I saw TPM on VHS in 1999 because all the kids at my school (1st grade btw) were talking about these weird things that I didn’t understand. It made recess kind if tedious when they constantly had to explain to me what a Wookiee was and I would ask dumb questions such as; “Is the Millennium Falcon some kind of alien bird?” or “this Dark Vader guy is some kind if robot, right?” Basically they wouldn’t play with me until I’d seen the films and knew what I was talking about.
I originally saw TPM and the SE of the OT with my uncle. However I was lucky in that when my mother bought me my own copies of the OT it was the unaltered editions.
Over the next couple of years I went from being the only kid who hadn’t seen SW to being the biggest SW geek in my class.