I grew up watching them on VHS. Both the 1995 “faces” box set and the 1997 set. I was aware that they were two different versions of the movies, and I liked having the option to watch both. I even kind of preferred the special editions at the time, since they were still relatively new. Then I got the 2004 DVDs, which I loved at the time, and then I got the GOUTs, more out of a sense of completionism than anything else. It was only around 2011 or so, after the Blu-rays added more changes, and the Special Edition CGI continued to age poorly, that I finally got fed up and just watched the GOUT exclusively.