Comment by wholemoley

If you do decide to do an evolutionary-based policy, I highly recommend messing around with NEAT (https://github.com/CodeReclaimers/neat-python).. I have successfully used it to play a number of SNES/Genesis games.

I even made a tutorial series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pClGmU1JEsM&list=PLTWFMbPFsv...

Apologies for the shameless plug.