Nintendo Gameboy fans, rejoice! You could soon be playing the games you grew up with on new devices and mobile phones, or even on airplane seat-back screens usually used to watch movies. According to a report from IGN, Nintendo has filed a patent for Gameboy emulation software that could allow the company to market its old games in entirely new ways.

Revitalizing the popularity of old Gameboy titles could help to boost Nintendo’s earnings, which have plummeted as of late thanks to the underperforming Wii U console. The system recently got a boost thanks to the ultra-reliable Super Smash Bros. franchise, but Nintendo will still need a few other tricks up its sleeve if it is going to continue to compete with Sony and Microsoft on the video game landscape.

With that thought in mind, bringing Gameboy games back (and making them playable just about anywhere) could help bring Nintendo back from the brink of oblivion. The original Wii was highly successful because it tapped into a market that included hardcore and casual gamers alike. Giving those casual games ways to play games on airplanes or mobile phones could feasibly play into the same strategy.

Not that Nintendo is exactly sure that the seat-back display play is going to work. A company rep told IGN that seat-back displays on airplanes might not currently have the processor power to run Gameboy games. The rep did hint, though, that Nintendo was hard at work trying to develop a state-of-the-art emulator that could take over some of the workload for less capable processor systems. In other words, we will have to wait and see if Gameboy games make their way into the air.

Either way, there is little doubt that an official Nintendo Gameboy emulator is coming to mobile devices in the coming months. Such an app would undoubtedly be hugely popular, especially given the number of illegal third-party emulators that currently exist online or on the Google Play and Windows app markets.

Nintendo really should have gotten into the mobile gaming scene years ago, as its characters and older games lend themselves better to simple mobile play styles than any major Sony or Microsoft franchises. In the past, Nintendo has refused to allow its games to be played on non-Nintendo devices. However, from the looks of it, changing times and financial difficulties are forcing the company to revise is policies.