I got lucky- I was born in '89 so when the OT was re-released in theaters in the late 90s I got to see them on the silver screen for my first viewing. It was almost like being a kid in the late 70s - early 80s, or at least for me it was because up until that point I hadn’t had much exposure to TV or films at all and Star Wars just blew my mind. So it went something like this:
ANH- in theaters, sometime in February of '97 (wow, I’ve been a SW fan for 20 years)
ESB- in theaters, shortly thereafter
RotJ- in theaters, shortly thereafter
TPM- in theaters, midnight viewing on opening day
AotC- in theaters, midnight viewing on opening day
RotS- in theaters, midnight viewing on opening day
TFA- in theaters, 7:00 P.M. on the day before opening day (in Hawaii, midnight releases are shown at midnight EST which is 6 or 7 P.M. Hawaii time depending on DST)
R1- in theaters, 7:00 P.M. on the day before opening day
TLJ- I’ll see it in theaters at midnight like all the rest, and I no longer live in Hawaii so it will actually be at midnight
A few notes:
I remember being scared out of my mind at the end of RotJ when the lightning came out of Palpatine’s hands. I ran out of the theater and watched from the crack in the door. Hey, I was seven.
I remember liking TPM when I first saw it at 9 years old, so well done Lucas, you pleased your target audience. By the time AotC came out I was already sick of TPM and aware of its inferiority to the OT. Episodes II and III did not redeem it, and I only saw each film once in theaters and didn’t watch them again for years.
Though the first versions I watched were the Special Editions, I distinctly remember watching an old VHS set dozens of times after I saw them in theaters. That old VHS set was NOT the Special Edition, and years later when I bought the DVDs I remember thinking “what the hell is this crap?”
Edit: I also will never forget the audience’s reaction to Yoda fighting Palpatine in RotS (edit to the edit: it was actually Yoda v. Dooku in AotC). The entire audience literally started laughing out loud at how ridiculous it looked. I didn’t really know how to react.
Edit 2: like Bobby above, I also remember the burst of applause when the opening crawl first started in TPM. Man, what a waste.