We need Space Harrier vr! Sega if you could get on that it would be great.

In the 1980's my parents owned a small Hamburger and fry shop, think Bob's Burgers with shakes, fries and a little more elbow room. As a kid this was awesome for a couple reasons, my friends were all jealous of the fact that I could order all the burgers, fries, onion rings and shakes that I could eat and some times when my mom wasn't around (she was forever worried about cleanliness and the perception of cleanliness) we had an awesome short order cook named Greg that would let my sister and I come in the back and cook ourselves burgers and such. Beyond that we got to have class A birthday parties and there was a cast of regulars that would put Teddy and Mort to shame. One other perk that was cooler in theory than practice was free reign of the Ms. Pacman cabinet that sat in the corner. If we wrote a red s with marker on the quarter the service guy knew it was the owners kids and placed the quarter back in a pickle jar behind the counter kept full of quarters for just that reason. The real problem was in the late eighties two kids under 10 could only entertain themselves so long with Ms. Pacman. It was new enough or novel enough to hold our attention on that front and at that age I wasn't old enough to get invested in the challenge or Ms. Pacman's wicked long, sexy yellow legs (on the cabinet if not on the screen). So Ms. Pacman quickly lost its novelty in favor of Gameboy or eavesdropping on the adult talk of the regulars and the staff.
One day this all changed when I walked in and spotted something wonderfully out of place.. Our Ms. Pacman Machine was gone and in it's place sat a funny looking arcade cabinet with a flight stick...
A new cabinet was already something out of a dream... I used beg my parents to order a new cabinet and while they gave me the classic "we'll see" I was certain than as I am now the topic was never addressed with the game guy so it was already a pipe dream. But a cabinet with a steering wheel or light gun or other Gadget was too far out of reach to even trouble my naive young mind with.. I knew it would never happen. once before the Ms. P cabinet had failed and been replaced with another of the same So to walk in and see a flight stick reaching out to me and an evil dragon on the side waiting to do battle was too much.. This was a game changer and I couldn't try it quickly enough. Suddenly I found myself flying across a mis-colored chess board blasting away at robots, dragons and one eyed mammoths. then the bonus level... Enter  Uriah... in retrospect obviously a Falkor inspired Dragon who happened to be cat like as opposed to the never ending stories dog like Luck dragon.. Regardless of where the inspiration came from once you mounted the Beast you were invincible and could smash through anything on screen. I didn't understand at the time but this may have been my very first nerdgasm as I could think of nothing else for weeks. I was begging to go to work with my Mom and was crossing my fingers daily that the babysitter canceled!

As time passed so did my parents restaurant. My Mom gave birth to my baby sister and didn't have time to run a restaurant so slowly her involvement diminished until eventually they sold the place. Time passed and it was more than a fair trade. I got a great little sister that I still think the world of and my interests passed from video games (for a time) to music and movies and girls (who were often a more dangerous adversary than any one eyed mammoth or flying Medusa head).
I have occasionally thought back on Space Harrier fondly but it is a relic of it's time and doesn't seem to have a place in modern Gaming..
That is until last night.. My kids now older than I was the day I discovered Space Harrier where turned in for the night and I sat in my living room with my PsVR perched on my head thinking about the untapped potential of the hardware. Games like Rush of blood and Battlezone are very reminiscent of some of the set-in arcade games of the late 80's and early 90's and they make an awesome transition to VR but the the PsVR along with the Vive and Rift seem to lack arcade style flying games. The PsVR has a small library of any games and I spent an hour on Steam trying to find a Vive game that would let me take first person flight in an action game. Don't get me wrong, games like Eagle Flight are great and have their place but don't really satiate my desire to fly through the air blasting mutants and monsters.
Then I was watching Bob's burgers and was reminded of my own families small restaurant and the arcade cabinet that used to beckon me from it's place in the back.
Space Harrier... Imagine glancing down so see your digital legs dangling over a surreal landscape or turning your laser blaster on monsters as you fly at them with breathtaking speed..
I can think of several different control options they could implement from Gamepad to motion control to.. Dare I say it... HOTAS (Hands on throttle and stick for the uninitiated)!
Space Harrier would be a perfect fit for an arcade style VR experience. ANy one familar with the original game and modern VR would have to see it's an obvious fit.
I will now attempt to start a twitter campaign that I hope some of you will join. If you are unfamilar wit the game I urge you to check out some youtube videos and then join be in harassing sega until they get it done. I'm sure it will be that simple... Right?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgrb-mjLaM