I honestly don't understand how there isn't some kind of Waterworld... either action/fps mmo, ala destiny or warframe... or just some kind of mount and blade type single player game, or even Conan Exiles.
The closest thing I can even think of is Raft - Stranded Deep.
... Its mad max... on the ocean, and is basically postapoc/dieselpunk.
Bang wow zoom, fairly novel game (by modern standards) for a AAA or even AA studio to try.
King of the Hill aired from '97 to '09.
... There are too many episodes for me to be able to pick out exactly which one this is from, what year it aired in...
But uh, fairly commonplace, reasonably affordable smartwatches, with the kind of functionality described... didn't really become a thing until roughly the mid '10s.
Yes, there were earlier 'smartwatches', or things that could be argued to fall into that definition... but they were extremely niche, quite pricey.
Apple's first smartwatch didn't come out till 2015.
Smartphones, with touchscreens, did not really even exist at a reasonable price point, with significant numbers of people using them untill the latter third or quarter of KotH's seasons.
Like I still remember having some clamshell, phyiscal keyboard 'smartphone' in 08 - 09.