So, I'm going to take a wild saber stab in the dark and guess that anyone reading this has a passing interest in Star Wars.

So what was the thing that sold you on it? That took it from "this is a cool thing" to "Oh yes, this thing has my soul in it's dirty little clutches for life".

For me, it was seeing Return of the Jedi on it's original release back in the 80s. I was *checks IMDB for release year* 7 years old! ****...that long ago? *sighs* Anyway, I remembered seeing Empire Strikes back on VHS, though I'm not sure if I had seen A New Hope at that point, or if I had, I didn't remember it. But we went to the theater, if not right on opening weekend, close enough that the lines for tickets were around the corner. We stood for at least an hour, and I never recalled any movie having a line that long before in my life. We finally got our seats, and it was right in the middle of the theater.

I'd never been in a theater that packed before, and everyone was psyched. You could feel the anticipation in the air. The opening scrawl came up, with the sweeping music, and everyone cheered. Then, we sat in to see what was going on.

Short version, as I'm guessing you guys have seen the movie We get to the sarlaac pit scene, and nobody has any clue what Luke's going to do. We know he's got some plan in place, that much is obvious, but what it is, total mystery. There wasn't a sound in the theater, except that tense music of...whatever that instrument was playing those low "bwamp" noises while Luke was walking out on the plank. Then he jumps off, grabs the lip, flips, catching the saber and ignites it, and that music....god that music explodes, and everything goes chaotic as he starts whipping ass. The theater lost their minds when that happened. I'd never heard a theater erupt into cheers before. Every movie experience up to that point was quiet attention to the screen. You didn't make noise, and you sure didn't scream like madmen in unison with everyone else, making the room echo with your voices. But **** if it wasn't perfect!

It was branded on my brain at that point, the Star Wars bug. But that scene, and the final fight between Vader and Luke also clinched it. Again, the music sold the scene for me, carrying so much emotional weight to what was going on, and when Mark leaps up to start wailing on Vader, you could feel the rage pouring off of him. Such a good performance. The silhouetted combatants, lit only by their sabers, as the music builds to a dramatic and ominous conclusion. Gah! So **** good!

So that's what sold me for life on Star Wars. What about you?

Return of the Jedi is the single movie I've watched more than any other. Star Wars was my childhood, and I loved it. Never got into some of the novels, do to quantity, hopping, and some inconsistency among various authors, though I know most of the EU fluff, and love a lot of it (still use it), but ESB and RotJ were my favorite movies as a kid, and I was the right age to play Star Wars. Even today, if my brother, and I, watch Jedi, we subconsciously speak the lines of our assigned characters; it can irritate my friends, sometimes. The music is also great, and John Williams can never die. In college, KOTOR and KOTOR II came out, and were some of the best games I played during school; the only thing I ever liked an XBox for, and was glad my friend across the hall owned one.

This games' initial handling of the Force, and the Jedi, almost turned me off of it, but I'm glad I held out, and still look forward to playing/running this, at some point, as I'm more of the opinion now that their handling of things will lead to a good game. Hopefully, this summer, I'll have a bit more time to hammer out the rules, and maybe I can run it for my college-age friends in the GAMES club I was in, next fall.

I do not think that I actually have what you are asking for.

I learned of Star Wars via Kinder Surprise, from which I got miniatures of R2-D2 and, if memory serves, Han Solo. I got interested, and when I saw ANH and ESB VHS cassettes I asked my parents to buy them. Later I also recieved ROTJ.

I do not think that there are any exciting details to describe regading watching the original trilogy, although I seem to have liked Episode 6 the most and episode 5 the least, which is the opposite to my current preferences.

I also remember playing Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy and Republic Commando games in my childhood.

I am sorry if this post is a waste of time and/or space.

I was 5 when ANH hit in theaters, and while I remember going to see it with my parents, I do not recall what hooked me. But I was hooked. Back then my best friend and me both had the action figures (and wish I still did!), and the Jawa was our favorite. I remember getting the AT-AT for Christmas and saving up those proof-of-purchase things to mail in for my very own Boba Fett! I was so excited when he arrived.

