MSX2 is a home computer standard marketed from 1985 as an improvement of the MSX model. High-end models incorporate video digitizers or MIDI equipment. Numerous applications are born that take advantage of these themes: from the typical office packages to applications for dentists and even an Aerobics course. In another sense, they are standing up to the new generation of consoles (a French distributor even sold a console that was an MSX2 without a keyboard).
Among the most important companies producing MSX2 computers were Sony, Sanyo, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, National, Philips, Talent, Telematica, Toshiba, Yamaha and Daewoo.