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.
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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.
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.
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...
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.
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