One of the best memories I actually have is with my brother. We watched the laser disk endlessly to the point where we know where all the breaks are when it is time to flip the disk over. Even now when we watch it on tape or burned DVD we always shout out what Luke says during the second time to flip. It's in the trash compacter scene when Luke shouts out "Hey open the pressure hatch to, where are we? Unit number 628-3827!" My brother and I would shout out those last four digits with our fists in the air as if it were a sports cheer, "3-8-2-7!" Time to flip the disk!

The other thing we would do play on our neighbor's trampoline. We would bounce each other with that double bounce trick that sends the other person high into the air, and we would take turns pretending to be Luke when he fell down Cloud City. Granted our fall wasn't as long, but it was still fun.

Ahhh...it was great. We spent the whole summer of 1997 playing Super Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi on his SNES in his room.

He also collected a TON of the space craft toys (there was this great Toys R Us at Navel Kadena...we lived in Japan at the time) and we bought so many of those. I only bought the X-Wing and the Shuttle Tyderium, but my brother had a whole butt load including the orange Cloud City cars. Unfortunatly he played with them in the tub and they got all...soapy, and the stickers fell off...and he lost all the little people inside. But mine were kept nice and are still on their stands. I loves my X-Wing!

I'm the bigger nerd in Star Wars than my brother, but those are some mighty fine memories.