My first Mario game was Super Mario World on the SNES in 1994, so yeah, I have more history with the blue hedgehog than the red-clothed plumber 
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They at least recovered some of his reputation with Sonic Generations (although it still contains the horribad voice acting).
*points to Mario Sunshine*
People seem to remember all of Sonic's bad voice acting, but that game is kind of blocked out of memory. They remember it as a great Gamecube game but "Voice acting? It had voice acting? I don't remember that, you're lying."
Of course, one game with bad voice acting compared to.... five to seven? Pretty bad. Back in the day it was narmy, now it's getting a little annoying. After Secret Rings, I stopped getting Sonic games (until Generations), and I also stopped getting Mario games after Galaxy. Part of it was money issues though.
But who do I like better? I cannot for the life of me answer this question truthfully. I grew up with an NES and a Genesis. I had every single Sonic game and every single Mario game when I was 6, and I played all of them to death (although I never beat any Mario games. I beat the Sonic games though).
Both are very near and dear to my heart, and even though the new Sonic games haven't been that great, he's still got enough amazing games that I think he makes up for it, and he's starting to come back. Sooooo it's a tie.
