If your goal is to build General AI, getting access to the game state information is cheating and ultimately self defeating because it does not generalize across games. Expert humans are able to pick up and play a brand new game with a high degree of initial success despite zero knowledge of the memory states within the game. We do this by reliance on our vast knowledge of video game and literary tropes as well as experience playing past games. I have yet to see any video game bot make use of this stuff to figure out how to play Zelda, for example.