and basically what Namco used in making the MsPac/Galaga reunion machines a few years ago--hard to scratch.
Check their flyers out online if you're intersted in what they carry and discount. They even sometimes give extra 11% rebate on all your purchases over a week that is stackable with the free after rebate stuff so you can walk out with product that they PAY you to take out when they do that.
http://www.menards.com