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Nintendo and Sega would know what the fans wanted if they'd just let us email them. And all seven Koopalings are playable in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and (as Crash Bash pointed out) Mario Kart 8. Though Zavok and Zazz remain the only two Zeti playable, and only in this game. Sega must have known we'd want to play as Eggman Nega for a while, yet we can only play as him in Long Jump on the 3DS version. Espio and Wave were only playable in a few games before now (some of which weren't that great)

So Sticks is technically a game character, she's just exclusive to TV canon since Sonic Boom games are in continuity with the TV series rather than the main games