I think that feeling comes with the hobby, at least for some of us. When we were kids we dreamed of having our own arcades. Finding new or different games was exciting, because it was out of our control. We had to budget our money, deciding if we REALLY wanted to play the cool driving game or get more time out of something else. Now that we have our own arcades, we can just coin up. My arcade days were loaded with "Insert Coin to Continue" quarter-eaters.
A major portion of the social element of arcades is gone. The Guns 'n' Roses pin was ALWAYS being played, and so I almost never got to play. We had to wait in line, and hopefully challenge the incumbent on the machine. There are no more big kids, no more lines, and no more being angry that the damn machine ate our quarter.
Even at newer establishments, such as barcades, the feel is gone. The vibe is different. Hard Drivin' will never be new and exciting again. Teleporting into the path of an asteroid will never bother us the same way.
In the end, there are certain things we will never recapture about our youth. The world is not new anymore. But we do have new things to be excited about. Even if we don't get all of the feel from our collections, we still get an entirely new dimension of excitement from arcade gaming. We can make our own arcades. There's no more, "Why are they wasting space with THIS game?" No longer do we need to be disappointed when the one game we wanted to play had a line out the door, or an "out of order" sign. We can make the game room what we want it to be.
The most important thing we can do is to share. Share in the excitement of a grail found. Share in helping somebody fix a game. Share our knowledge, and our love, for this hobby. Some day our children and our childrens' children will wonder why we went somewhere to play games. Or why we used our hands.