My mom was watching Star Wars (no ANH that I recall???) on VHS and I kind of joined in. I remember the first thing I ever saw of SW was Obi-wan kneeling down over Luke and calling out to R2. This was the unaltered version, likely with the splice but I can't remember. The box itself was labelled only "Star Wars". Pan&scan, PAL, with pitch correction which is a nice touch. We also had unaltered versions of ESB and ROTJ on VHS, also pan&scan although I do not recall if they had pitch correction as well. English isn't my first language bear in mind, and my mom insisted on getting versions without subtitles (not that I could even read at that point) so for the first very many viewings I did not understand a word of what was said but I still loved watching. I did have my mom translate on the go for me once. That was kind of nice.

After that she got the Special Edition box set. The quality was better obviously and it was in proper cropped widescreen. Had a documentary at the beginning of each film detailing what was improved. Still not so good at english at that point and once again no subtitles, so I didn't notice too many changes although Jabba was indeed hideous and the ESB shuttle insert was wierd.

I also recall seeing the ROTJ special edition in the theater, but the only thing I really remember from that was that I almost pissed my pants because I really really really had to go, but it was during the sail barge action scene and I sure wasn't going to miss that final explosion on the big screen. T'was glorious too!

I also remember that for a long time my current favorite colour was dictated by whichever lightsaber I had last seen in a Star Wars film. :D