This is a bit further back that the era of gaming being presented, but a type of existential crisis occurred the day I discovered that I could download not only a decent Commodore 64 emulator but virtually all the games ever publicly produced. I had a huge collection of disks back in the day, stacks of diskette containers, indexed and sorted, and it was probably a percent of what was truly out there, names I never even heard of.
The crisis hit me when I realized I could stick the entirety of the C-64 revolution (emulator, games, music, demos) on a single USB flash drive.