Of the two video game mascots, who's better Sonic The Hedgehog or Mario?

My vote is for Mario.

My vote goes to Mario, back in those days it all depended on which Games Consule you had.

My vote goes to Mario, back in those days it all depended on which Games Consule you had.


Exactly, and I was a Genesis man. The current Mario games are much better than the current Sonic games, but in my mind, there was no besting Sonic 2. The absolute speed of that game! Completely novel at the time.

I love Mario!!! My sister and I used to play Super Mario Bros. for hours on end on our little grey Nintendo (NES).....it ROCKED!!

Erin  ;D

I love Mario BUT I did not start liking Mario until the Super NES came along. I couldn't deal with him on the NES.

Mario for sure..my three year old is playing our old Nintendo 64 as we speak  ;)

Super Mario.




Howard

I loved Sonic, but Mario is an icon.

Mario is a fat plumber...

Sonic is a blue hedgehog...

I think I'll stick with the infinately cooler charactr of Sonic. Mario Shmario, Luigi was cooler.

Is nobody worried about the fact that Mario is clearly a Communist? He looks just like Stalin, in the NES game he overthrows the king (King Koopa), and in the same game lowers a peace flag and raises a flag with the red Soviet Star atop the castle at the end of each level. Am I the only one who sees this?!

I love them both, but I went with Mario.

Mario's still got great games, while Sonic's now pandering to the 'hip' crowd.  So, naturally, I lost interest.

in the same game, he lowers a peace flag and raises a flag with the red Soviet Star atop the castle at the end of each level.

I think it's a skull flag. ::)

I love them both, but I went with Mario.

Mario's still got great games, while Sonic's now pandering to the 'hip' crowd.  So, naturally, I lost interest.


Perhaps if you are under the age of twelve.

Look it'sa me Mario  :D

I loved Sonic, but Mario is an icon.


Me too. Sonic has the incredible speed (which was incredible for the time), but for sheer platform playability, yep Mario all the way.  :)

Mario. There was more to his game than Sonic, IMHO.

Tanya

it seemed like I always chose Luigi though.....I mean Mario was cool....but Luigi rocked my socks!!!!


LOL!

Erin :o

I'm gonna pick the Mario Brothers. Sonic the Hedgehog was cool too.

As you can see, I'm not a big video game fan. ::)

Mario OF COURSE!

SM Bros 3 is the best game made before 2000!

Is nobody worried about the fact that Mario is clearly a Communist? He looks just like Stalin, in the NES game he overthrows the king (King Koopa), and in the same game lowers a peace flag and raises a flag with the red Soviet Star atop the castle at the end of each level. Am I the only one who sees this?!



You may have a point there Charlie but it's only a game.nothing to cause worry. ;D



Howard

Super Mario Brothers.next year will celebrate 25 years when SMB first came onto the scene.


Howard

Mario is by far the better character....
He's been around a lot longer.
I had him on Donkey Kong for My Atari 2600, my Mario Bros for my Commodore 64, and then Super Mario Brothers for the NES,SNES,N64, and Gamecube.
The man has a legacy going......no blue hedgehog can compete with that.
I love the guy....him and all the Koopas,Goombas,Fire flowers, Tanooki suits, Mushrooms, etc...
Luigi, Princess, Toad the Mushroom Retainer!!!

"I'm sorry, but our Princess is in another castle!"

Super Mario Brothers.next year will celebrate 25 years when SMB first came onto the scene.


Howard


It has been 24 years already?

Sonic! It was all about the SEGA Genesis and blast processing!

It has been 24 years already?



Yes it has Philip.


Howard

Honestly I prefer Sonic. I have the whole Sonic collection on Gamecube now(compilation disc), it has Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic 3-D Blast, and more.  8)

Mario and Homer Simpson - the too greatest influences on my childhood.

Nintendo was always superior to Sega, look they are still one of the few companies solely dedicated to video games still around when Sega basically died ages ago. When Sega begins making games for Nintendo, who know who is more successful.

Mario is a fat Italian plumber from New York (strangely enough) or the Mushroom Kingdom; we're not sure which one. It's a me Mario!

http://members.aol.com/gallery7v/mario1.jpg

Who remembers The Super Mario Brothers Super Show from 1989? ;D


Howard

I remember, when I first got my Genesis, how impressed I was with the speed of the Sonic games as compared to the original Super Mario Brothers. So my vote has to go to Sonic.

