The basement of Chris and Melanie Pickel’s Council Fire home would make any technophile green with envy and any Alabama fan flush with crimson pride.

“The idea here is just to have a game room, a fun room,” said Mr. Pickel. His fun room includes a pinball machine, poker table, pool table, exercise room and eight televisions, including a massive movie screen in the family’s home theater. The basement is the entertainment center for the Pickel family, which includes children Brooke, 11, Samantha, 5, and Ryan, 2.

Movie posters, including “Troy,” “The Passion of the Christ,” “Gladiator” and “King Arthur” represent Mr. and Mrs. Pickel’s admiration for epic struggle films. Much of the space also pays homage to Mr. Pickel’s love of Alabama football. The cherry wood and black leather poker table, with cup holders and matching chairs, has a Crimson Tide insignia in the middle. There are framed photos of Alabama games on the walls and a set of Roll Tide billiard balls. The bar area has Crimson Tide glasses.

Alabama’s proudest alumnus?

Not quite. Mr. Pickel is a 1990 graduate of the University of Georgia.

“I’m a Georgia fan, but Alabama is my passion,” he said.

His other passion is electronics. Along one wall of the space is the area he refers to as Mission Control.

He has 312 movies loaded into a Sony Disc Explorer and all of his music on hard drive. High-definition movies are loaded separately. There are two game systems — PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. There are two additional Xboxes and a Nintendo Wii in other parts of the house. All of the electronics in Mission Control can be accessed via remote control from other parts of the house. In other words, the Pickels never have to get up to put a DVD in the living-room player.

Perhaps the piece de resistance is the home theater — a 15- by 23-foot room complete with two tiers of red leather theater seats, a 10-foot rear-projection screen and a remote the size of a small laptop computer that controls the movies, the lights and the window shades.

“This is a place for my family and me to relax,” Mr. Pickel said. He said he spends time each night in the home theater and the exercise room, which itself has two flat-screen televisions.

The concrete floors and black-painted ceilings provide a dark, masculine look to the space.

Such an extravagant entertainment space is, of course, an investment. Mr. Pickel, a financial consultant, said he spent close to $200,000 on the entire space over two years. Much of the decor, including replicas of film props and an old-fashioned popcorn cart, were purchased on eBay.

“It’s like any other hobby,” Mr. Pickel said.