So many fond memories.

What did it to me? Pretty much 1977. Yeah, I'm an old fogie that was eight at the time Star Wars dropped - the right age for proper indoctrination. The paradigm shift from BSW to ASW cant be described to people who weren't there. BSW we had cool science fiction things like The Six Million Dollar Man and Star Trek (and Doctor Who if you were paying attention to the PBS stations at the right time), but when Star Wars took over the world, it was huge. It was if The Beatles, The Rock and Hulk Hogan all got together and had a love child. I mean Discos were playing the theme. And folks were dancing their asses off to it!

So yeah, seeing the world change and getting caught up in it (plus the aftershocks of people cashing in on it's popularity, like Star Blazers, Battle Beyond the Stars and all the knockoffs), I couldn't NOT be a fan!

I loved the first 3 movies, but I'm not really a SW nerd. I have read some of the novels and run F&D and play X-Wing but it's not my fave sci-fi. At the end of the day Babylon 5 is really my thing.

I think I watched all the Star Wars movies and loved them before I was 5, around when Episode 1 came out.

I don't remember why or when I liked Star Wars, I just sort of always have.

Oddly enough when I was a little kid all my friends liked the prequels the most, because they had fancy CGI battles, yet something about ANH always vibed with me and has stayed my favorite to this day.

I also thought the romance scenes in Episode 2 were lame as a kid, even more now that I recognized how poorly written they were, which might have affected my opinions of that movie, if it was all Obi-Wan being a galactic space detective I would have loved it. But the Ani-Padme stuff was just not my thing.

An 8 year farm boy in a world without home computers, smart phones, Ipads, or VCRs and only 2 channels on TV walks into a theater in '77 and sees fabulous special effects tell a story of space magic, knights with glow swords, space pirates, awesome space battles, rescue of a space princess, and it all ends with the farm boy discovering his magical powers and saving the galaxy at the end. It would have been extremely odd if I didn't instantly become a fan boy.

Space magic

Born in 1982, so I missed the original releases, but I remember being kid and there was a marathon of the 3 movies on some cable network (USA, maybe?) that my dad wanted to record on VHS in the basement. I decided to watch along while it was recording and I was hooked. I think I almost wore out those tapes before he ever got to watch them either by watching them myself or taking them over to friends' houses and getting them hooked. I also remember this commercial playing almost every break.

I saw it as a seven year old girl and fell in love with it. At 13, Leia's slave bikini pretty much carbonised my hormones and made me realise I could feel the same way about girls as I did about boys.

Fell back in love with it in the early 90's when the WEG RPG came out. So much felt fresh and new and the EU was really taking shape.

Moved on to other things but always kept an eye on the fandom. Didn't much like the way the EU was going. Absolutely detested the prequels when they came out. Phantom Menace was merely a disappointment, but what came next pretty much killed the fandom for me.

Fell in love again with Knights of the Old Republic, the only video-game where I actually felt I was in the movies. Bioware, doing 'Star Wars' - a dream come true for me.

Kept an eye on it, without too much interest down the years. Loathed the cartoons. Absolutely hated them, and realised I simply wasn't the target audience any more. I'd grown up and grown away from it.

But 'Star Wars' is a touchstone for nerds and gamers my age, and the topic kept coming up with the gaming groups I played with. We all have pretty good memories of the originals, flaws and all, and little elements and memes always seem to creep into our other games.

When 'Edge of the Empire;' came out, I felt it warranted another look. I was very sceptical, until I came to this board and started to learn the system, and realised belatedly it was a perfect fit for my narrative style while still keeping a lot of gamist elements.

