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I have a very vivid memory of being 4 years old in a video store and seeing Obi-Wan disable the Death Star's tractor beam in the (presumably) Special Edition release of A New Hope, since it was 1997

AFAIK I had never been exposed to Star Wars at that point but it has been stuck in my head like a thorn ever since.

But my first full length Star Wars movie was The Phantom Menace. I was 6 yo at release. Idk if I asked to see it or if I was just attending with my mom.

Later that year I got the Podracer game for N64 and I've been a SW fan ever since.

Full Movie?

That would Phantom Menace on VHS... about 20 years ago.

Well 15-20 years ago, i dont remember exact date

I know ive watched fragments of atleast one other (C3POs translation of Jabba regarding the Sarlacc is one i remember hearing when i was really young.. and mixing up the Sarlacc and Rancor), but thats the earliest i can think off.

A New Hope, on VHS probably.

I'm pretty sure as a kid I watched Empire Strikes Back on HBO before I saw the original in its entirety. I think the first time I watched Star Wars it was shown on CBS one night.

Star Wars ANH

I watched the 1995 release of A New Hope (and the rest of the trilogy) on VHS in 2015. The first one I saw in a theater is The Force Awakens.

we got the "one last time" original trilogy box set back in the day

A New Hope

got the VHS trilogy as a gift when I was a kid

I believe the very original ones wayyy back VHS. Even then I never got the appeal. Then recently-ish Rogue One since I don't want to invest all that time, boring af except for the scene. Then I tried a couple Mando eps and goddamn what a fucking slog. They should make an R rated series / movies with John Wick / Dredd / Raid people and some competent writers, maybe I'll actually get invested

A New Hope in theaters during the rerelease in 1997

Watched A New Hope for the first time in 2016.

My parents took me with them to see Empire Strikes Back when I was a year old, the first movie they ever took me too. First one I remember watching is New Hope though.

A New Hope on VHS, mustve been mid-90s

ANH on local TV at early 90's.
My uncle was very interested, he rented a laser disc of ESB.

A New Hope. Aired on local TV around 1999ish.

Don't remember, but I'm pretty sure it was one of the OT. I like star wars, but it was never a favorite.

I saw Star Wars in a second-run theater's double feature for 99... back in 1977. I was 4 at the time.

I remember not being able to see past the person sitting in front of me, so I had to sit in my mother's lap.

And that the second feature was Robin William's Popeye. Which was truly awful.

ANH. The scene where Luke finds his uncle and aunt's remains is one of my earliest memories. It spooked the crap out of me.

Tom_Joad posted...

I saw Star Wars in a second-run theater's double feature for 99... back in 1977. I was 4 at the time.

I remember not being able to see past the person sitting in front of me, so I had to sit in my mother's lap.

And that the second feature was Robin William's Popeye. Which was truly awful.

But Popeye was a 1980 film. December of 80.

Thanksgiving in the 80s got me all caught up.

wackyteen posted...

But Popeye was a 1980 film. December of 80.

Huh. Maybe that was how I saw the Empire Strikes Back?

I definitely remember seeing the Death Star blow up, having to sit on my mother's lap to watch the movie, and thinking the X-Wing fighters were the coolest thing I've ever seen.

Ya a New Hope but not old enough to see the original run in theaters hehe

The original Star Wars when it was re-released in 1980 (ahead of TEB)

I don't remember my first. One of my earliest SW memories is from Caravan of Courage, but I'm not sure if I had seen any of the films before

My mother saw Phantom Menace while I was in the womb.
If that doesn't count, idk which one would be mine. Too young to remember.

Empire, iirc. One of my earliest memories, at a friends house watching it on HBO.