That was the night it premiered on HBO, and I could finally watch SW endlessly. I was 10 years old, and back then nobody had a VCR in my neighborhood, so you had to wait for the damn movies to come to Cable TV!
It had been 5 1/2 years since I saw SW in 1977, and I couldn't wait. I remember watching it with my older brother and just loving every minute and once Luke blows up the Death Star, that cemented SW as my favorite movie of all-time, and I realized it wasnt a fluke when I saw it in 1977, it was just as great 5+ years later.
I remember the next day was a snow day in the South Jersey area, and my Elementary School was closed, so I watched SW at 8:00 in the morning, went over a friends and watched it at 12:00 in the afternoon, and then watched it again that night at 9:00. (Those were the days of just one HBO and not a huge library of movies, so they would replay the big hits multiple times a day.)
To this day, when I hear the drums and the 20th Century Fox logo come on the screen, I think of SW from 1977, and Mr. Lucas could can f**k with the movies all you want now, but you can't take those memories away.