(Not to get off-topic, but am I the only one who has a bunch of obsolete video game consoles sitting in the basement of my parents' house?  ;D)

http://members.aol.com/gallery7v/mario1.jpg

Who remembers The Super Mario Brothers Super Show from 1989? ;D


Howard




My son would more than me.

MARIO!!! Though, I'm more of a Luigi fan!! I still have some of the old super nintendo games. Such as super Mario world, the mario racing game and a few more. :)

http://members.aol.com/gallery7v/mario1.jpg

Who remembers The Super Mario Brothers Super Show from 1989? ;D


Howard




Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeattt..................... now I can't get Capt Lou or the show's theme song out of my mind!  ::)  ;D

What about the movie with Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper?

http://media.bestprices.com/content/dvd/10/208218.jpg

What about the movie with Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper?

http://media.bestprices.com/content/dvd/10/208218.jpg



That was just a dumb movie.I saw it years ago. :P


Howard

http://www.retrojunk.com/media/05ilitibnx/marioatari1983.wmv

Or from retrojunk you can watch a 22 year old clip back in the days when they were first introducing Super Mario Brothers from Collecovision in 1983.


Howard

Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeattt..................... now I can't get Capt Lou or the show's theme song out of my mind!  ::)  ;D


How in the hell did they cast Capt.Lou Albano as Mario?  ;D


Howard

That was just a dumb movie.I saw it years ago. :P


Howard


Worse than Double Double or Street Fighter?  :o

How in the hell did they cast Capt.Lou Albano as Mario?  ;D


Howard


Good question!  ;D

I loved Sonic, but Mario is an icon.


Yeah, Ronald McDonald's an icon as well. Sonic is great because I too was a genesis man, but I was also a nintendo man, through and through. And nothing bested Sonic and Knuckles. That game was too worldly. Sonic from the early nineties beats Mario (including his supporting cast) ANYDAY.

Yeah, Ronald McDonald's an icon as well. Sonic is great because I too was a genesis man, but I was also a nintendo man, through and through. And nothing bested Sonic and Knuckles. That game was too worldly. Sonic from the early nineties beats Mario (including his supporting cast) ANYDAY.


Didn't sonic hit American shores in 1991?  Mario kicks a**, 80s or 90s!

Didn't sonic hit American shores in 1991?  Mario kicks a**, 80s or 90s!


I believe so.

Worse than Double Double or Street Fighter?  :o



Yes. ;D



Howard

I couldn't even finish most of levels in Super Mario Brothers.


Howard

I liked Genesis-so Sega was cool, but overall Mario definitely rocks the house.  Anyone who had an original dreamcast vs any Nintendo system knows that nintendo outlasts it all.  Plus, they're still producing Mario games.  Sonic is still out there and available, I have a collection game on Gamecube, but it's a remake, no anything NEW.  I still have a working NES, Super NES, Game Boy Color, Nitendo 64, Game Boy Advance and a Game Cube.  The only thing I can say about my dreamcast-RIP.

8)

Mario!!!

He is in alot of games I play :)

if you're sink is in trouble you can call us on the double

oh I voted for Burgertime.  I wanted someone that might be able to do something with those mushrooms

The Mario games were superior, but the Sonic games are classic too.  8)

Mario of course ah DUHHHHHHH

Mario!!!

He is in alot of games I play :)


I played the old Mario games.

Yup me also :)

Sonic. I use to spend hours just looking at it when I played the games. Loved it so much! I think Sonic was my true love when I was ages 11 to 16.

I could have sworn there was another thread for this. Since I didn't become a die hard fan of Nintendo until I got my DS in 2006, it would have to be Mario. Too bad I missed out on Sonic's heyday. The New Super Mario Bros era for the DS and Wii were amazing, and I also liked Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy as well, those were groundbreaking 3-D Mario games. I also liked Super Smash Bros Melee and Brawl, and I liked all the Mario Kart's from 64, Double Dash, DS, and Wii. Mario absolutely owns. When I played the Virtual Console games I went back and played all the old school Mario games like the original 1985 one, Super Mario Bros 2 (Japan which is original and challenging), Super Mario Bros 2 (U.S. version which is fake), Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World, and Super Mario 64. What makes Mario even better is all the secondary games from other Mario characters the franchise have, it's like a universe, you also got Luigi's Mansion, the Donkey Kong Country series, the Yoshi's Island series, Wario series, Super Princess Peach, the Paper Mario series, and much more that the Mario franchise has to offer. So no, sorry Sonic. I'm shocked that Sonic has had so many TV shows and movie adaptions over the years while Mario hasn't had anything since the early 90's TV series. There should have been an updated New Super Mario Bros TV series or movie by now.

