Right now.

• Just about anything I want to play can be downloaded or bought for the right price. Digital distribution and niche porting companies have helped ensure a large library of titles would continue to be available for a long, long time to come. Additionally, technical hurdles like the classic PAL/NTSC or vendor specific expansion cards are nonexistent thanks to solutions like emulation and upscalers. Want to play a 3dfx game? No problem! Don't have an MT-32? No problem! Want to snap a screenshot or grab a video of anything? Easy! Want to share your experience with an unlimited sized audience while you play? Commonplace!
• Gaming culture on the internet is strong enough that there's always someone to talk with about whatever game I'm interested in. Except maybe Thunderscape, but I'm sure people will come around to that one eventually.
• Game prices have a fairly stable ceiling at $60 unless you want all sorts of crazy CE stuff that you used to only get if the store employees didn't steal your rare preorder bonuses. Y'all Lunar fans know what I'm talkin' 'bout. There's an extremely small subset of games that increase in value beyond that, and they almost always have a sole target audience exclusively comprised of collectors. That's ok, the bubble will burst.
• I'm old enough to appreciate games more. Not just plucking away at a title here and there, rarely beating anything and frequently abusing cheat systems. Now I value the experiences of playing through games, earning trophies and achievements as I go, and getting my money's worth out of each title that I play. Not every game I play is good, but I put good effort into beating every game I play and enjoying them for their successes as much as I criticize them for their faults.
• Internet speeds are bullshit insane. I remember getting a cable modem in 1997 and pulling stuff down at 500k/s, thinking that it was damn near light speed. Now that would be considered a borderline third world internet connection.

If you asked me a decade ago, I probably would have said 1998...but everything is fucking awesome right now and it's only getting better all the time. People like to bitch about "DLC" and "Day 1 Patches" like they never pined for an expansion pack to their favorite game (any Shogo fans up in here?) or never had to dial into a long distance BBS just to grab a patch that would then corrupt any of their existing save games. 2015 is fucking cool as fuck and I can't wait to see where we're at in 2020.