I grew up watching Robotech. Loved it. Forgot about it until they started reshowing it on Toonami. Read the novels. An interesting aside is that I never really watched any of robotech after the macross saga. I remember renting both Macross Plus and Macross II from the local blockbuster on VHS. Both dubbed ofcourse. I remember being thrown off by hearing the Zentradi language the first time.
Never cared much about Macross until Animeigo was talking up their remastered version. That for some reason blew my mind and made me have to watch the japanese Macross. Went from watching Macross to DYRL to trying to watch Macross 7 (it never really clicked with me, but that might have just been my bootleg copy with Japanese to Chinese to English translated subtitles). Though now that I have finished Macross Frontier, I am very much gonna go back and see a properly subtitled version.
God I love this series. I just wish I could go to the local Best Buy and buy it. It really is a shame we must be pirates.