After the completion of the music video the team would venture into their first involvement with video games when they were contracted by Sega to handle the game cinematics for Ecco: Tides of Time for the Sega CD.  Sega pleased with the work the team has done in Ecco: Tides of Time hired them to develop game art assets and cutscenes for the Sega Saturn game, Mr. Bones.

During the mid and late 1990’s the studio continued to develop OEM tech demos for equipment manufactures and developed location-based entertainment on Silicon Graphics supercomputers such as the Virtual Jungle Cruise at DisneyQuest.  Virtual Jungle Cruise debuted in June 1998 with the grand opening of the first DisneyQuest interactive theme park in Orlando, Florida.

Genyo Takeda of Nintendo was a client of Silicon Graphics and was impressed with the work being preformed by Angel Studios.  Takeda was the general manager of Nintendo’s Integrated Research & Development (IRD) division and requested an appointment with the studio to discuss a possible partnership for their upcoming video game console the Ultra 64, which would later become the Nintendo 64.  Takeda was able to work out an agreement with the studio and signed Angel Studios as a launch partner for the upcoming system.  This agreement shifted the studio’s primary focus away from visual effects work and tech demos to video game development.

Nintendo asked the studio to develop a baseball game featuring Ken Griffey Jr. for the Nintendo 64.  Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo purchased the Seattle Mariners in 1992 and wanted to capitalize on using the team’s star player to help promote and sell the sports title on the Nintendo 64.  Angel Studios had no prior experience working on anything sports related but was willing to except Nintendo’s offer.  The studio developed Major League Baseball featuring Ken Griffey Jr. which released on May 31, 1998.  The game was praised by critics and end up selling 790,000 copies. The game was considered a success by Nintendo who chose to continue the series and hired Angel Studios to develop a sequel, Ken Griffey Jr.’s Slugfest for the Nintendo 64 the following year.

In late 1997, the studio was contracted by Capcom to port Resident Evil 2 to the Nintendo 64.  Resident Evil 2 released for the PlayStation using two compact discs and fitting the game’s large data size onto a single cartridge was a tall order. Nine full time developers were assigned to the project and the studio was able to complete the port within two years.  The port of Resident Evil 2 marked the first time that Capcom collaborated with a non-Japanese video game developer.

The initiative required to condense the staggering amount of content found on the disc-based game into a cartridge was one of the most ambitious console ports of all time.  The development cost of the project ended up costing $1 million before the game was completed.   Released in November 1999, the port was considered a success as the studio managed to recreate the game in less than 10 percent of the space required for the 2-disc PlayStation version of the game.

After the completion of Virutal Jungle Cruise for DisneyQuest, Angel Studios tackled another large themed attraction, this time for GameWorks.  They created Sky Pirates VR, a pirate-themed attraction based on Steven Spielberg’s “vertical reality” system for GameWorks theme parks, starting with their Detroit location in 2000 and later expanding to other locations which utilized the vertical reality system.