Black Screen for versions 1.5 and before

So i'd love to try out the older versions before 1.6 so I go to 1.5 and hit play and it shows up as a black screen then goes back to the menu without a crash report. So I go and check every single version before 1.5 and all of them crash. I can't send a report because there was no crash report. Plz help! Thanks, SkyKraft09.
(P.S: Sorry I chose 1.8 it wouldn't let me choose anything else.)