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I certainly am old enough (39) to remember it at the theater.
A bunch of us lined up at the local mulitplex after school for the 7 PM opening show and discussed the rumours about Vader being Luke's dad while waiting.

Most of us were dismissive, but one guy kept saying it was probably true.
My reaction was 'Ohmygod! Vader is Luke's father.'.

I watched star wars so often as a child that I can't exactly pin it down.

I'm glad to say that it hasn't lost its impact over the years. And I can still remember leaping behind the couch when the Wampa appeared....

I was one of the people who saw the first airings in theatres. It gave me chills to realize what those words meant, and it was all kids could talk about for months.

I was around 10 and my mother bought me the trilogy on tapes (original versions, still have them ).
I sat down and watched ESB first, having seen SW about a year before. If I had been exposed to the plot twist before then I didn't remember so it came as a shock that Darth Vader, the big bad guy in the black suit was the hero's father. Suddenly everything that happened in ESB made sense to me and it became my favorite SW movie to this day.

I honestly can't remember any one moment where I suddenly realized the revelation and was shocked. I somehow just knew for some reason, even though I was only exposed to Star Wars when I was about ten, and specifically found someone who had the movies so I could watch them.

I think I'd read the comics before I saw the actual movie, so I wasn't surprised, but the scene was powerful nonetheless.

Edi

My reaction was pretty much the same as Luke's. I was born in 76' so I was five when I saw it. I thought Vader was lying, because I refused to believe that Luke, my hero of heroes, was the son of the most evil man in the universe.

I was born in '81 and was exposed to the movies a few times while I was still young. By the time I was old enough to make sense of the movies, that particular bit was already known to me. So basically I've always taken it for granted.

When I first saw the movie, I think I was too young to understand the import of the scene, and afterwards, I avoided ESB (kissing? Yeuck ...) until last summer. Rewatching it, I first truly felt the scene's power, and it's almost indescribable how I felt as Vader said, "No, Luke ... I am your father."