Fairly certain I fall into this category. The Stormtrooper's ransacking of the Malla household, left a permanent mental dent on all five years of this youngster. Then in the 1990 after getting the movies on VHS, the memories resurfaced when the ransacking didn't appear in the films. What were these mental scenes, did they exist? Few years later usenet got me in contact with fellow with a VHS version and soon there after, I was reaquainted with the horrors the Empire can bestow on a wookiee family.

Not sure when, but the first time I saw Star Wars was on a 16mm highly edited black and white version rented from the local library at a birthday party. Not having a VCR, used to go to a friends to watch the Droids cartoons, since most saturday mornings was out playing soccer or baseball. Definitely learned the stories from the storybooks and the trading cards. (the inside cover of The Star Wars Storybook has my chicken scratch from 10/27/78 as if i'd checked it out from the library) Parents probably bought it as the hype of winter marketing blitz swept through with the Holiday Special capping it off. Not sure if I saw Empire in theaters, (probably did) but listened to the storybook record over and over. Remember waiting in line to see RotJ. Definitely the last kid in school still playing with the figures, luckily slightly too dense to realize I was being made fun of, but didn't care had Amanaman in my lunchbox.