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Most regular players didn't encounter these bugs though, as often they're edge cases that don't occur during regular gameplay. A lot of them were found by people intentionally looking for them.
I'd argue that games today are bugger than games in the past, just due to how complex they are now. Sure, they're a different class of bug (and arbitrary code execution via buffer overflows isn't really a thing any more thanks to ASLR and the NX bit), but I don't think there's fewer bugs at all.
If you've played SMB a fair amount, there is at least one that you've almost certainly ran into at random. It is exploited by speedrunners, but you've probably hit it just playing the game normally.
Pirhana plants only check the hitbox every other frame. Obviously, this is a speed optimization. At some point, you've probably gone right through a piranha plant that should have hit you. Speedrunners can and do exploit this, as well, of course.
An extension of this idea in other games is when you have split-screen multiplayer. In games like the OG Mario Kart, player inputs are processed on alternating frames. Which means the game has an average of 0.5 frames of input latency in multiplayer before anything else gets calculated in. (And people say retro games don't have input lag on CRTs; these people are wrong for a lot of different reasons).