The Satellaview (サテラビュー Saterabyū?) was a Japan-Only add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System released in 1995. The name "Satellaview" is assumed to be a portmanteau of the words "satellite" and "view". Satellaview was broadcast from April 23, 1995 to June 30, 2000. It continued receiving new games up until March 1999. It is unknown why the Satellaview never went international. The Satellaview was obviously planned in North America as the evidence is the unused expansion port at the bottom of the NTSC version of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.