By this time I'd almost wholly lost interest in the EU and how things had developed (or rather, hadn't developed!). The draw for me at this point was completely reconstructing it, making it anew from scratch, tearing it back to the very bones and rebuilding it. That was almost a lifetime challenge for a gamer like me, and I had the help of a dozen or so great gamers who helped me reimagine what we knew, breathe new life into it and make it relevant for us. And we've had two-plus years of some very intense gaming.

I thought I owed it to the originals to take a look at the new films. I thought it was okay, but found it hard to care at all. I felt it was nothing special; the magic had gone for me. I'd grown too far apart, or grown old and cynical, or my tastes were just totally different at 46 than at 7 or 13. I hoped it would do well and reach a new audience that wasn't even born when I was fangirling over Carrie Fisher, but accepted I had moved on and the new stuff wasn't aimed at me.

So it's been a long, odd road. Ancient memories blur into nostalgia, which becomes disappointment because I'm just not 7 or 13 any more.

But I am a HUGE fan of the game, which - while not perfect - is one of the best systems I've ever played and fits my style like a glove.

I saw it as a seven year old girl and fell in love with it. At 13, Leia's slave bikini pretty much carbonised my hormones and made me realise I could feel the same way about girls as I did about boys.

Heh, you and about a billion other people. I never had that "girls are icky" stage. I remember seeing older girls in bikinis when I was in first grade and thinking "I find that most pleasing and would like to know more." So yeah, Slave Leia did wonders for my sexual orientation. *insert joke about playing with my lightsaber here*

An 8 year farm boy in a world without home computers, smart phones, Ipads, or VCRs and only 2 channels on TV walks into a theater in '77

I saw it as a seven year old girl and fell in love with it.

*pours out a 40 for all the oldsters*

What did it to me? Pretty much 1977. Yeah, I'm an old fogie that was eight at the time Star Wars dropped

1977. I was 14, she was 12, it was our first date

I loved the whole thing, but it was the Force that sucked me in, a view of spirituality that still resonates.

I saw it as a seven year old girl and fell in love with it. At 13, Leia's slave bikini pretty much carbonised my hormones and made me realise I could feel the same way about girls as I did about boys.

Ayep. I wasn't born yet for A New Hope, and was just old enough to see Jedi in the theaters. Pretty sure I didn't know what was so great about that outfit, but Leia was burned pretty solidly into my head. I still find Carrie Fisher a beautiful thing.

I was so little when I saw it the first time. I thought it was a cool adventure! I liked the movies, but I didn't think much of it till I was teen. Then my friend got really hooked to the games, and he explained all the backstory and lore to me. I found it to be more and more interesting. I still don't consider myself as some mega fan or anything. But I like the elements Star Wars has and how unique it is.

Saw Star Wars in 77 as a 10 year old. The year before I had caught Logan's Run. Grew up on Star Trek and, more recently at that time, The Six Million Dollar Man. Not to mention all the different books I had read. Also spent a lot of time catching some of the Flash Gordon serials on public access tv back in the 70s. So I was very much into Sci-Fi (along with fantasy) at the time.

Yeah. 1977, six years old. First experiences:

1: Space battle, massive star destroyer dominates screen.

2: Stormtroopers burning through a door and blasting everything in sight (woah, who are these guys?)

3: Darth Vader (coool, this guy is even more awesome)

4... Yeah, everything else that followed (Han Solo/Chewie/Millennium Falcon, Luke/Jedi/lightsabers, princess with attitude, blasters, aliens, AT-ATs, bigger space battles etc.)

And allll the action figures and toys I could get my chubby little fingers on.

Sorry, I love the whole thing, always have. Difficult to put my finger on anything in particular (but I did love my Millennium Falcon toy, and like others, eagerly awaited my Boba Fett action figure to arrive in the mail).