With the like of the new Sonic movie to be released soon, the lead in the voting may change here?

I could have sworn there was another thread for this. Since I didn't become a die hard fan of Nintendo until I got my DS in 2006, it would have to be Mario. Too bad I missed out on Sonic's heyday. The New Super Mario Bros era for the DS and Wii were amazing, and I also liked Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy as well, those were groundbreaking 3-D Mario games. I also liked Super Smash Bros Melee and Brawl, and I liked all the Mario Kart's from 64, Double Dash, DS, and Wii. Mario absolutely owns. When I played the Virtual Console games I went back and played all the old school Mario games like the original 1985 one, Super Mario Bros 2 (Japan which is original and challenging), Super Mario Bros 2 (U.S. version which is fake), Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World, and Super Mario 64. What makes Mario even better is all the secondary games from other Mario characters the franchise have, it's like a universe, you also got Luigi's Mansion, the Donkey Kong Country series, the Yoshi's Island series, Wario series, Super Princess Peach, the Paper Mario series, and much more that the Mario franchise has to offer. So no, sorry Sonic. I'm shocked that Sonic has had so many TV shows and movie adaptions over the years while Mario hasn't had anything since the early 90's TV series. There should have been an updated New Super Mario Bros TV series or movie by now.


I'm just SO surprised that there hasn't been a Mario show since Super Mario World in 1991, and even when reruns returned on the Cartoon Express in the mid-90s, I still watched it like I did when I saw it the first time. Even more considering the juggernaut that's Pokemon which has well over 1000 episodes (and counting), while the Mario shows combined have less than 100. I'd say that the 1993 movie may have alienated Nintendo from trying any additional Mario shows/flicks due to its poor box office showing.

As far as the 1990s come, I'd say it's about even, though Mario still has the slight edge, since that decade produced more fondly loved games (Super Mario 3, Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG, Super Mario 64, and the first two Super Mario Kart games. Sonic 1-3 & Knuckles and the first Sonic Adventure are classics two, but there were a lot of mediocre/poor games like Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic R, Sonic Spinball, and some of the Game Gear games. But there was certainly a moment around 1992-94 where it seemed like Sonic was definitely going to be Mario's replacement as the top gaming mascot.

Mario for me. Sonic has classics but Mario games even the old school 2D ones still hold up well and being named Mario certainly give me more of a biased. Had I grown up in the 16-bit generation I probably wouldn't have gotten into sonic lol. Many kids that generation did eventually ended up liking both.

Mario for me. Sonic has classics but Mario games even the old school 2D ones still hold up well and being named Mario certainly give me more of a biased. Had I grown up in the 16-bit generation I probably wouldn't have gotten into sonic lol. Many kids that generation did eventually ended up liking both.


Did you play the old school Mario and Mario Brothers?

Did you play the old school Mario and Mario Brothers?
Yeah on the gba tho since none of my family had a NES or Snes by the time I came along.

Yeah on the gba tho since none of my family had a NES or Snes by the time I came along.


I used to as well during the late 1980's.

I voted for Mario. Without Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog would not exist.

I would understand if a Millennial voted for Sonic over Mario. Super Mario Brothers were at their height from 1988 to 1993.

I like both equally. To me, there is no "better" when it comes to questions like this.

I like both equally. To me, there is no "better" when it comes to questions like this.


Super Mario Brothers merchandise looks better to me than Sonic merchandise.

Super Mario Brothers merchandise looks better to me than Sonic merchandise.
True, but character wise I think they're both cool  :)

True, but character wise I think they're both cool  :)


I think there is more to Mario’s universe than Sonic’s zones. Sonic wasn’t that marketable. The new Sonic movie won’t be on the level of even the 1993 live-action Mario Brothers film.