JOptionPane Spacing

Im fairly new to programming and am experimenting with a JOptionPane in my game, and Im trying to work how to have spacing between the text, so I could theoretically have the games introduction in the message window- such as;

message part1

message part2

the current code im using is;

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "This is the game", "game", JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);

but i want to display something like;

This is the game

The controls for the game are....

blah blah more text

on more than one line- how would I go about this? I know its probably a really basic error, but I honestly cant find where to find the information!

cheers people

Javagamer

[729 byte] By [Javagamera] at [2007-11-26 13:23:55]