Honestly, I can't remember a time Star Wars wasn't in my life, and that's the truth. I'm an only child, and my dad worked a good deal, so I had a lot of time on my hands. Other kids played sports or something, but I really liked stories, and my favorite stories were the ones in Star Wars. My parents had "bootleg" VHS Star Wars tapes, since - if memory serves - they recorded them when they came out on TV. It feels like I watched them every day, but I know that can't be right. Still, there wasn't a thing I loved more than Star Wars - it was everything I wanted, as a kid: magic, spaceships, laser rifles, damsels in distress, knights with colored swords, impossible odds, crazy characters, and uniformly armored fascists (I still love "boots marching en masse on metal/concrete" sound effects). The aesthetic was breathtaking, the drama high, the concepts resonated, and I'm sure that Slave Leia is responsible for my more niche proclivities. I watched those tapes for all of those things, even when someone taped over the last half of ROTJ.

More than that, though, Star Wars promised a bigger world. There was a history in place, an implied future. There were gaps to fill in the movies themselves. My little brain did all of these things, and it was fueled by the strange episode numbering - I knew there should be more, but it wasn't coming and I needed to create it. And, of course, when I heard Episode I was going to come out after so long, I was ecstatic. Finally, a Star Wars movie I could see in theaters! I was 5 when it came out, and I loved it. I know that puts me in a minority, and I know you'll all probably say "he loved it because he was a kid". But I didn't like Jar Jar much even at the time, and Midiclorians ruined the magic for me even at 5. I loved it because it was the background I was promised, and it gave me whole new possibilities to tell stories. Battle droids - what an amazing thought, when to me, droids were lumbering, quirky things. Double bladed lightsabers. More Sith - and a galaxy full of my heroes, the Jedi. A story that would explain how an innocent child became the menace known as Darth Vader. I wanted it all, and I still appreciate Episode I (though it's a bit dull, there are good scenes and it gave us Duel of the Fates, so it's really not all bad!).

I was hooked again, if I'd ever stopped. I consumed the prequel trilogy with a passion. Yes, Episode II moved a bit slow and it ended right when things felt like they should happen, but I adored the younger Obi-Wan, I loved seeing the tie-ins to Episode IV already (Anakin's lightsaber, for instance, and C-3PO's evolution). When the clones marched out, I was so excited! "These will become stormtroopers", I thought to myself as I contemplated their armor and their status as good guys. I wanted to know how, and why. And, despite Hayden Christensen being the worst actor to ever come across a silver screen, I loved Episode III. I cried when it was over, because I didn't know about the EU and Star Wars was over in my mind, and it was terrible, like I'd lost a part of myself.

I learned about the EU slowly and reluctantly. I didn't understand it at first, and I was cautious or avoidant when I discovered it in full. I adored the Jedi Knight series, though, and Kyle Katarn was my new hero. I read the Young Jedi Knights series about Jacen and Jaina and their friends, and it was really interesting to me, so I explored more EU stuff. In that way, Star Wars has never been far from my heart or mind. It was a story that didn't seem like it would ever end. Mysteriously, I never read a lot of EU material (though I know most of it from research and discussion and stuff), but I always loved learning about Star Wars and telling stories about it. I never got to experience WEG Star Wars, but I was just starting to be amazed by the world of DnD and RPGs in general when I found the Attack on Theed boxed set, which was probably the most exciting thing to happen to me in my youth - it was like Star Wars and DnD had a baby, and some fabulous human being wrapped that baby up in a visually pleasing and well-organized package and handed it straight to me. It was magic, as was KotoR when I heard about it. I remember being bummed when it didn't have the creators kit that Neverwinter Nights had, but i got over it because the game was basically perfect.

Even when it hasn't been on my mind, Star Wars has always been on the backburner, its aesthetic and philosophy shaping my life. I found new things to appreciate about it as I grew up - strong female characters (and I think that mix of strong/damsel that Leia has shows that sometimes needing help doesn't make you weak, and being strong doesn't make you perfect), moral complexity, corruption, failure, redemption, and more were hidden in the seemingly simple folds of the Star Wars legend. When FFG's game series came out, I could appreciate it in ways I could never appreciate D20 Star Wars, and I finally had a group of people I could play it with. I haven't looked back ever since.

