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Aug 26 2011 4:53pm EDT

Steve Jobs Remembered in CGI

Steve Jobs fights off Darth Vader Bill Gates in the NMA video.

Steve Jobs may have made Apple the most valuable company in the world, but you know he made the big league now that Taiwan's Next Media Animation has released a video about his career.

Here we have Jobs coming up with the idea for Apple while high on LSD, literally giving birth to the first Mac computer, fighting a Darth Vader version of Bill Gates with a lightsaber, and receiving help in the fight against Android bots by new chief executive Tim Cook—signposted helpfully with a rainbow above his head.

It's amusing, and also a little disturbing. Check it out below.

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Nicola Kean is an assistant editor for Portfolio.com.

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