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How did you came in contact with SW? What about your family?

The first 'date' of my parents when they got married was going to the movies. They saw ANH!!

One of my fathers brothers had a young son. When he had money he had to put it on the bank... but he didn't do that one time and he bought 3 action figures with his money... those action figures are now in my room; very happy with my own action figures of EpI and my Y-wing...

My parents bought a VCR back in like 1987 when they first came out, and it was a really big deal, and the first movie we watched was ESB and Back to the Future. I have all those Micro-Machines fighters, and action figures and all that tapes, the Speical edition and all that other good stuff. I plan on adding the DVD to my collection next week

I was five at my grandmothers. I watched 10 minutes or so of The Empire Strikes Back. I didn't know what it was. My mother said "That's Star Wars, it's pretty popular."

So my grandmother taped it on Showtime the next day for me.

I was born just after ANH came out. My brother had just watched it and he was nuts about it; all I got in my head from day one onwards was Star Wars, Star Wars, Star Wars...

Over the next few years through till when ROTJ was released and even after- with me still too young to truly appreciate the films- my brother bought tons of SW merchandise and I, naturally, competed with him to get stuff. Well, they WERE cool toys.

Then I grew a little older, watched the films again, got a true understanding with them, started to collect on my own accord...

And then there was the period where Lucasarts just released one high quality SW game after another, and I bought and played the lot, and then not long after that the countdown to The Phantom Menace started.

So really, there hasn't been any part of my life EVER when Star Wars wasn't a large part of my lesuire time.

hmmm I had a VCR in the begining of the 80`s.
My sister bought me the comic of SW, it came before the film. I was hooked, then my brother took me to the Norwegian premiere on Boxing day 1977 and it was one of the coolest day in my life.

My mom took me to see ANH when it was first released in the summer of 1977. I saw it at the Odeon in Beckeham.

I remember going to the loo before the show started and got lost, I walked into the theater by mistake istead of going back to the lobby. I walked in just in time to see Biggs flying in for a run at the Deathstar.

I was 8 years old at the time, about a month before my 9th birthday.

Finti is right, Tex, videos came out in the early 80's. Betamax, and all that...

I saw ANH for the first time when I was 4. My daycare center would take us to the public library and we would watch movies down in the basement viewing room. I saw ANH a couple of times there over the next few years.

My dad took the whole family to see it in 1977 and then everytime another came out. I was 8 when I saw ANH.

RC it's "mum" with a "U".

I don't remember when I first saw it. It's just always been there.

when I think about it; this all was pre-destinated; all my family-members know sw (they're not big fans but they appreciated it).
It's all strange how it all worked out...

I can remember which relatives gave me which SW toys though.

George Lucas brought me to Return of the Jedi, because he's my dad.

I'm talking about VHS, not that cheap Beta crap

Actually Betmax and VHS were very similar systems, quality wise. It was Video2000 that was the superior home video system, but that didn't make it.
If anything, VHS IS crap and it always has been. Man, since I got DVD I almost can't bear to watch my VHS's anymore. I already had that since I started working in the tv business but it's worse now.

Oh pullllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese..video's not so bad..

Yes it is.

No it is not

Auto tracking makes it bearable*sigh*
Thank god I have DVD

Texas- VHS and Betamax came out at the SAME time, early 80's, and Betamax was, as queeq says, better. Bit confused, my poor Texan friend?

But yes, video is crud.

Well it could of been like 84' or 85' I dont remember exactly

Just admit you don't know anything about it..none of us do except for queeq...but don't feel bad...I'm sure he knows about 8-tracks too

Video still wouldn't have been brand new then. Heck, even WE had one then...

I was 14 and saw ANH June of 1977 at the Stonybrook Cinema with my mom and dad. The theatre was jammed. The lines were unbelieveable. The popcorn machine was smoking. It was great.

They set fire to the popcorn machine? No wonder you remember, Was the film any good?

we got our first "family" video in 1978, I remeber i taped the WC final between Argentina - Holland, it was a hell of a big machine.
I advanced with my personal video in 1981 JVC

That's VERY early. We got ours in 1984 and it took quite a while after that before SW came out on video here.

I swear..I must come from the most low tech family in the world..

It would explain a lot.

yeah SW got out pretty late. They showed it on TV in Norway in 1983 so I was able to tape it. When video first came out it was merly used as a recorder. The idea of rental of films came much later.
I read somewhere that the first videos appared in the very early 70`s

Yes the first home videos were from that era, but they had these huge and clumsy cassettes and very crappy quality. They had them in school when I attended high school in the early 80s. Great laugh that was.

What that you attended High school

What does THAT mean??

Nuttin' nuttin'

And yes, finti that was highschool.

ehh ok not my point but what the hell

No, highschool, not hell.

I thought highschool was hell..

I bet you did.

I thought it was a piece of cake

Same here.

I loved High School, mine was across the freeway from the Galleria, and we would always skip and go ice skating. Then senior year a group of us were in a program where we went downtown everyday to take computer classes, but we would skip and just walk around and act dumb! I miss High School

Burn your diploma and start again.

I did one more year of Secondary school more than most and I was sick of it long before then. It became the most utterly hateful place for me.

Sounds like the anger hasn't gone down yet.

and rises when he sees you