I'm one of the minority here in saying that I actually never really cared about Star Wars. I was never a true fan and I'm still not. Not that I hated the franchise; I just didn't grok why people loved it so much.

Traditional fantasy, comic book super heroes, and horror were always much more interesting to me.

In fact, when my current FFGSW GM told the group that he was planning on scrapping the 5e D&D DragonLance campaign to run Star Wars instead I was...not pleased. That is, I complained a lot.

Eventually, the system won me over and I'm enjoying the campaign but it has more to do with my love of the metagame in gaming rulesets than it does my interest in the Star Wars setting.

I'm probably also in the minority that Force Awakens is my favorite of the movies. I think part of the reason why the earlier movies never excited me is that I simply didn't identify with any of the characters. I liked some of them, particularly the droids and maybe some of the aliens like jawas, ewoks, and Chewy, but mild interest was as far as it went.

I like Rey, though, and she definitely adds something to the movie canon that I felt was sorely missing. She's the girl that's going to punch out Cthulhu Snoke, after all, and that'll be something worth waiting for.

I'm actually a Trekkie, but I've never been one of those Trek vs Wars guys. I think each has its own flavor and each brings its own uniqueness to the genre. That being said, Trek is sci-fi and Wars is Fantasy. I've always been much more fond of sci-fi than I am of Fantasy but I like both. Star Wars is just in the middle enough that I've always had an interest in it, but I've never really dealved into the extended fiction.

I started listening to the One-Shot and Campaign podcasts and that made me really want to give games like this another shot (after a not so great experience in high school as a player). I looked into playing. A few games and really wanted to play a Trek game, but they all suck and are so number crunchy. The Campaign podcast really sold this game for me. The narrative structure, the mixed dice results, everything!

Since we started playing I've been looking up Wars info as we go, finally watching clone wars, and reading some of the other books (not many yet). I'm still more of a Trekkie, but this game has brought me much more into Wars than I ever was before.

Of and my favorite all time movie is Space Balls. I watch it 1-3 times a year.

I've grown up on it. I was born after ROTJ was put of theaters, so when it came out on TV my Dad watched them all the time. I've lost count how many times I've watched the movies.

One of my fondest memories of my dad, was in the car on the way back from a grotty Newport cinema after seeing 'Star Wars' in 1977.

I was still dizzy with excitement, and my parents were long-suffering about my infatuation for this shiny new franchise, but they seemed to think it was much better than they expected (or feared).

My dad turned to my mum and said: 'I was very impressed with that actor who played Captain Solo. I think we're going to see a lot more of him in the future.'

(not to mention my memories of my mother helping me with all the Leia cosplays and building me playsets and my very own sandcrawler out of cardboard and milk cartons...)

My parents had "bootleg" VHS Star Wars tapes, since - if memory serves - they recorded them when they came out on TV.

For many years, that was my copy as well. I can still remember the California Powerball numbers scrolling across the bottom of the screen as Vader and the Stormtroopers interrogated the crew of the blockade runner. Regular commercial breaks, all that, and then, in the climactic scene, after Luke has sent the proton torpedoes into the exhaust port, and we're watching that wide shot of the Death Star, with the tension building... suddenly it cuts away to some BS made-for-TV movie with some lady driving through farmland, looking at old ramshackle houses for about 20-30 seconds... and we cut back to the last sparks of the explosion gently floating off into space. My mom, being about as tech-savvy as a caveman, was notorious for recording over the most important parts of movies completely on accident. It wasn't until high school that I replaced that tape with the 3-VHS boxed set. Which, actually, is still my only legit copy, as I won't buy the Special Editions.

In 1977 when the first movie came out I was only 8 years old and too young to see it in the cinema. It took 11 years before I had the opportunity to see A New Hope on TV.

I was a Star Wars fanboy for most of my childhood without having seen the first movie. I did manage to borrow the first Star Wars comic from the library a couple of years later though.