Name This Old Macintosh Game

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I don't remember what this game was called except that it was copyrighted 1984. For details we go back to 7th grade. Typing class was a mandatory elective everyone back then had to take. For software we had "UltraKey" who's mascot was an anthropomorphic computer key.

And we had this game that all the good typers who were ahead on their work got to play. I never got to play since I never was able to meet the minimum objective of 30 words per minute, but I saw enough of it to remember it.

Anyway seeing as how this was a typing class, this was a typing game. In this game you were a a rather large space craft under attack by aliens. type in the given word correctly and your spacecraft would shoot a death ray out and destroy the closest alien. As the game progressed the aliens attacked faster and in greater numbers. When one of the aliens touched your ship, it's was game over and your space craft disintegrated into a giant cloud of Macintosh QuickDraw spray paint.

What stood out to me about this game was how you loaded it... the game was on a floppy. You would think that with the macs of the era, it was a simple matter of putting the disk in double clicking the icon inside the folder, but it didn't work that way. You had to shut off the computer and then put the floppy disk in. The game booted like it was on an apple ][. Flip the power on and it you would get the happy mac, then the "welcome to macintosh" screen for a few seconds followed by the screen going black and the game starting.

Weird