After the release of Slam ‘N Jam ’96 the small development studio drew the interest of Nintendo.  Nintendo was looking to beef up their catalog of sports titles on the Nintendo 64 to be able to compete with the realistic sports titles that were being released on the PlayStation and Sega Saturn.  Nintendo partnered with Left Field Productions to publish a realistic basketball game and this time with Nintendo backing the studio as their publisher full NBA licensing was secured for the teams most ambitious title to date.

The team would spend the next 18 months developing Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside for the Nintendo 64.  Nintendo was very impressed with the development studio and on April 23, 1998 a mere 4 days before the release of Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside Nintendo purchased a minority interest in Left Field Productions to secure them as a 2^nd party studio.  The purchase of a minority interest in the independent studio allowed them to expand their operations, ensuring a steady flow of exclusive content for Nintendo.

The launch of Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside was quite successful for Nintendo selling over 1.19 million units.  Based on the games success the team immediately began the development of a sequel that released the following year, NBA Courtside 2: Featuring Kobe Bryant as well as a Game Boy Color adaptation, NBA 3 on 3 featuring Kobe Bryant.

In conjunction with the basketball games Nintendo entrusted the studio to revive one of their classic IPs, Excitebike.   After a 16-year hiatus the franchise was revived with the release of Excitebike 64 for the Nintendo 64 in 2000.  Excitebike 64 was another critically acclaimed release by the studio and was another title for Nintendo that achieved a million units sold. 

The release of Excitebike 64 was the last game the team developed for the Nintendo 64 before moving on to focus on developing for Nintendo’s new hardware, the GameCube.  On January 13, 2002 NBA Courtside 2002 released for the GameCube receiving average reviews.  The game did not meet the same success as its predecessors only selling approximately 120,000 copies.

A sequel to Nintendo’s 1080° Snowboarding was in development by Left Field Productions but development would change hands in mid 2002.  The development of the sequel originated on the Nintendo 64 but was transitioned to the GameCube once Nintendo began to phase out the Nintendo 64 for their new hardware.  In mid 2002 the project was given to Nintendo’s in-house studio Nintendo Software Technology (NST).  NST took over development of the game and on December 1, 2003 they released 1080° Avalanche for the GameCube.  It is unknown how much of the final product utilizes design elements of the Left Field Productions version before the project was handed over to NST.