You left the theater and you were just numb all over. You went home with all these scenes and images racing through your mind for days on end. It swept through my junior high along with the popularity of KISS (posters everywhere). Can't remember who I went with to see Starwars or where I went to see it (I remember going by myself several times), but I remember being in line for ROTJ on opening night and saw it with a REALLY rowdy crowd. It was great. I think the release of Starwars left an impression on me that will possibly never be repeated again. It was such a change from what I expected to see from a movie. When they released the short film reels of pieces of the movie, I bought one (mine was a scene in bens place and a fight between the Millenium Falcon and Tie Fighters...color, but no sound, just subtitles!). Still have it! Then I bought the VHS trilogy when it first came out, and then the next 2 versions ending with the SE. For people like me, it was always me being disappointed by myself about the changes being made. More recently it was frustration at why the originals weren't available on DVD (greatest movies of all time not on DVD???). Now I have kids who are into Starwars and am trying to explain to them why I feel the way I do. I try to show them the changes between the movies...and they keep asking, "Why did Mr. Lucas do that for??" What do you tell them?? Just bought a Tie Fighter vehicle and X-wing the other day at TRU...for my kids 
I never had any Starwars toys when I was young. I still remind my parents of that occasionally I'll never outgrow Starwars. xpfshost