N.Y.C. The Big Apple (also known as New York City) is an action game written by Russ Segal for the Atari 8-bit family and published by Synapse Software in 1984. Segal previously wrote Picnic Paranoia for Synapse. New York City was ported to the Commodore 64 by Greg Nelson. As part of a "Double Play" promotion, New York City was sold as part of a two-game combo, with Electrician on the other side of the disk.