For me, the seeds were planted around '97 or '98 when I was 16 or 17ish and, having recently bought the Special Edition VHS box set, decided I wanted to own both versions and set out to buy the originals, only to find that they'd been discontinued.

I was still wowed by the SE and was disappointed but accepting of them being all I could get ahold of.

Over time, the luster of the SE's wore down and I came across laserdisc bootlegs on DVD and was satisfied for a time.

But the straw that broke the camel's toe was the blatant disrespect shown toward the originals in the 2006 GOUT DVD's.