Beetle Crazy Cup

The player begins the game with a standard 1960s Volkswagen Beetle; additional vehicles become available after the player wins races and earns points. The game features 20 race tracks that include environmental elements such as rain and bright sunshine, and includes 17 vehicles that come in more than 50 different styles. In addition to original and New Beetles, the game also features the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, the Volkswagen Thing and Volkswagen buses as playable vehicles. The game includes three gameplay modes: Quick Race, Championship, and Beetle Challenge. Each mode is further divided into five racing modes, known as events, that vary the gameplay:

Buggy: a beach race in which the player must avoid wet sand.

Beetle Crazy Cup was developed by Xpiral and published by Infogrames. Miguel Tartaj, an executive producer at Xpiral, explained that the idea for the game's concept "came from doing all sorts of driving trials. VW had just announced the launch of the New Beetle and we are all 'classic' Beetle enthusiasts so we decided to focus on the Beetle and give it what it deserves: a great game dedicated just to it. The Beetle has always been very popular and people have done incredible things with it since it was first designed." Xpiral secured a publishing agreement with Infogrames after a few meetings.

Infogrames signed a licensing deal with Volkswagen to feature the automotive company's vehicles in the game. Xpiral worked on the game for two years. The game was developed with Ambush, an original 3D game engine that was created by Xpiral. The game was announced by Infogrames in December 1999. The game was released in Europe on 11 February 2000, and in the United States on 6 April 2000.

Beetle Crazy Cup received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Anthony Baize of AllGame called the game "a gem for racing fans and Volkswagen aficionados". Baize praised the game's graphics and its surf music, and wrote that the "best aspect" was the event modes. Tom Price of Computer Gaming World wrote that it "is a near-perfect replication of the unique sensation of owning and driving an older Volkswagon [sic]." Price noted the vehicles' "cartoony" graphics, "tinny and farty" sound effects, and wrote that they "handle like crap, just like a real VW," but stated that the game "has a weird fun factor" because of its various gameplay modes and diverse lineup of Volkswagen vehicles aside from Beetles.

Amer Ajami of GameSpot wrote that the different game modes keep Beetle Crazy Cup "fresh and enjoyable", but criticized the Jump and Monster events for difficulty relating to the controls. Ajami wrote that the vehicles "are modeled with a fair amount of detail and are skinned using adequate texture sizes. However, the tracks are somewhat lacking by comparison: The textures used along most of the courses are washed out, and sprite-based trees, crowds, and other outlying objects are typical throughout the entire game." However, Ajami noted that the game's graphics were "on par with similar racing games."