Everything We Know About Jamboree TV So Far

Jamboree TV is an upgrade pack for Super Mario Party Jamboree exclusively available for the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of the game. It was released on July 24, 2025, and included new modes and a total of 20 new minigames that make use of the new console’s microphone, camera, and mouse capabilities.

You would think trying to explain post-launch content for a Mario Party game — a first for the series — would be easier, but here we are. Yes, the Jamboree got DLC and new content, but not everyone has access to it. Yes, there are new minigames, but some have accessory requirements. Yes, it is paid content, but it depends on what you already own. Lots of questions, so let’s break it all down.

Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV (yes, that’s the full title) was announced during the big Nintendo Switch 2 Direct. The plus sign adorned within the title is justified in this Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive game as Jamboree TV is an entirely separate game rather than content added to the base game. Once you boot it up, you’ll have the option to pick between the original Super Mario Party Jamboree game, the new Jamboree TV game, and the GameShare option. Think Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury and how that game separates the two right at the title screen!

Hop into Jamboree TV to find Toad hosting a game show. After all players select their characters, Yellow Toad, along with the newly added Talking Flowers from Super Mario Bros. Wonder, will present four stages to pick from. They include the camera-focused Bowser Live, the mouse-centric Carnival Coaster, an altered Mario Party mode, and a modified Free Play mode featuring most of the new minigames and a majority of the base game’s minigames.

Does Jamboree TV add any new characters or boards? Nope. We’ll detail the new features when breaking down each of the four stages, but don’t expect any new characters or boards.

Bowser Live
Carnival Coaster
Mario Party
Free Play (List of Minigames)

Bowser Live

Bowser Live is the first of four modes in Jamboree TV. Once you boot up the mode, you’ll be asked to play between two different minigame types: camera and microphone. Each mode plays out the same way, but the minigames you play and the accessories needed are different.

Each game starts with two teams of two playing two minigames selected by a roulette. There are only three minigames in each type, so there will always be one that you don’t play. Your performance during the minigames will be tallied and the team with the most points by the end wins. Pretty simple! Instead of a third minigame, you’ll play a final Bowser challenge where you try to make the most noise. If you have the camera enabled, movement counts too.

Bowser and Bowser Jr. are not playable in this mode.

Camera

If you picked the camera minigames options, you’ll play two of these three minigames:

Two of the following three minigames will be played during Bowser Live, and the selection will be determined via a roulette. The three minigames include:

	Hitting It Rich It’s just how it looks. Use your fists to smash the Question Block. Team with the most coins wins.
	Goombalancing Act Use your head to catch Goombas falling from above. Each Goomba that stays balanced at the end of the minigame earns you a point.
	Talking Flower Says Follow the Talking Flower’s commands like “squat” and “stand.” Get the most commands correct to win.

For your third and final game, Bowser will step up and put your team to the test with a voice and movement challenge. Make the most commotion to raise the meter, and the team that gets the most points wins a huge chunk of the total overall score.

Microphone

Like the camera mode, two of the following three minigames will be played during Bowser Live, and the selection will be determined via a roulette. The three minigames include:

	Bowser Chicken Work with your partner to yell “Go” to move your cart forward >Try to get as close as Bowser as you can without crossing over.
	Speak Up, Junior! Speak up to raise Bowser Jr. and collect the passing coins. The louder and longer you speak, the higher you’ll go
	Bowser Beats Clap to the beat of the music. Everyone works on the same track, so look out for your icon.

Just like the camera mode, the final game will be a shout as loud as you can test.

Carnival Coaster

Carnival Coaster is the second of four modes in Jamboree TV. This one requires you to play using mouse controls through your Joy-Con 2.

The premise is simple. Work together with two other players or four other players and ride the roller coaster through a series of rounds. Use the mouse controls to attack enemies that appear to add seconds to your time. Every time the coaster enters a pipe, a minigame is played to wrap up a round. How well you rank in the minigame determines how much time is added to the clock. This mode is very similar to River Survival from Super Mario Party.

There are five levels to pick from, each with varying amounts of rounds. We’ll add more information about each level soon.

Volcano Coaster

Sky-High Coaster

Carnival Coaster

Haunted Coaster

Trial Coaster

Mario Party

Mario Party is the third of four modes in Jamboree TV. It’s essentially the same mode from the original game but with two new rulesets and a new camera feature where players with their camera on will appear in game and have their live reactions front and center. Face icons will even adapt to certain events, like getting a Star or playing in specific minigames.

Frenzy Rules sets the turn count to 5 and gives players a boost with 50 coins, a Double Dice, and a Star right from the first turn. Tag-Team Rules splits four players into teams of two. There are a few baffling omissions from this version of Super Mario Party Jamboree. Pro Rules are not available, so you can’t play this ruleset with the resolution bump or the camera features. Minigame records are not recorded and Party Points aren’t saved either.

Frenzy Rules

In a series first, the main Mario Party mode can be played with a maximum of five turns — but this comes with a few rule changes. From the start, players recieve Double Dice, 50 coins, and one Star. A typical Last Five Turns event is added right from the start, but this time two events are randomly selected. As you would expect in the last five turns, duels are activated when landing on the same space as another player.

A shorter game means fewer bonus Stars, so only one will be awarded at the end of the game.

Tag-Team Rules

In Tag Team Rules, partner up with another player and share your coins and Stars as you run around the board separately. You’ll start the game by rolling dice blocks, and whichever team rolls the highest combined roll gets to start first. From there, each team will alternate players until everyone has moved during the turn.

This mode gets a new item! The Together Dice allows you to roll your standard dice block, but it also brings your partner directly to your space and has them roll a second dice block. The combined roll determines how many spaces both you and your partner move, and the two of you will recieve Jamboree Buddy effects. That includes double items and double Stars! Once you complete your turn, your partner will return to their original space.

There’s a new space too. The Rally Space brings your partner directly to your location. Their arrival also gets you 5 coins, just like you’d get if you landed on a partner’s space anywhere else on the board. Your partner will stay on Rally Space once your turn ends!

Free Play (List of Minigames)

Free Play is the fourth of four modes in Jamboree TV. It’s fairly straightforward. Pick and play minigames from throughout the other modes.

It’s nearly the same version of Free Play from the base game, but a few minigames are missing from the list. Any minigame from the Bowser Kaboom Squad, Koopathlon, or Rhythm Kitchen modes are not included.

There are 20 new minigames in total in Jamboree TV. Six of them are Bowser Live minigames, while the rest are used in Carnival Coaster and the main Mario Party mode. Each of the new 14 non-Bowser minigames can be played through three variations: Battle, Team of 2, and Team of 4. Battle allows two teams of two to face off against each other, while the other two variations have all players working together to score the best possible rank. Battle minigames are used in Mario Party while the team variations are used in Carnival Coaster. Shell Hockey is notably the only minigame not to have a Team of 4 variation.