Somewhat ironically, both of those things would actually require a license as opposed to ownership

Without compromised hardware even igniting a battery is pretty implausible (unless the phone was on charge, and obviously these weren’t) as you’d need to basically short it out and this would be hard even with full bare metal access.

Pagers are famously hard to hack as well since all they do is display strings. And they aren’t on the public net, they don’t even have IP addresses as they communicate hub and spoke with a big slow RF transceiver.

Much more likely triggered by a message or long time fuse.

I play a lot of couch coop with my kid but adults would enjoy all these too. Most can be found under $20 on Steam and a lot are fairly lightweight games but have good coop mechanics and can be a lot of fun to sit down for an hour or two with.

• Overcooked 1 + 2 (but 2 really is better) you will love or hate it depending on your personalities, nothing in between. We loved it
• Ship of Fools
• Enter the Gungeon
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
• Moving Out

On Switch

• Cadence of Hyrule
• Don’t starve together (only split screen on console not PC… Wtf)
• Pikmin