Arshan
The Gucci Mining Diamonds Gang
Towns Folk
To be honest I never really liked either one of them, if I grew up in the 1990's I would have probably said sonic, but ever since sega went downhill with their sonic games and removed what made sonic cool and great I felt mario was the better of the two. I don't play mario much, as my only mario games are mario kart DS and new super mario bros, but to see that mario games are still great even today is really why I think mario is the better character.