iStoryTime co-founder Graham Farrar has spoken publicly about the need to be able to amuse their kids by handing them a device — say, while waiting in a restaurant — but finding
very little
viable and easily accessible educational content, leading to the creation of the
platform.
In any case, while it may not be a flashy demoscene release like The Adventures of Batman and Robin and may not have solidified the genre as still
viable on 16 - bit
platforms through commercial success the way Donkey Kong Country did, Rista remains a
very solid platformer on the Genesis and a
very solid 2D platformer that is, if criminally ignored by the mainstream, a well - regarded classic among those familiar with it.